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Category: Learning & Careers

Advice on personal professional development, life-long learning, transferrable skills, flexible working, remote working and hybrid working from business experts

What The Ivy League Sells Is Other People

Economists have spent years trying to explain why an Ivy League degree is worth roughly $101,000 more per year a decade after graduation. The answer they eventually found, after stripping out instruction quality, alumni networks in the conventional sense, and prestige signalling, was peer environment. Who you are in the room with.

Why France, Argentina and Mexico Won’t Win The World Cup

Neither France, Argentina, or Mexico, are likely to win the 2026 FIFA World Cup Between 2006 and 2022, not a single World Cup winner collected maximum points in the group stage. Brazil in 2002 is the last champion to win every game on the way to the title, and that was twenty-four years ago. Why does the pattern exist, and will it make a difference this year?

Who Would Win In A World Cup Of Universities?

Have you ever wondered what the World Cup would look like if it was based on the prestige of the countries’ universities rather than their footballers? What if it the star player wasn’t Messi but Marx? Not Neymar but Newton? Welcome to the World Cup of Universities.