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Thread #150374   Message #3504775
Posted By: Allan Conn
17-Apr-13 - 09:48 AM
Thread Name: Newcastle Folk Degree
Subject: RE: Newcastle Folk Degree
"employ mainly graduates in the wine trade, i.e. those who have done, are engaged in, a degree course in Wine Studies."

Well our wine club has had three presenters from the Edinburgh and Berwick branches and none of them took degrees in wine studies. The only trianing they'd had on that was in-house. Seemed to be any degree would do as long as you had a degree. My wry comment was made because let's face it if you'd spent years studying to take up law or be an architect etc then you may be glad of a job behind a counter selling wine but would it really be what you wanted? That was in realtion to someone pointing out that music graduates sometimes end up doing non-musical things. It is no difference really. It also shows how hard it is getting for youngsters without degrees. I mean yes people facing the public should be knowledgeable but does 'everyone' in that position within a shop need a degree to for that to be so? I don't think so. In fatc the reason that the Majestic people brought that up during the presentations was because it is quite unusual.