Activity 6. Are grades at postgraduate level irrelevant?

Name: Monica Marcela Tinjaca

1. Who are the following people in the reading: (1 point).

 Natasha Clark: journalist and writer of this article

 Kaammini Chanrai: Masters student at London School of Economics.
 Jamie Pett: economist who works for a humanitarian think tank in Zanzibar,
Tanzania
 Jonathan Higgs: Warwick graduate who works in information systems for EDF
Trading.
 Rob Fryer: head of student recruitment at Deloitte

2. Based on the information of the reading “Are grades at postgraduate level

irrelevant? “, write a list of five logical inferences   (2 points).

P1: More and more students are choosing to extend their studies

P2: acquiring postgraduate degrees makes us more employable

C: studying a master's degree allows you to acquire a job.

P1: It matters more is where your master's degree is from

P2: qualification is not important to employers

C: studying at a good and recognized university allows us to access better job offers

P1: qualifications serve to differentiate person to person

P2: employers interview multiple candidates with the same qualifications

C: a job must be fought with other candidates through good grades

P1: qualifications serve to differentiate person to person

P2: employers interview multiple candidates with the same qualifications

C: a job must be fought with other candidates through good grades

 P1: qualifications don't matter to get a job.
P1: In the postgraduate, their skills are directed to adapt to the new work context
P2: employers take into account experience and location in the industry
P2: companies seek new knowledge
C: a job must be fought with other candidates through good grades
C: studying for a master's degree provides the opportunity to be more successful when landing a
job

2. Complete the sentences with the words or phrases in the box. There are three
extra. (2 points).

Employable - Undertake - Globalization - Module - Differentiate - Reputation

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Dissertation - Skill - Job - placement - Experience - Qualification - Measure

1. Dissertation is long essay on a particular subject, especially one written

for a university degree or diploma.

2. Module is each of a set of standardized parts or independent

units that can be used to construct a more complex structure.
3. Skill is the ability to do something well.
4.Qualification is a pass of an examination or an official completion
of a course, especially one conferring status as a recognized practitioner of a
profession or activity.
5. Reputation is he estimation in which a person or thing is held,
especially by the community or the public generally.
6. Experience is the process or fact of personally observing,
encountering, or undergoing something.
7. Job is a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part
of the routine of one's occupation or for an agreed price.
8. Measure is to change; alter.
9. Differentiate is to warrant or guarantee.
10. _ placement _is the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.