No disrespect to the chief executive of Tesco, or to its employees, but he's working for Tesco... It's not where all aspiring graduates are aching to work. I'd say the vast majority of his workforce work there as a necessity, not because of his company's Nazi like regimes with employees and massive cost cutting on the staff front.
Where degrees are becoming so common, many companies are now using them as shortlisting tools for recruitment. In many of these jobs, they don't need someone with a degree - let alone one that is relevant. But all they want is a degree of any way, shape or form. Easy to write off a large number of applicants that way.
Granted, people should have a basic level of education, but being able to do that is becoming more and more difficult - particularly in many over-populated areas with very mixed intakes.
You can have some schools in London that have more languages spoken in them than many small towns! You can also have some schools that are in areas where there's a mixture of children from very poor families (usually expected to achieve less well) and some from families on moderate incomes. These are just two examples in a long list.
I'd like to see Sir Terry and Tesco give a good education. Perhaos they could have schools that belong to the finest range?
And I nearly spat out my drink when I saw hmallett's comment about police and donuts as I am watching Traffic Cops and they were trying to solve a mystery over who at all the donuts in the station

