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"A degree is just paper". Yep, that is what she said. The "she" in question is an aspiring blogger who can not string two sentences together despite claiming to have a UK degree. We were discussing the relevance of education to social mobility and that was her summary like a thunder bolt from Nigerian striker Musa's right foot. Even though she said it spitefully, if the truth be told she scored me there because flustered as I was she does have a point. Only recently no other person than the US President Barack Obama, himself a living proof of the ability of education to throw a man to the pinnacle of opportunity received shtick for apparently criticising liberal arts degree . Sadly in the case of this blogger I was the engineer and she was the liberal arts type yet what did she really mean? What did President Obama mean? As a side note the traditionally antagonistic Republican party commended Obama's remarks. Talk of friends in low places. Truth is that...

"Excuse me sir. Excuse me sir" said the little boy in the men's toilet at the Chinese Buffet in Wood Green, North London. I froze as if unsure that the young child could be talking to me and slowly looked around the toilet to be sure that there was no one else.  It had to be me then! This was Saturday, one day before Father's Day and two days before the Nigerian football team jokingly named 'Super Eagles' refused to fly let alone be super. I mean this is London. Kids are not allowed to use the toilets by themselves so I wondered if he wanted his adult minder or parent or guardian, "Sorry are you speaking to me" still unsure I asked. "Yes sir". Now any man will tell you that there are three unspoke rules in the men's lavatory: (A) do not look at anyone. (B) do not talk to anyone and (C) definitely do not touch anyone. Somehow this 4 or 5 year old boy had broken the first two and I could not trust him on the third. Stepping ba...

The 28th Girne American University graduation has come and gone. It was a sight to behold. More importantly there were a few takeaways directly related to my quest to see more people win funding for their education. My flight through Belgrade to London is boarding so watch this space. Yes its 5am in Larnaca.

Hello everyone, It is clear that opportunities abound from the simple to the profound but the question remains "where may they be found"? Week after week this blog presents opportunities to win scholarships, opportunities for career advancement and opportunities to improve yourself. If something is free does that make it cheap? Not at all. Some of my readers were born in developed societies and can not imagine a life without choices or freedom. Yet some of my readers were born in other restrictive societies with only the "illusion of choice". How do these two worlds converge? Last week we looked to Argentina as a metaphor to gradual decline. Today we consider the emerging events in Ukraine as as how to realise opportunity. Ukraine is one country that is at the heart of Europe but also at the borders. It is a country that is too far East to be in the European Union (EU) but also too far West to be a Russian vassal state. The fact is that Ukraine is torn between ...