> I don't know, man. I thought a degree is pretty much a degree; nobody
> seems to care much where you got it. (Unless it was somewhere really
> famous like Oxford or Cambridge.

Look at the "Graduate Prospects" column here:

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings

Obviously enough companies *do* care - and they're apparently not just 
distinguishing between Oxbridge and "the rest".

> But that's because almost nobody goes
> there...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_enrollment

27th and 54th, seem about average size to me.

"Almost nobody" goes to somewhere like The Liverpool Institute for 
Performing Arts :-)

> By the time you reach adulthood, you have presumably given up on calling
> people names because they're "teacher's pet". Question is, how do we get
> younger children to do that...

Like I said, IME it was the ones from the bottom classes causing 
trouble. Take them out into a different school entirely, everyone's a 
winner.

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