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hear honest opinions of a teacher of students under his tutelage

. This monologue is part of a series in which people around the financial sector speak about their work life

He wrote in the blog, mentioning a very impressive resume in finance and added: "Oh, I taught economics for children who become employees through markets and concern about your project in decades, I do not believe, or at the same university for Oxbridge. '

A little later we met for lunch near Regent Park. His train was delayed for over an hour, but he seems unfazed. It is a true master, who obviously enjoys teaching the things you know are interesting to your audience. Although officially retired is still teaching and research is at least 10 years younger than his age, in the last 60 years.

"I bankers in the future that the children I teach the first year. Well, there are children, of course. Is 18 years old. But as that they grow, children feel more and more.

"I taught economics. A university like mine not to recruit students as he wants to train the next generation of bankers. Students are recruited because young people want to be economists. The Most students come from outside interests.

"Well, let me qualify this. There are about two categories of students today. There are students of English origin of the working class from the immigration were noticed in public schools because of their skills in higher mathematics. And there's the rest.

"The stereotype of upper-class people who populate the universities of Oxford and Cambridge is obsolete. This may be one or two of Eton or Harrow, at most. White students are upper middle class, middle class, working class ... Some are private schools, other public schools great.

"We will ask the students why the economy? The English born in Asia and China seem very programmed. Not directly admit to wanting to go to finance. I will say anything to be a teacher "giving something back", the campaign against poverty in the world ... The truth is that their parents take them out of the window if they do. are supposed to do in the city and improve the status of their parents in the community. Many hopes are pinned on them and they know it.

"The rest seems really interested in the field, when I can get the first year. Someone in the family can be an economist. Perhaps someone encouraged them important. You have read something of influence, collected an economist 14 years and received great interest. This category of students really interested, I call it "the newborn lamb," upwards. They're brilliant, are affable, God is so bloody nice and very concentrated. They have already jumped many hurdles and you are good at analytical thinking.

"Then I'll tell you about finances. Volume by specialization, such as investment banking is broken down into different activities. I would also say, based on my experiences through the markets Financial, which abound unhappy people - rich. but alienated social Basically my experience in the financing are reflected in his blog What is a bunch of unhappy people who have not read them all, but my feeling is that Only the banker project funding is very happy in what she did.! ago.

"So there, the study of economics in its first year and after the time of the summer. Time the Square Mile To be sure, some go away or make other such practices, but most of my students. go to a big bank. And that change begins. three weeks of practices that have already talked to someone who made £ 600,000 a year. They see the cars in the parking lot. One day, someone in the office, said, go to the party of champagne and learn to join in. So there, champagne with bankers established, alcohol relaxes people and the stories begin to flow . "Have you seen Jimmy Lamborghini? You do not? Come, come see Jimmy Lamborghini. You know what, come in a smear of chocolate on it goes. Let the chocolate stain on Jimmy Lamborghini. "

"My students will be 19 years, and again after the summer with a head full of this.

"Then there is peer pressure, which is colossal. Someone will say, Citicorp have a buffet of recruitment, they took a room in a college, are you? And a Another student "What recruitment dinner Why I did not know that? And then the other says, "here a number you can call to join the list." Students are competing all the time, "How many job interviews have? Where did you go? You went to Societe Generale [Societe Generale] Why would anyone go talk to the Societe Generale?"

"Banks are not necessarily looking to find the types mathmo ... These are really quantitative potential recruits in a group of their own and do not seem to go so far in banks. But this is not to discredit is considered a bit like a madman, if monistic, with the base-centric. To reach the top you need social skills and it is often difficult for some.

"Ultimately, most of my students go to the bank. Was it not always the case. When I started teaching, there were more opportunities for economists in government, in the council. Once senior economist in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs heard a lecture. This is one of the smartest people I've met, and my feeling is that this position is still marked almost incomparable. People like that are what might be called "beyond money" may be 120 thousand pounds, but his reputation is equal to that of the Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan.