The charts below show the qualifications of staff in an advertising company in 1990 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given pie charts illustrate the percentages of employees with different academic qualifications in an advertising company in 1990 and 2010.

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despite the level of degrees, the proportion of workers majoring in science was higher than that in arts, and the primary change in these years was the increase in the staff with doctorate degrees and a corresponding drop in those with a first

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. Specifically, in both years, employees with a master’s

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constituted the largest share and the figures basically

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off at about 30% (MSc) and 20%(MA) respectively. As for those who had a first

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, their sum was the second highest in 1990 at 35% yet it plunged by 22% in 2010, especially the workers with an undergraduate

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arts, whose proportion dropped from 15% to only 2%.

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holders accounted for an insignificant part at first with only 13% (

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of science) and 2% (

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of arts).

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, the figure for the former rose sharply to 30%

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that for the latter slightly to 5%, making them altogether rank the second position in 2010.