50% of kids go to university. 50% of kids are above average IQ, 50% of kids are below. Not all intelligent kids wish to go to university, therefore there are kids with below average IQ at university. :? Worrying, really.
phil.p":nvya743m said:50% of kids go to university. 50% of kids are above average IQ, 50% of kids are below. Not all intelligent kids wish to go to university, therefore there are kids with below average IQ at university. :? Worrying, really.
Certainly - but you are not doing a STEM degree, are you?Rhyolith":2cx3irq6 said:On the subject of 'easy' GCSE papers. Why does this matter? I suck at maths and to be honest would have struggled with even an easy paper like that (& did). Yet now I have lived in the 'real world' for a while I have not found my lack of maths skill to be a problem in the slightest... indeed the only thing related to this that was a problem was the limitations imposed by my mediocre grades in maths.
Rhyolith":3j3qpsji said:I don't know what a "STEM" degree is, so no!
Sawdust=manglitter":1yvrdxfk said:... Because of the practical work experience I had I was a much better engineer once I graduated compared to the geeky academic types who had never even had part time jobs.
Given the level of customer complaints and newspaper reports, it looks like it's already getting by!!Cheshirechappie":1ogodoc5 said:Yes, I was being serious. Do you think the country would be better off without sewage collection, treatment an disposal?
With equal respect - I work in Civil Engineering for a water utilities company.Cheshirechappie":1ogodoc5 said:With respect, I'd appreciate it if you read the whole comment again, instead of selectively editing it and making snarky remarks.
Tasky":36jp8ak0 said:Questions?
HappyHacker":1qww0awe said:I feel very lucky to have failed my 11+ and attended a good secondary modern school. The woodwork teacher canned you if you pushed your luck or if he was in a bad mood, but I learnt a good deal about woodworking. The metal work teacher came from industry and tried his best to get the better students into engineering, arranging visits to local engineering companies so that we could see what the different jobs entailed. He even got us into a steel works where we saw the blast furnace tapped, no H&S worries then so we stood next to the flow of molten steel running along a channel in the sand floor. Our blazers looked sparkley when we were under street lights later that night from the tiny globules of steel that had settled on them.
At a school reunion 50 years on the majority of us have done reasonably well despite attending a secondary modern which according to modern thinking were a dumping ground for the thick.
Yeah, I'm finding a lot of people on this board who really don't get it.... from jibes and jests, to basic, obvious wordplay and even puns, they somehow get all serious and start bleating about personal attacks, snide remarks and so on.... IT'S A FYKIN' JOKE, man... Worse still, even after I explain how it's a simple, non-personal joke directed purely at the humour in a word, they carry on thinking up ways to be all offended.... It's a pun - How does anyone expect me to believe they are personally offended and morally attacked by a pun???!!!!!Cheshirechappie":vx3a5kl1 said:You hate your job. OK - but why take it out on me? Maybe you were just letting off steam, but it came across as you having a right go at me and my comment, which I feel is somewhat unwarranted.
Yes it does, and no they don't, but since much of that is now an imported skillset (similar to nursing) it probably won't be worth focussing on until the roles they'd eventually (hope to) occupy actually pay a salary sufficient to make it a worthwhile career.Cheshirechappie":vx3a5kl1 said:I was trying to make the point that the country needs people with engineering skills, both 'theoretical' and 'practical' just to keep normal life as we now take for granted ticking over, and that our education system doesn't seem to appreciate the need to keep a supply of suitably qualified and motivated people coming through (though some people at the sharp end of education most certainly do).
Serious reply - I'm not an Engineer, I'm a Technician and a very specific one within a very narrow field of high specialisation. If I want to change jobs, either someone in the new position has to die, or I move to another country. As is, I'm one of less than a hundred who have ever held my specific set of qualifications, which took almost 10 years to attain, and there are only three such people in our company of about 8,500... one of whom has to be hired in.Cheshirechappie":vx3a5kl1 said:Serious point - if you're that cynical about what you do for a living, it may well be time to change jobs. Trust me; I speak from bitter experience. It's also the case that the country is short of engineers, so it shouldn't be impossible to find another opportunity somewhere different. A change is often as good as a rest.
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