| ??? 05/09/09 15:01 Read: times |
#165199 - More details. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Joseph Hebert said:
... you'd been streamed into "science" or "arts" ... Once upon a time, "arts" and "science" went hand in hand in higher education. Sorry, I should have explained a little more - you have to have other entry qualifications, gained when you were 16 years old, called "O" levels. These, which include English Language, literature, history, geography, RE etc....had to be passed to an acceptable standard, and with your A level results to be allowed to do your degree. If you were art streamed, you might for-go a physics qualification for one in German for example. So here, you don't "major" in EE or whatever, you go for 3 (now 4 years) and do nothing but EE or whatever and the assumption is that your other education is OK. CP Snow is revered in the UK for his condemnation of our "two culture" system - that of the scientific and the artistic. To have no artistic education is frowned upon very heavily. To be pig-ignorant in science and maths is worn as a badge of honour by many here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures Steve |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Bsc or BEng? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The Internet is a poor fourm for this. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| UK | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It has always been 4 here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 4 years | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Education differences | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
More details. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| local resources of information | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Arbitrary | 01/01/70 00:00 |