Re: The end is nigh

On 2007-06-26, Peter H. Coffin <hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:16:21 GMT, Stuart Lamble wrote:
"Oh, that's not a problem, we have bridging courses."

Whisky Tango Foxtrot, over? I would have thought that mathematics
- even dumbed down mathematics - would have been an essential
pre-requisite to engineering. Now, I could understand adding on
another year as a kind of "pre-eng" year to bridge the gap, but
still...

The young lady has proven to the sub-dean's satisfaction that she can
study and learn something. She may still have no ability to learn
engineering, but she's still ahead of the n00b freshmen that haven't
proven ability to study yet.

I'll give you that point. However, the structure of the course is such
that she would have been doing the bridging courses at the *same time*
as other subjects that need a basic understanding of differential and
integral calculus (to recall one specific example off the top of my
head.)

It's entirely possible that she would knuckle down and learn what she
needs to know to pass those other subjects. I'm just thinking of the
typical first year student's year at university, with the copious
amounts of alcohol, partying, and general lack of anything related to
actual "study". Or maybe that's just the Halls of Residence ...

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