On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 23:16 +1200, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > You're forgetting one crucial detail. The people making the decisions > now, are not the same ones back then.
Not forgetting at all, but may be didn't make the point as well as I should. All universities are not the same. There are the leaders and there are the followers. Follower university departments emphasise job opportunities much more than leader university departments. The old university/polytechnic split in the UK used to highlight this very well. Leader departments value pedegogy and concepts much more than follower departments. Sadly in many cases this got labelled as "academic" vs "practical" which remains a very unfortunate way of categorising things. > I have repeated what I was told using all the same arguments presented > in this thread and I am only relaying it here their response. It isn't > my opinion. Understood. I will always say job opportunities is a secondary factor, just not a primary one. Except that in some follower departments they do not accept this, they are more about training and less about education. For them job opportunities are everything: training not education. -- Russel. ========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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