On Dec 7, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: [..]
[..]As a controversial afterthought, it seems to me that UK degrees are being downgraded to bring them in line with the more vocational US degrees. At present I think I'd sooner have earned a German BSc than the one I actually have.
I'm rather afraid I agree with Dixon on the mostly useless nature of american academics, and unpleasantly in the area of computer "science". But I will confess that for tactical reasons I opted to actually blow my GI beni's and pick up a BS CompSci degree, which really was a bit of a lark.
Nothing like trying to explain to CompGeeks that actually, no there are integers larger than one can fit into an 8-bit representation of them...
So there are a series of problems that a mere "College Degree" will not fix. The problem for so many these days is the presumption on the part of too many employers that a "college degree", even a CompSci degree, will indicate something.
ciao drieux
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