Dear All,
the situation described by Barry Law is the same as in Italy!
Every level of schooling shows, over the time, decreasing levels of
knowlwdge.
Chiara Bonetto
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Subject: sadness
> Dear All,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this but I just needed
> someone to talk to.
>
> I wonder whether anyone saw University Challenge last night. I felt really
> sad after the program when the students fail to answer a single question
> right when they were given an equation and they had to say what shape it
> was. Maybe it's because the shapes were really complicated and you would
> need post-graduate qualification. But alas it was a circle, exponential
> curve and (wait for it) a straight line.
>
> I know that it was't the subject they were studying but I would have
> thought anyone going to university would be able to recognise a straight
> line equation, at least. It has somewhat changed my thoughts as to the
kind
> of people that we want to recruit.
>
> I just hope that it doesn't reflect the state of students going into
> university and indeed coming out of university.
>
> Barry Law
> Pricing & Statistics Manager
>
>
>
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