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The Evolution of Education

August 12th, 2024, 1:52 pm

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Re: The Evolution of Education

August 12th, 2024, 7:20 pm

You didn't show the ages for which the questions were set. The 1970 question was probably for a ten-year old. The 2018 was for an unusually talented 25-year old.
 
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Re: The Evolution of Education

August 12th, 2024, 8:15 pm

It all started to go wrong around 1996 when CAD/CAM was outsourced to China and Singapore. Before that Europe had lots of design.
The CADCentre has been described as one of the most important factors in what is now known as the "Cambridge Phenomenon", - the transformation of Cambridge into a high tech centre of world renown in the 1980s. See Segal Quince & Partners. "The Cambridge Phenomenon The Growth of High Technology Industry in a University Town", 1985. 

At school in the 60s, Mechanical Drawing was mandatory.
 
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Re: The Evolution of Education

August 12th, 2024, 10:04 pm

In fairness, Rishi did his best. He knows sums.
 
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Re: The Evolution of Education

September 7th, 2024, 11:43 am

UK quit Erasmus because of Brits’ poor language skills

https://www.politico.eu/article/brits-p ... e-says-uk/

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Leake said that the “only terms on offer” for continued participation in Erasmus during Brexit talks “would have required the U.K. to pay €2 billion more than we would have received over the course of a 7-year program” — around €300 million a year.

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