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Education: UK
"Gordon Couger" wrote in message news:3e9f2a38_1@newsfeed... "Michael Saunby" wrote in message ... "Oz" wrote in message ... The (UK) Economist 19/4/3 P25 Qualifications of teachers teaching in UK percent: Physics Chemistry Biology Without degree 75 50 40 Without "A" level 30 15 25 Truly mind-boggling ..... ... It would not surprise me greatly to hear that for those employed outside education the figures are the inverse - e.g. Physics: 25% without degree, Biology 60% without degree. You actually find something like this in universities, e.g. in physics departments few if any of the technicians will have a physics degree whereas in biology nearly all will have. Schools are just another employment sector that soaks up surplus graduates, and there are more surplus biology graduates than physics graduates. The without A level figure for Physics could be misleading as I would expect most will have an A level in maths, similarly the biology teachers will probably have an A level in chemistry. There are very few jobs for some one with B.A. in physics. It is a real shame. IMO all engineers should have the equivalent of a B.A. in physic in order to understand what they do. I expect many they have. They certainly have applied maths to a level that matches BA in maths. When I was at Leeds the engineers tended to thrash the maths undergraduates in the maths papers that the courses shared. Though at the time the entry requirements for engineering were a couple of points higher than for maths, so the grades were most likely a reflection of A level grades. Though for myself I always found knowing how, and why, something is used made it easier to learn. As for employment for physics graduates, well I've always been surrounded by them so I'd never really given much thought to where else they might work. Certainly maths, physics and engineering were always favoured by employers for the more challenging work in IT over computer science graduates and the various business related IT courses - 'cos they can do maths. Michael Saunby |
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