School Days"The best years of our lives," somebody lied. Tell us the funniest thing that ever happened at school.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 12:19)
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Now you come to mention Civil Engineering ............Friend of mine does some part-time lecturing at a local uni and on the first year of the B.Eng degree course he spends the first six months getting all the students to an acceptable level of maths skills.
He reckons even those students who got an A at maths A level have huge gaps in their overall knowledge and comprehension of the subject - calculus is no longer taught at GCSE level and is skipped through in half-a-term at A level.
First time he wrote dy/dx on the board half the class thought it was a new rock band.
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