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America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers

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Re: Meanwhile, here in the UK, that well known technology incubator hub....

I have a philosophy degree, but work as a software developer. My girlfriend is a doctor.

I completely agree about the arts/science divide in university. At my school, effectively the science students didn't have time to take any arts courses and any interesting science course had so many pre-requisites that no arts person could take them.

It should come as no shock that you get science graduates who can't communicate and don't understand the broader implications of their work, and arts graduates with no understanding of the physical world or rigorous reasoning.

I would strongly approve of providing more of a "classical" education, that expects people to develop a base knowledge of everything.

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