> > University rarely teaches you the practical side and it shows.
> >
> Apart from not knowing one end of a test-tube from the
> other,

Or which end of a Soldering Iron to get hold of. I kid you not.
I spent days fighting off the Heath & Safety Gestapo because a
3rd year student burnt his hand grabbing the hot end of a Soldering Iron.

Yes he had designed, built and tested circuits - using a computer. That last
bit of information I failed to acquire before the incident, He had never
actually built a circuit using real components, but he had seen it done
once.

The University where this student came from received a forthright diatribe
expressing my opinions regarding their teaching methods. They did include
some practical after that, then we devised a circuit specification for
students to design and build which we knew worked perfectly on the computer
but would never work on the breadboard without tweaking.

For some reason the supply of students gaining industrial experience seemed
to dry up after 2 years.

Chris Carr

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