On Friday 26 Sep 2003 2:50 pm, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 9:39 pm, you wrote:
> > > Ohio University is pretty similar.  If heavily loaded you can do it in
> > > 4 years, but it's a lot easier to do it in five.
> > > Robert Mash
> >
> >Of course, in the UK, honours degree courses last three years, but i guess
> >we
> >just work harder or are naturaly smarter, or have a better secondary
> >education system ;-)
> >
> >Ian
>
> If I had to guess, I'd say you probably didn't have to take two health
> classes,
> three english classes, a speech class, a foreign language, or any of the
> other
> non-engineering bunk that I had already covered in high school.

Nothing like that although we did have 'the engineer in society' and
'presentation skills' which at least were relevant.
>
> I probably spent $5000-$6000US on books and classes that were essentially
> just repeated information from my high school education.  That irks me.
>


Why do they do this.  Is it due to variance in educational standards or what?

Ian

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