On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:20:13 +0100, Brian Reay wrote:

One wonders why, with so many areas of poor understanding, remedial
action was not taken earlier? Or indeed how they arose in the first
place. Were lectures skipped? Assignments completed? How could someone
with such gaps work in a professional engineering environment and
maintain the confidence of his colleague and superiors?

The Kurious Kase of the half-baked Bean?