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An SDR or DDS question?
On 09/02/16 20:46, Roger Hayter wrote:
Brian Reay wrote: Roger Hayter wrote: snip Well that's yet another difference. Until the great dumbing-down of university courses in the UK in recent years,[1] first degrees tended not to be modular, and the department of the primary subject arranged lecturers in necessary ancillary subjects as part of the main course. [1] which doesn't apply to all universities. A stunningly inaccurate statement. It was possible to take different modules in top rated Universities (from a selected list) to get a degree 40 years ago. Including Oxbridge. Things like PPE, or PPP you mean? Whatever the theory, in practice you couldn't dream up your own combination, there were some established ones It still is. True, you couldn't mix, say, engineering and tourism That of course is what I meant. You couldn't do a Keele style degree of knitting, Serbo-Croat, media studies and physics. I wasn't trying to imply that their was no choice of modules in a subject. The point I was making, of course, that things like computer programming for chemists, while taught by the subject experts, was part of the Chemistry degree, not a separately credited module. Roger, rather than trying to back pedal, just admit you were posting nonsense. If they were not modules, what were they? Even if they were called 'units', 'blocks', or whatever, it is irrelevant. Even now, there are plenty of degrees which don't allow wild and wonderful combinations of modules. What happened, were you replaced by someone younger and better qualified and it has made you bitter? -- Now we've developed the technology to 'chip' and track every dog, why not extend it to sex offenders. |
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An SDR or DDS question?
Brian Reay wrote:
Roger, rather than trying to back pedal, just admit you were posting nonsense. If they were not modules, what were they? Even if they were called 'units', 'blocks', or whatever, it is irrelevant. Even now, there are plenty of degrees which don't allow wild and wonderful combinations of modules. What happened, were you replaced by someone younger and better qualified and it has made you bitter? In your eagerness to make bizarre rude remarks about me you seem to forget we were both on the same side in the originai discussion, which was when someone expressed surprised about a Fortran course in a Chemistry degree. You seem to have gone off at a tangent somewhere. I must take more care about not replying to you, I suppose! -- Roger Hayter |
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An SDR or DDS question?
On 2/9/2016 4:52 PM, Roger Hayter wrote:
Brian Reay wrote: Roger, rather than trying to back pedal, just admit you were posting nonsense. If they were not modules, what were they? Even if they were called 'units', 'blocks', or whatever, it is irrelevant. Even now, there are plenty of degrees which don't allow wild and wonderful combinations of modules. What happened, were you replaced by someone younger and better qualified and it has made you bitter? In your eagerness to make bizarre rude remarks about me you seem to forget we were both on the same side in the originai discussion, which was when someone expressed surprised about a Fortran course in a Chemistry degree. You seem to have gone off at a tangent somewhere. I must take more care about not replying to you, I suppose! The issue was not a FORTRAN course in a Chemistry degree. It was a FORTRAN course provided by the Chemistry department - and that by "professors" who didn't know FORTRAN. But then trolls never learned to read. They just contradict things they know nothing about. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry, AI0K ================== |
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