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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (438255)	12/4/2008 8:38:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573941

Ted, Excuse me, who decided that Europe knows what courses should be taught at the university level? Besides, students track differently in Europe vs the US. Are you kidding? These courses are prerequisite you need to enter some engineering courses. What courses did you have that American students did not have? And to what American university did you go? I am not even talking about re-medial course offered in many colleges, such as trigonometry, pre-algebra, algebra. I am talking Calculus. In my college, I had 3 Calculus courses, and majority of material covered there was my high school math from Europe. Then, I said to myself, I am not wasting my time on this stuff, bought a Physics textbook (for the Physics I and Physics II), and found my high school level stuff again, so I just took the finals, without attending any of the classes (it saved some $$$). This means that American Engineering students need to take 4 to 5 courses of European high school material, spread over 3 to 4 semesters before they are ready to take some of the Engineering courses that have this material as a prerequisite. Now, consider that some of the Asian countries are surpassing European educational levels, and you will see the magnitude of problems yet to come. They are our competitors. Joe