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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

About once a year (may be more frequently) someone in the business press complains about graduates 'not being able to think for themselves' and links this to science-based subjects that reply on 'criteria-based' testing (i.e. exams).

This leads them to suggest that businesses & society in general needs more arts & humanities graduates... but despite calls like Margaret Heffernan's (in the FT today), corporate recruiters still continue to downplay liberal arts education.

In an age of uncertainty, we can’t predict the specific profile of a productive workforce. But recruiting according to immediate demands risks becoming anachronistic fast. The focus has turned to broader skills and aptitudes: the ability to invent not copy, to imagine a multitude of scenarios, to collaborate with diverse perspectives, to be resilient and adaptable.  These traits are as likely to be found in arts graduates as those specialising in science, technology, engineering and maths. It is time for the liberal arts to come out of the cold.
#education#economics
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grobi

The featured picture shows an image of our Milky Way's center by the MeerKAT array of 64 radio dishes in South Africa. Spanning four times the angular size of the Moon (2 degrees), the image is impressively vast, deep, and detailed. Many known sources are shown in clear detail, including many with a prefix of Sgr, since the galactic center is in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. In our galaxy's center lies Sgr A, found here in the image center, which houses the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Other sources in the image are not as well understood, including the Arc, just to the left of Sgr A, and numerous filamentary threads. The inset image shows a small patch recently imaged in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the effects of magnetic fields on star formation.

2025 April 14 The featured image shows the very center of our Milky Way Galaxy as resolved by the MeerKAT array in radio light. Many supernova remnants and unusual filaments are visible. At the upper right is an inset image of a small region taken in infrared by JWST. Please see the explanation in the main post for more detailed information.
#space#galaxy#milkyway
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IT News

Palantir's 'Meritocracy Fellowship' Urges High School Grads to Skip College's 'Indoctrination' and Debt - Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Pa... - news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/ #education

news.slashdot.orgPalantir's 'Meritocracy Fellowship' Urges High School Grads to Skip College's 'Indoctrination' and Debt - SlashdotStanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 "to encourage students to not stick around college." (College students must drop out in o...
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Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦

Education policy needs to be a bigger issue in the US. The lack of attention to education and the gradual reduction in education quality over the past 30 years is, imo, the main cause of American collapse.

Americans don't know their basic rights and voting power, and this is ruthlessly exploited by their leaders on both sides of the aisle to prevent Americans from standing up for themselves in the face of abuses.

Their leaders reinforce American ignorance.

#US#USPoli#Politics
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