Engineering, Physics, Chemistry etc would probably still work with 1-2 days remote lectures. The other 3 days would be lab work.
Bumping this thread as have been thinking about this over the last few weeks.
I help out with graduate recruitment at my current company (large multi-national with global footprint) and the level of competition that I am seeing now for graduate positions (we have about 50 every year in Finance) in the UK is off the scale.
The level of CVs that I am looking at is much higher this year (Top ranked University, fantastic grades, multiple internships, lots of add-on skills like Python/R) vs previous years.
Is it the same way in US and Canada?
Isn’t Python/R standard? I’ve been bashing grad students in ecology over the head with the need for these skills for almost 15 years.
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For undergraduates?
No. They usually don’t do much coding. Or if they do, its basic.
I thought you meant grad students. We pushed it on undergrads too for their stats course.
Apologies, I should have been a bit more specific.
In the UK “graduate recruitment” means mostly recruiting from people doing undergraduate degrees.
Usually in their last year, so when they “graduate” their degree course they would come to work for us.
Python/R is standard on the resumes I’ve been seeing for the last 5+ years. Most AS programs have it as a requirement, at least from the programs we recruit from.
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R definitely
Python not as much
I guess candidate pool in the UK is finally catching up the the strength of the US
Sheesh, you’d think they’d at least learn Q-basic!
Since legacy admissions were discussed earlier in this thread I am putting this here:
CA is now banning legacy admissions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/california-bans-legacy-preferences-private-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O04.8I9Z.6vgk4zDMUoUh&smid=url-share
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This is going to get very interesting.
Not sure they can ban such a thing at private Universities.
Makes sense for public Universities (as they have the legislative power for that)
I foresee this winding up in the courts.
the private universities that bask in the comfort of all those tax breaks and govt handouts? they could just make the funding and state tax benefits for such orgs contingent on compliance - then they have a choice
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Honest question… how much state support do private universities get?
I know the feds can get involved due to federally backed student loans. But how much control does a state have over such matters?
Several I know about do not get direct support (money directly to the university) . . . but there is quite a bit of infrastructure in and around those facilities that taxes (local and state) generally pay for.
And the universities are generating plenty of taxes too. Certainly sales and income taxes. Probably plenty of parking meter / ticket revenue.
To say nothing of all the businesses that are supported by the students and employees at a university… businesses who then pay more taxes.
Sometimes the downside is greater than the upside. A local university is buying up homes to use as student housing, and since they are not paying property taxes they can offer slightly more than private buyers and this is driving up the cost of housing as well as creating a crunch on the township budget since they are losing significant tax revenue.
Hmmmm, that does seem problematic. I think as a general rule they are a net positive, but perhaps not always as in the example you cite.