[BITList] Woman as explained by engineers

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Frank,

It should be Woman = Time + Money, but never mind - the rest works out OK. On engineers, there is a curious view of them in the Independent, in a letter from James Dyson, he who invented a different vacuum cleaner.  

He says, "The graduate pool for intellectual property generation is shrinking ; while Britain has 37,000 engineering job vacancies, it produces just 27,000 engineering graduates each year."  He goes on to gloss over his decision to have his machines assembled in Malaysia by "business evolves". His thesis seems to be that universities make engineers, and that they develop gadgets of some saleable shape and colour that can be sold in great quanitities from production lines in the Far East.  How widespread is this myopic view?

Hugh.

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