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Retired Operational Researcher/Statistician/Economist. Worked in Energy Industries/University/Civil Service. Most recently producing UK Energy & Emissions Projections. GNU/Linux user since 1993 (kernel 0.99). Now on Devuan Daedalus/Cinnamon (kernel 6.1). Rower, cyclist, dingy sailor, walker, skier. Socialist, bi, poly, she/her. Fully paid up member of the Guardian reading, tofu eating Wokerati.
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Retired Operational Researcher/Statistician/Economist. Worked in Energy Industries/University/Civil Service. Most recently producing UK Energy & Emissions Projections. GNU/Linux user since 1993 (kernel 0.99). Now on Devuan Daedalus/Cinnamon (kernel 6.1). Rower, cyclist, dingy sailor, walker, skier. Socialist, bi, poly, she/her. Fully paid up member of the Guardian reading, tofu eating Wokerati.
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Feb 20, 2026
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us my own observation from when I worked in a university some 20 years ago is that because of financialisation of HE universities have been incentivised to make available place on courses which are popular with prospective students (who are not always well educated of job opportunities in their preferred subject) even when the unversities should know better. Back then Computer Games had suddenly become popular but the games industry didn't employ that many graduates and in fact lots of universities jumped on the same bandwagon and offered courses.
Also the university then taught some fairly some rigorous software engineering which while it was material that would be need to be able to build computer games was not what the new students were expecting or well prepared to learn.
So many failed to complete their degrees and for those that did there weren't that many jobs for them in what they had trained for.
This was 20 years ago but I'd be surprised if the situation has improved since.
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