Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said education in Britain is holding back the country’s chances of success in the digital media economy.He made his comments at the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.Dr Schmidt said the UK needed to reignite children’s passion for science, engineering and maths.
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The chairman of Google has delivered a devastating critique of the UK’s education system and said the country had failed to capitalise on its record of innovation in science and engineering.Delivering the annual MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Eric Schmidt criticised “a drift to the humanities” and attacked the emergence of two educational camps, each of which “denigrate the other. To use what I’m told is the local vernacular, you’re either a luvvy or a boffin,” he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/26/eric-schmidt-chairman-google-educationGoogle chief lambasts the UK for its technophobic ‘luvvie’ culture
The executive chairman of Google has lambasted Britain as a society that favours “luvvies” over “boffins” and warned that unless it takes action to support science in education and business “the UK will continue to be where inventions are born – but not bred for long-term success”.Painting a bleak picture of Britain’s future as a hub of technological innovation, Eric Schmidt said he was “flabbergasted” that computer science was not a standard subject in British schools. “That is just throwing away your great computing heritage,” he said.
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