Engineering and arts graduates prominent among New Zealand achieversSTACY SQUIRES/STUFF Stuff spoke to students at the University of Canterbury after a lecturer's teaching slide claimed: "If engineering was easy, they'd call it arts instead." Arts and engineering graduates - both are making major contributions to New Zealand's highest levels of achievement. Engineering graduates are widely represented among New Zealand's successful businesspeople, chief executives, entrepreneurs, inventors and politicians. New Zealand university arts students can major in subjects including languages, history and geography, economics, mathematics, education, political science, international relations, statistics, psychology, music, criminology, religious studies, and computer science. Magnate Sir Bob Jones famously prefers to employ arts graduates for their broad knowledge, imaginations and inquiring minds.

Source: Stuff February 23, 2018 07:18 UTC