Graduates are not screwed if they study engineering: James Dyson in response to Economist article
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British inventor and billionaire entrepreneur James Dyson, 78, said design and science students will hold up well in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Published Jul 06, 2025, 05:00 AM
Updated Jul 06, 2025, 10:03 PM
SINGAPORE - Today’s graduates are not doomed if they study engineering, despite a poor job market.
This belief has long been held by British inventor James Dyson, 78, who has been thinking of bringing to Singapore his company’s degree apprenticeship programme in engineering, where undergraduates earn a salary and pay no fees.
“A country’s wealth is established by engineers and scientists,” the British inventor and billionaire entrepreneur told The Straits Times in a rare one-on-one interview on June 30 at the former St James Power Station, now
the global headquarters of Dyson
, the consumer electronics company he founded.