On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:08:35 GMT, Rob
wrote:

There's plenty of evidence of discrimination on grounds of race, gender,
class, sexuality and disability for example - so that's always going to
skew things. But this all becomes vicious - it'd be daft to dissuade
someone from studying engineering because they're going to face
discrimination when it gets to the job interview.

But these days the discrimination is more likely in FAVOUR of the
lame-duck categories.