[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Caroline Ford]

On 7 Sep 2009, at 14:27, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Jason Clifford wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 13:51 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
>>
>>> One University lecturer who I know is teaching a database course,  
>>> most of it on MS access.
>>> A bit of MS SQL -- I suggested MySQL (which he doesn't know) and  
>>> was told that it
>>> is not what they would ever want to know. (or something).
>>>
>>
>> So the lecturer is an idiot. That doesn't mean he is running a MS
>> accreditation programme.
>>
>> That degrees are not perfect isn't news. That people are likely to be
>> using the dominant desktop platform should not surprise anyone  
>> either.
>> Still none of those things mean that vendor specific accreditation is
>> suitable for inclusion as credit in a degree programme
> What about vendor neutral ones then, CompTIA is equally useless so  
> would
> slot in well in to a degree program...

So degrees are crap if you haven't got one? Is there more to this  
thread that I've missed?

Caroline
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