[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Hari Sekhon]

- Tethys wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Hari Sekhon<hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Academia tends to hide away from the business world rather than trying
>> to foster skills that businesses would actually want to pay for
>>     
>
> Interesting. I've found quite the opposite. Academia has thrown away
> many of its principles in the effort to chase skills that it thinks
> businesses want. That's why they're churning out endless streams of
> Java programmers that lack a basic grounding in the underlying subject
> and who will be screwed when Java's star fades and they need to switch
> to something else.
>   
Yes, think about this for a minute:

They are churning out endless streams of Java programmers... How many 
Java jobs are there out there?
Are they teaching Java to a professionally competitive standard?
What does offshoring of development to India mean for Java jobs?
So why are they sending the lemmings off that cliff...?

They're not tracking the real world closely enough. How many 
institutions honestly evaluate the careers of their students and make 
appropriate recommendations before taking their money? (but then they 
wouldn't have students paying them for comp sci courses, would they? - 
and those institutions need people to take courses to earn their money 
so there's a conflict of interest there)

-h

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Hari Sekhon
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