Training Toolkit

Story: Treasury looks to replace HCI

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The Governement has no idea about how to train our population in IT skills. They think that an NVQ is a pretty neat idea.

The problem in the UK is that the lowest common denominator is seen as the level to aim for. We drive down standards by worrying about what the least able will be capable of. This creates a lead weight that slows the whole process down.

Training or cash-cows?:-
If the level of training is aimed at Btec, NVQ and A+, then we really are lost, and we will lag behind other nations that take IT knowledge and skills more seriously. Training companies love this, it's a quick and easy profit with little effort.

The wrong trousers:-
Understanding how to switch on a computer is less than productive in my view. We should raise the level of teaching in schools, reduce the the number of academic courses that parade as University computing degrees and introduce some practical engineering technologies. Put a limit on the number of 'media' courses, and start to look more seriously at producing people who actually understand the core technologies that drive networks. It's networks and their application and applications that matter, not whether one can produce a rather 'nace' Flash advert.

Too many bits of paper:-
I know many, many people with university degrees in computer science, who can't put an RJ45 connector on the end of a Cat6 cable. I know many people with MCSE certification who don't know how to install and configure a server for a particular role.

We've lost the plot. Our focus is way off centre. We need to teach people the real core technologies and not be scared to insist that they must learn them and know how to implement them.

Certification is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Wake Goevernment - your sleep walking with fools.

Thank you. I feel better now.

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