On 17 Aug 2002, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >>>>> "B" == Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> B> ... or whether it's happenned before? Is anyone aware of other
> B> contribution schemes that have resulted in a curriculum change
> B> like this in Canada?
>
> Welcome to education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
This problem is also a major contributing factor to why I'm a University
dropout. I wasn't interested in my work going towards private interests,
or in curriculum choices promoted primarily by private interests.
Cartoon University in Ottawa, while I was there, had an evangalist for
SmallTalk who went on to form OTI (Object Technology International, now a
wholly owned subsidiary of the same "first being I, the last being M").
As a student interested in interoperable vendor-indepenant ICT, I had no
place - we were almost job-training for OTI, rather than getting an
education.
OTI (and Carleton) went on to do Java, but I was already long-gone.
This is also still not relevant for someone who wanted to be doing TCP/IP
related stuff and has less than no interest in User Interface stuff.
This issue ("short-term job training, vs education to become involved
citizens") is something that I mentioned in my submission to Industry
Canada's innovation strategy. Anyone who has not sent something in may
want to include this issue in their submission.
http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml
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