I heard some news over the weekend .... as an example of a national trend ...
I heard over the weekend that Western Sydney TAFE were having their students snatched away before they even graduated (doing webby stuff). considering TAFE diplomas are usually 18 months long (half that of a degree), it seems the training model that TAFE was designed for is working to plan ... the other side of the coin, of course, is falling numbers of students actually electing to study computing stuff as a career. An ad hoc sample of a bunch of ex-High school students graduating last year, not one is doing any direct form of IT. The closest are 3 engineering students and two for film/television. and yet: http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/03/02/devine-digital-design-and-media/ go figure... On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know RMIT at least teach XHTML. Java, C++ and PHP. > > Regards > Dale Fraser > http://learncf.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > > Of Joel Cass > Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 1:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Wanted: junior css/html ninja > > > I think there are a few ninja schools in Australia but I don't quite get > how this is related to coding, but whatever. > > Uni is good but I don't think they teach HTML directly. You may hire > people who think that HTML was invented by MS-Word. > > TAFE does teach HTML, they even have subjects devoted to it. > > But then again you can learn how to HTML in your bedroom with some good > resource. > > Perhaps just looking for someone with a website, a bit of enthusiasm and > knowledge of some HTML tools (e.g. anything but frontpage) will be a > good start. > > Joel Cass Developer > > Gruden - Design | Development | Implementation > t +61 2 9299 9462 f +61 2 9299 9463 m 0414 688 774 www.gruden.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Barry Beattie > Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 12:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Wanted: junior css/html ninja > > > > D'oh - wasn't my intention to particularly bag QUT - they were just > > intended to be a case in point. > > > I didn't take the reference to that institution as you singling it > out. I used to work there - there's a lot of dedicated hard working > staff who care - but it's probably safe to say that every institution > isn't 100% perfect. > > > > - it's just a continuing point of frustration that > > they so often, students who have 3 year degrees that on paper - > should > > relate directly to the work we're recruiting them for, have never > been > > exposed in any form to the tools that business actually uses. > > hopefully I've given some clearer picture why this can happen. > > I forgot to mention there's a third form of adult education: "The > School Of Hard Knocks" > > don't laugh. it's actually becoming more viable: > > http://whoyoucallingajesse.com/past/2007/11/13/education_not_important_c > omeon_37signals/ > http://www.davidtucker.net/2007/10/31/why-education-matters-to-flex/#com > ment-128 > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
