On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:32, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Quoting Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:16, you wrote: > > > My son is interested in a certificate in "Internet and Webpages" from > > > Southern Institute of Technology (a distance-learning course). They > > > > say > > > > > students will need: > > > > Not to put a downer on this, but is the certificate worth anything? > > This is a most important consideration. A good portfolio of work is often > as good an indication of what somebody is able to do as is a certificate > from some random institute. Don't interpret this as suggesting that the > "Southern Institute of Technology" is incompetent. I don't know, but I do > know that it's often a better use of money to buy, and read, a decent set > of text-books than to attend a short, non-academic (re-)training course. > > > Wouldn't your son be better off having a go at building a website and > > learning from practical experience and the plethora of (free) > > information available? > > Yes, but then he won't have the all important certificate.
The proof of the pudding is not in the eating, in New Zealand. It's in the certification. Of course, after going through the certification process, the pudding is nine days old - or older - and not infrequently moldy and completely inedible by that time, but hey! That's progress! ;) > <snip> -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
