There are actually a few excellent teachers at Sydney Institute (ultimo TAFE) who understand and teach web site design and development with a real focus on web standards. Their knowledge is extremely current and while the old addage of > 'Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.'
is sometimes true, it isn't always. and defineitely not in this case. Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Seona Bellamy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 9:36 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign On 08/09/2005, at 9:14 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: > On 8 Sep 2005, at 8:59 AM, Craig Rippon wrote: > > >> by-the-by: I am a web development student at Yeronga TAFE college >> in Brisbane, Australia. One of my instructors has never heard of >> DOCTYPE, refuses to put tags in lowercase and also refuses to >> close <p>, 'cause they don't need to be closed. >> > > Which just goes to prove the (cynical) old saw: 'Those that can, > do. Those that can't, teach.' > > Seriously, this is a good example of how important it is that > tertiary education the world over keeps its curriculum up to speed > with what's happening in the real world. Difficult, I know, given > the administrative behemoths that are responsible for govt-run > education - but as a student, if your course is not up to scratch, > you should complain - in writing - to the highest power that you > can. Maybe your local MP? It may take years for change to come > about, and probably won't help you, but it may help the students > down the line... > And in the meantime, you've got us to help you learn to do it right! *grin* Seriously, though, when I did my uni course we had a subject on usability and accessibility and it touched briefly (very briefly) on CSS. Pity none of the tutors really understood it. *sigh* I ended up taking one of the tutes myself, because I was the only one in the class who knew what the lecturer was getting at. Might have considered getting into teaching myself, except that it would mean I had to deal with students... Cheers, Seona. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
