[Linux-aus] Interview with Mark Lloyd from ACS on compulsory accreditation

[James Purser]

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 10:11 +1000, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> universities are offered the opportunity to submit their courses for 
> accreditation with ACS (its a no/low cost exercise from ACS' perspective 
> but a lot of work for the University, just like becoming an ISO9000 
> compliant company is).  Those courses that students do which are 
> accredited make it a no-brainer to be elegible for membership of ACS. 
> Perhaps you might ask the university if their course that your partner 
> did was accredited, if not, why not?  Often the answer is that there 
> arent sufficient IT offerings in it that are at the appropriate academic 
> level in spite of it being called the Grad-Dip-IT-something-or-other. 
> This isnt an ACS problem but rather a course design problem.
> 
> This also doesnt mean that courses which arent accredited are ignored or 
> invalidated from ACS's point of view just that its more problematic and 
> less certain that students will meet the necessary criteria in doing 
> non-accredited courses for professional membership  See 
> http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=accreditation&temID=accUniversities 
> for info about the Course Accreditation process and to see which 
> university courses are accredited and at what level.
> 
> I have participated as an ACS accreditation panel member in the past and 
> I have to say that the process of getting courses accredited is both 
> rigorous and thorough whilst its my experience that its also a positive 
> process that's often welcomed by Universities because it gives them the 
> opportunity to benchmark their offerings against an external standard 
> based on the profession's Core Body of Knowledge (CBOK) which then leads 
> to a marketing advantage in the growing their slice of the Australian 
> international student marketplace.
> 

Do private certifications have to go through the same process? As I
understand it, Microsofts MCSE certification is recognised by ACS while
Redhats RHCE certification isn't.
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James Purser
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