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. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc: #localfoss on irc.freenode.net
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