Hello Robert, Do colleges still teach FrontPage?! This would be considered a distaster for students learning web design and development as it was replaced by Expression Web, part of the Expression Studio. The last release of Frontpage was 2003 while Expression Web was introduced in 2006. This is really bad because some of the bright students may eventually end up in Govt ICT sections and might explain the sometimes terrible sites we hear of. The world has moved to so much diversity in Web technologies. The college should be banned! The is a need to ensure that Colleges receive ratings on material they teach and a monitoring system kept in place to ensure they are not abusing the system. My view shared. Rgds. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:06 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi, I would like to apologise to Dr. Ndemo for giving the impression that his team had not done their homework when they recommended that ICDL be the official computer proficiency certification. As is said it is only after you have walked in a man's shoes can you then criticise him, I recently looked at a training manual from one of the local computer colleges that was 10 pages long and covered word, excel, powerpoint, access, frontpage and IE. The exam for each subject was done after 1 day of training, in the case of word it included mailmerge. Each application was covered on less than 2 pages and the entire course takes 10 days, Dr. Ndemo the sooner you can operationalise the ICDL issue the sooner students will stop loosing money to quacks and we shall return to the point of making computer users truly IT proficient. Regards
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