I have no issue with the ICDL as a curriculum. I do however have an issue with how much it costs to be a training and testing center and the prices charged for certification. Is there something the government can do in that regard? Best, Crystal On 7/30/10, 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.
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