Damn I was expecting a Ghetto Rap by Eric Schmidt about education.
Misleading title :saddowns:
Hmm. He's right, to be honest.
He's right in every point he makes.
He's right. This country's IT education is a joke.
What about America's education? Our advanced computer classes consist of Microsoft Office 2003 before uni
Pre-college IT education is a joke just about anywhere. A teacher's salary just can't compete with that of a software developer, so the people designing the lessons are often not the best for the job.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;31958305]What about America's education? Our advanced computer classes consist of Microsoft Office 2003 before uni[/QUOTE]
My whole school runs on the latest software. All computers run Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and are all screen computers. Some parts of the country will probably follow suit.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;31958137]He's right. This country's IT education is a joke.[/QUOTE]
my schools definition of web design is creating a table in dreamweaver and putting words & JPG's in it.
BCS is a huge fucking waste of time and DiDA's a fucking joke.
and now the UK has lost it's largest technology company to the US lol good going government and dumb ass analysts in the city.
[QUOTE=frankie penis;31958398]my schools definition of web design is creating a table in dreamweaver and putting words & JPG's in it.[/QUOTE]You're spoilt with Dreamweaver, we had to use Frontpage and we were told EXACTLY what to put in each page for our AS Level coursework.
Your IT education can't be as bad as it is here. I am in a web dev. class at my school and we use templates for sites. Hell, I think the teacher doesn't even know HTML or anything.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;31958389]My whole school runs on the latest software. All computers run Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and are all screen computers. Some parts of the country will probably follow suit.[/QUOTE]
The computers in my school in Ireland all run Windows 2000, Office 200, and IE6
funny considering the number of students taking science and maths has increased...
[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;31959777]The computers in my school in Ireland all run Windows 2000, Office 2000, and IE6[/QUOTE]
Pff, in 2008 my junior school's computers were still running RiscOS 4 with a slow, slow migration to Windows 2000 in progress
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;31958137]He's right. This country's [B]education[/B] is a joke.[/QUOTE]
Fixed for you.
I read the title as " google boss rapes education in UK " :v:
[QUOTE=MasterG;31958901]Conservative guide to a healthy country in the future:
> Cut back funding for teachers to make it less enticing
> Raise tuition fees to discourage higher education
> [B]Tie all education up with bureaucracy so that teaching is a nightmarishly tough job[/B]
> [B]Remove all ability for teachers to punish students[/B]
> [B]Fund shit schools, cut funding for good schools.[/B]
[B]Congrats! The country is now uneducated and unable to successfully contribute to society and will now sponge off the state in benefits.[/B]
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Funfact: All the highlighted were Labour's fault.
I'm pretty sure he said this exact thing to Ireland over a year ago.
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;31959869]funny considering the number of students taking science and maths has increased...[/QUOTE]
And the number of children taking computer science? Not a lot, seeing as i dont think its taught whatsoever
[quote]"Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made. That is just throwing away your great computing heritage,"[/quote]
This enraged me back in school, I finished every unit of the IT course with half a year to spare.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;31958389]My whole school runs on the latest software. All computers run Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and are all screen computers. Some parts of the country will probably follow suit.[/QUOTE]
My whole school uses Windows XP Professional. They also rely on small little boxes that don't have any local processing power. It's surprising that they can browse the web.
Fucked about in DiDA for two years and still passed it. Got a credit or merit, I forget which is one up from a pass.
Should take this guy on a tour of my school's I.T department. Then he'll have something to complain about.
In my school, all of the pupil PC's use windows 98, with ie6, but the teachers get Vista Ultimate, everyone says how cool it looks, I just mock them all in my mind.
I agree completely. The IT department in almost every school i've seen here has been pretty pathetic.
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It isn't even that students don't want it. I know plenty of people that would be interested but most schools just don't offer decent education when it comes to computers.
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;31966993]In my school, all of the pupil PC's use windows 98, with ie6, but the teachers get Vista Ultimate, everyone says how cool it looks, I just mock them all in my mind.[/QUOTE]
uh you have to be some kind of moron to think that windows 98 is better than vista
[QUOTE=frankie penis;31958398]my schools definition of web design is creating a table in dreamweaver and putting words & JPG's in it.[/QUOTE]
Mine is making a 'wesbite' in power point and converting it to html.
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