[kictanet] ICDL - I apologise

[Crystal Watley Kigoni]

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 at 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
>  Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
>
>


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