[kictanet] ICDL - I apologise

[lordmwesh]

Crystal, you have hit the right note.

Maybe the government might have lobbied KASNEB or KNEC to come up with a
more affordable computer basics course, where even students can learn on
their own and book exams, as it happens to KNEC and KASNEB examinations.

The reason cheap colleges continue to attract willing and desperate students
is because they are able to charge KES4,000 to offer the bogus packages.

regards
Mwendwa Kivuva

On 31 July 2010 14:18, Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal at voicesofafrica.org>wrote:

> 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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