[kictanet] ICDL - I apologise

[bitange at jambo.co.ke]

The problem with us as Walubengo has clearly said is resistance to any change.  I mean any change including technology update.  Some of our University curicula in technology courses  is some years behind the current state of technology.  In some cases lecturers are willing to change but bureaucracy delays everything.  Do we want to have a stagnated Kenyan ICDL because it is expensive? 

Coming up with a revised education Act or any other law for that matter will take five years.  Solution:  Vote yes on Wednesday.  With the change, you will have a specialized cabinet to make regular changes to laws as we need them.

Ndemo.

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From: Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal at voicesofafrica.org>
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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:18:43 
To: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] ICDL - I apologise

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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