Re: Perhaps they can teach CS grads as well?
This comment tickled me. From my experience education institutions do not like teaching relevant skills. I'm a CS graduate, with decent problem solving skills which were largely acquired before starting my further and higher education.
However during my National Diploma (the BTec ND for IT Practioners, now defunct I believe) which I studied for prior to the degree those without English and Maths GCSE at grades A-C were required to study for and take the equivalent level Key Skills exams in literacy and numeracy. The flaw in this was that they included it in the ND timetable not as a separate course so even those of us with A-C GCSEs in everything had to attend.
When we requested to be allowed to do a different Key Skills course with the time, namely "Problem Solving", we were refused on the grounds of it not being important or relevant to our ND.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
