hope html tags work, im so sorry, i so wouldn’t be driving a car designed by my uncle who has been selling gato piment who likes to design cars.

and im sure you would like to have a car designer that at least knows how a car is supposed to look like.

this sadly where programmers will never understand their role in corporate machines, not throwing names, but programmers/developers simply do no know the importance of what a program can do or not, they do not understand the meaning of it, for them it’s all about programming and solving the problem.

it is like most things in life, some people are meant to be bus drivers and some executives. they are just being used by ’someone else’ to do a job they are better at.

the importance for us as a small nation is to understand the principle of education, the values that it provides, life isn’t about being the big boss, but rather balancing both.

our gen has choice, a creation of GEN X, so if our problem is choice, then we have no one to blame but them, but im not blaming them, i love choice.
but the narrow mentality has to change.

i was a CS student, but a career wise it wasn’t going to get me anywhere, that was in 2003.

most of the IT work also relates on how the market and how willing customers are ready to take up new technology, the consumer drives the cash flow for future expansion.

IBM and microsoft can build windows ‘extraordinaire; but if businesses do not see the need to implement it to benefit the consumer/customer then windows ‘extraordinaire’ become ’simple’

suck is life.

I’m sure you’ll get lots of answers from students

My opinion is that it’s true students use of a lot of “txt speak” (on their websites, in the emails they send me, etc.) but not in their assignments or reports.

What is more troublesome is that sometimes I notice a lot of plagiarism in the reports. For instance, in the final year report, the “background study” part, which is supposed to be a comparative study of various technologies, is sometimes just a lot of copy-paste from websites without any form of continuity and/or coherence…

I’m curious— How is the quality of the writing in the assignments that your students turn in?

The reason I ask is, lately I’ve been reading many blogs from UoM and UTM students, and to be honest, I’m appalled by the poor quality of English of many of those. I’m not saying that these bloggers should write perfect English (or French), but as future scientists and IT consultants, they will be brought to produce reports that present information as effectively as possible. Yet, I can see a high proportion of “txt speak” which is not only hard to read by anyone other than hardcore texters, but also lack structure and evidence of any clear-thinking behind.

I’ll probably get flamed for this, but I’m also hoping that it will generate some discussion.

– Eddy

@avinash:
As far as the maths… huh nevermind, no comments

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However, I can say that I think that the education system here is much better than in Mauritius. People tend to think that since Mauritian students are tested by universities in the UK, the education system in the two countries are similar. That could not be further from the truth. The subjects available to Mauritian students form only a small subset of those available here. Students have a virtually unlimited pool of career choices. For example, my young neighbour is now a trainee policeman after studying Public Services in college, and his sister is training to become a nurse in college.

I think that this large choice of careers gives young people the opportunity to get into a field that they like and will perform well instead of being coralled into specific ones as in Mauritius. Ask anyone in Mauritius what they want to do, and the typical answer you will get is “become a software developer/doctor/dentist/lawyer/economist/accountant”. Ask a youth over here, and you could get romantic answers, like “I want to be a fireman/policeman”!

–Eddy

My mistake…

To Eddy:

What do you think?