Robb Kimmer

UK

Trainer/Consultant

UK skills awareness is a joke. People in the UK seem to think that the ECDL, NVQs and other such low-level timewasting is a serious attempt to up-skill us.

Get real. The ECDL, as the NVQ, was a political bandaid. It provides us with people who can actually write a letter in a work processor! Wow, that really is going to put the UK at the top of the world-leading techno-countries.

University graduates are mostly useless and know nothing of IT or it's infrastructure. They become pen-pushing jotter-dotters who rely on the real techies to help them keep thier worthless jobs.

We value the worthless and pay our skilled technical people peanuts.

Let's look at 'proper' top-end training and less at whether or not Mrs Bloggins can type a letter, or whether or not Mr Crumble can fill out a spreadsheet.

Kill off the training company's cash cows and get this government and it suited fresh-faced graduate thinkers to talk to people who work at the coal-face, not some pinko office wallah.