By Natasha Lomas
Published: Wednesday 06 August 2008
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Name
Richard Sarson
Location
Wimbledon
Occupation
Loose cannon
Comment
Yes it will help; any combined course between universities and firms has to be good. But what is really needed is for someone to take a hard look at ALL university "computer science" courses, and see whether they:
- are suitable for enhancing the existing skills of today's YouTube/Bebo generation
- equip students for the next mobile and web technologies to come over the horizon
- give them a grounding in business, government, media on which to hang their technical skills.
- encourage creativity
If today's university courses do not match up to these criteria, they should be scrpped and replaced by ones that do.
Yes it will help; any combined course between univ...
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