Message-ID: <3A256258.896A61C7@halenet.com.au> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:08:56 +1000 From: Don Hansford <donh@halenet.com.au> Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux Certifications Just had to add a bit :-) As a teacher (TAFE College), I can understand where Berndt was coming from. For example, out of 12 students who are currently likely to pass the networks administration course we ran this year, I would consider employing maybe 2 as SysAdmins. 5 - 6 may be useful in a Help-Desk type situation, and the rest I wouldn't employ for love or money! But they have the piece of paper, because they could answer the required questions. Because the cost of training is so high, the training has to produce "results", so they get a raft of predictable scenarios to work with on a set schedule. Meet the (limited) criteria, and you pass. And even worse, due to the proliferation of the Politically Correct Anal-retentives, the only choice we have in marking them is "competent" or "not yet competent". What a crock! The brightest student in the class gets exactly the same mark as some bludger that has just squeezed through! Oh, for the good old days!!!! -- This Email is 100% Virus Free! How do I know? Because no Microsoft products were used to generate it! Regards Don Hansford ECKYTECH COMPUTING/ SQIT Warwick <SuSE Linux 6.4> "We're tired, we're wired, and our breath smells bad -- -But at least our Operating System doesn't suck!"