[LUG] furthering the revolution: ECDL

[Adrian Midgley <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is allegedly nothing about the European Computer Driving Licence that 
is specific to any OS, office suite, or windowing environment.

In practice there seems to be a preponderance of one particular software 
firm's products in testing centres.

The NHS is pressing for many staff to take it.  

It would be nice to see a Linux/Star Office/MySQL instruction and test group 
able to offer training and testing on a par with those using closed source 
systems.

I also think that it is more effective to train people to use word-processing 
software than it is to use Word, spreadsheets, rather than Excel, and to know 
something about the difference between a spreadsheet and a table rather than 
Access.

www.doh.gov.uk/ipu/strategy/update/ch4/ch4.htm

http://www.aomrc.org.uk/ACIG_Documents.htm

Test centres can be found from 
http://www.ecdl.co.uk

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