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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/02/15 16:07, Jay Bennie wrote: > interesting reading, i wonder when people at the top will realise > just because you have a qualification, wont mean your any good at > it. Software development is as much an art form as it is a trained > skill. All this will do is flood the market with crap programmers. > > > http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240240505/UK-failing-to-address-digital-skills-shortage-says-Lords-report?asrc=EM_ERU_39833542&utm_medium=EM&utm_source=ERU&utm_campaign=20150218_ERU%20Transmission%20for%2002/18/2015%20%28UserUniverse:%201391364%29_myka-reports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx&src=5361137 > > Well if this user group is full of programmers why are more people not volunteering to do things like code club, pass your skills to the next generation, so that hopefully in a few years the people you work for will have a pool of talent to choose from when looking for more staff. There are people on the Linux user group who are trying to address this we would really like more support from other people. Running and attending Pi jams for example. To run a code club requires you to actually like coding but you also need to be able to communicate with children / young people in that sort of environment, I am not sure if the two vocations mix that well but some of us are trying and reports like this just say, what we are doing is not good enough, it will never be good enough will it, Rather then releasing reports saying how well people are doing, we have reports that ignore all the good work and say what people are doing is not good enough, We only started this new curriculum in September so a bit early to say it is not working. so thank you to these people for saying I am not good enough, I am doing my best with virtually no support, granted for torbay things are in the pipeline but not sure what yet and only as I am asking people for help. We have young people who are really keen and no one to really fully support them if they ask for help we just try our best to help them. regards Paul - -- http://www.zleap.net @zleap14 @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org Torbay Raspberry Pi jam 14th March www.dcglug.org.uk for information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlTkyG0ACgkQaggq1k2FJq1BPgCdEeUz6Sa6kOltcj6GV2YpLiCM WN4An1jYzVsJu+BX/7eSbBEavekX82sd =O1p0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq