[LINK] Promoting education in Australia

[Clive Vernon]

Hi Tony,
      I'm new to the Link and have enjoyed reading the postings for the 
past week or so. However your response to the idea of education 
fellowships in IT threw me- are you agin 'em or what? 

A lot of concepts are taught differently today in a lot of different 
disciplines- that's what happens when you let each generation have a go 
at passing on knowledge. It doesn't necessarily however lead to poorly 
constructed websites or, for that matter, the imminent demise of 
everything we hold true and dear. Pick a subject, any subject, and 
you'll find excellence as well as incompetence on the internet- its a 
great leveller!
Clive.
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 Stephen Loosley wrote:
 So, here's news of a very good promotion of ICT education
 for students already in Australia. And imho there should be
 more such initiatives, with Year 11 being just the right age.
 
 Tony Barry wrote:
 In 1978 I bought a z80 based Tandy TRS-80 Microcomputer. As a 
 result two of my children are in IT. If they wanted games, which they 
 did, they had to write them themselves or type in listings and debug 
 them  and in the process learn the  computing languages involved. I 
 don't think they teach that way.