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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
This is exactly why I dropped out of studying computer science in Australia. The program I chose turned out to be an outdated software engineering course pandering to what industry thought they needed, and lacking any historical, theoretical, and philosophical context.
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Brendan Keogh
@BRKeogh
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‘Job readiness’ means focussing on what industry said they needed yesterday instead of the flexible, resilient, and critical skills needed to adapt to tomorrow
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
I got far more out of the art and design history courses I did as part of a half-finished graphic design degree (long story) in my career as a programmer than I have from the practical job training stuff they were doing in that computer science program.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
The context here for those outside Australia: twitter.com/Jo_Tovey/statu - university in Australia has become synonymous with job training, and TAFE (technical schools) have been extremely undervalued (in the eyes of employers and the public) and underfunded.
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Josephine Tovey
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The Coalition will double university fees for some future arts students, and also raise them for commerce and law, to fund an expansion of 39,000 places and cheaper degrees for those who study in-demand courses such as teaching, nursing. Via @Paul_Karp theguardian.com/australia-news
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