sec: unclassified - CCNA vs 'traditional' study at college

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Fri Nov 2 00:10:49 EST 2001


"Ellis, Peter R." wrote:
> 
> Karun, (and others)
> 
> I have seen reference in your postings to the Cisco course (CCNA) at
> College.
> 
> My son, David, is going to Hawker College next year for years 11/12. It has
> a similar Cisco scheme there, but he is (or is it I am) somewhat confused as
> to the usefulness of the Cisco 'major' versus doing more 'traditional' IT
> subjects best summarised as "programming languages" and "systems analysis",
> when looking at going on to university study in IT.
> 
> He is about 7-10 days from an enrollment interview to nominate his subjects.
> 
> Please comment on your understandings and feelings about this.
> (Anyone else with an opinion? But... please keep opinions to under 300 lines
> and/or 5,000 words.....)



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