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

[Ellis, Peter R.]

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.....)

Thanks,
Peter