[AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

[Paul Jones]

I'm currently doing the Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Information Technology (BEHI) course at University of South Queensland via correspondence, and they have been nothing short of excellent. All the subjects are reasonably up to date and relevant, the academics generally have decent industry experience and they will give leniency to people like myself who also work full time. Highly recommended.

Paul.

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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mitch Keating
Sent: Monday, 9 March 2015 8:43 AM
To: Jason But
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

I am currently doing IT post grad at Uni of Sydney and they have a policy where they will only credit subjects from other "accredited" Uni is where you got a 5/credit or higher. (This means I am going to have to essentially repeat a subject or 2)

To be perfectly honest, with the way USYD treat students (particularly those whom work full time and may not be fee paying international students) in the program, it's an absolute waste of time but I've started and I will finish!

And don't get me started on how out of touch academics are.....

Many Thanks

Mitchell Keating
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> On 9 Mar 2015, at 08:08, Jason But <jbut at swin.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/06/15 16:58, Kai wrote:
>> After some personal brainstorming the most practical thing to do is find full-time ongoing employment. I've applied for a job each week for the last three months, with no luck. I have 14 years experience which is an experience equivalent to a degree + extras but it looks like employers are looking for the word "Degree" on my CV, and I don't have that, so I'm going to see what's required to get a degree with RPL with the intention of making myself "more hirable".
> I doubt any University will offer RPL on an entire degree program. The 
> policy at Swinburne (probably the same at all Unis) will be that no 
> more than half a degree can be credited with RPL
> 
> Jason
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