[AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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From: McDonald Richards <mcdonald.richards at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 4:39
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?



Most universities are also businesses and are probably interested in being paid for subjects instead of granting RPL.

For those of you who are doing degrees that have some sort of focus on networking, do you feel you are getting value for money from your paid education or are you simply jumping through the hoops for a piece of paper at the end? Is this purely so you can seek employment?



/ Specific to this, I think is a good and easy way to judge the quality of what you're being taught - are you taught IPv4 variable length subnetting and CIDR? Both of them are over 20 years old both in concept and start of deployment.   
Macca






On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:13 PM, James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Ross Annetts wrote:
>
>> I tried getting RPL with UTS when I started a computer science degree, they
>> would not accept my networking engineering diploma as RPL since it had been
>> more than 5 years since I completed it. I managed to get a couple subjects
>> exempt by doing some exams, but they did not give me any exemptions just based
>> on experience in the workforce. They are also pretty strict on making sure
>> that any prior learning you have done closely matches the current syllabus of
>> the subject before even considering it.
>>
>> It definitely depends on the Uni though so you should ask around. An
>> alternative would be getting some certs if you haven't got them already,
>> should be pretty easy if you have experience already and will help getting
>> passed the HR department.
>
>Charles Sturt University have the IT Masters program which has a clear
>industry focus, including the possibility of RPL for industry
>certifications:
>http://www.itmasters.edu.au/course/master-of-networking-and-systems-administration/
>http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/master-of-networking-and-systems-administration
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