[AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

[Kai]

Thank you for all the feedback with this, very useful info and has given me tips for which Uni's would be best to speak to about remote learning!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Jones" 
To:"Mitch Keating" , "Jason But" 
Cc:"ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" 
Sent:Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:09:19 +0000
Subject:Re: [AusNOG] Jobs - degree vs experience?

 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.

 -----Original Message-----
 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
 Sent from my iPhone

 > On 9 Mar 2015, at 08:08, Jason But  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
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > ----------
 > Dr. Jason But
 > Deputy Chair, Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and 
 > Robotics Engineering Deputy Academic Director (Education Quality & 
 > Accreditation) Course Co-Ordinator, Bachelor of ICT (Network Design

 > and Security)
 > 
 > Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and Robotics
Engineering 
 > School of Software and Electrical Engineering Faculty of Science, 
 > Engineering and Technology Swinburne University of Technology
CRICOS 
 > Provider 00111D
 > 
 > Phone: +61 3 9214 4839
 > Email: jbut at swin.edu.au
 > www: http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/jbut
 > Office: EN606e
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