Britain's computer science courses failing to give workers digital skills
Loads of interesting issues raised by this article. It’s description of pre-uni education matches my experience, but if there are unis and colleges churning out unemployable graduates, Edinburgh University isn’t one of them. However, everyone I’ve spoken to who has interviewed for software engineers have complained about the amount chaff they have to sift through.
I don’t think it will ever be possible to produce graduates who are completely ready to work, employers in the interview want maths, physics, programming, general computing management and artistic skills all at once. However, engineering schools have been developing more balanced graduates for decades. Some people in technology still deny that software engineering is a valid field on account of it’s creative nature, but my experience of engineering companies suggests that creativity is key to their success. The fallacy is that engineering is building bridges, plugging numbers into well known formula, following well known processes, but someone had to design the first bridge and determine the safest and most effective process for doing so.
