Reply to post: So microsoft exams can be passed by 6 year olds

So microsoft exams can be passed by 6 year olds

So what does this say about the quality of professional IT certifcation?

In the UK even BCS recognise microsoft certification so where does that leave the IT employer, with the lack of quality certification most IT most professionals are having to have a Masters (spending 4 years or more) to be recognised as qualified on paper.

I am thinking it is high time to move away from "professional" qualifications completely and return to a recognised and meaningful BSc in Computer Science. All the professional qualifications I have seen would be better titled product knowledge rather than attempting to indicate that the holder is educated to what would be professional level outside of IT. Further when UK degrees are again relying upon "professional certification" where they should be teaching the fundementals this means that there is not a single paper certification that proves anything about the holder's IT abilites.

Without a meaningful computing qualification everything is based upon where you worked and that means that at present in the UK going to work for 4 years and having a degree in any other subject makes you more recognised than following the IT degree route or even holding the latest "professional" qualifications especially when it comes to career advancement.

In summary there is not a respected IT degree out there so why are we paying to teach "modern" computing degrees at all