This past Saturday, my son Kenneth took an entrance exam for BS Computer Science at a school in the university belt. I've heard of developments within the school and how it has practically spun out the Computer Science program to a new college, complete with a new building and other facilities. In fact, the new college is quite aggressive in asserting it's position as a serious place for training future IT professionals.
I was surprised that the entrance exam was free. Surprised because the university has an entrance exam fee for its other courses. That's okay, by me. There were other surprises: the exam is done through a PC, results to be given out after an orientation and tour of facilities. There was even a free lunch for the examinees (and their parents/guardians who were waiting for the exams to finish.)
I didn't take part in the tour of facilities and laboratories as I was at an internet shop coordinating to fix a problem at a client site. (One tech guy going from one client branch to another, three of them in fact, and another one by phone support; and another guy at the Makati office updating the data on client/server software. While also on the line with the client PM to fix the GPRS connection with their provider.) But that's a different story I would rather not go into.
Like most of the new IT schools, the college is a collaboration between IT companies and the (older) university. Though I don't really buy the definition of courses that they gave (which is the same definition of courses a lot of the other colleges and universities have given): BS Computer Science is for the traditional course heavy on theory and languages, whereas BS Information Technology focuses on "new" technology, specially web-based or internet technology. All in all, this is one aggressive school. I just don't know if Kenneth would choose this and the course.
--andoy
17 March 2008
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