Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

"Noons" <nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:Xns92F8BC80ABA1mineminemine_at_210.49.20.254...
> don_at_burleson.cc (Don Burleson) wrote in
> news:998d28f7.0301011837.4514a2a2_at_posting.google.com and I quote:
>
>
> > Here is the USA, certification bodies require a Graduate College
> > Degree for
> >
> > 1 - Bar certification (law)
> > 2 - Medical certification (board certified MD)
> > 3 – Engineering (Civil and EE)
>
>
> Yeah, but those are very general qualifications.
> I'm talking more vertical.
>
> >
> > Can you imagine the brouhaha if Oracle Corporation required OCPs to
> > have a formal education?
> >
>
> Well, as always: define "OCP"?
>
> For a DBA, I can't see why a formal education in some related
> discipline wouldn't be desirable. I sincerely doubt that someone
> with a degree in ancient egyptology or reaal estate selling
> would ever become a DBA. Other than as an "OCP"...
> But I can see an actuary, or an engineer, becoming one.
>

Er... Masters in History here.

(Well, majoring in 20th Century American Political History, which -as my Dean used to sneer- is merely current affairs. But then he claimed anything after 1492 was current affairs).

Regards
HJR
>
> One problem is we tend to equate OCP with DBA. Nothing is
> further from the truth. And there should not only be a formal
> recognition of DBA. Designers, programmers, analysts, all are
> more than overdue for some form of industry recognition. In a
> little more than just the "flavour-of-the-jour" in technology or
> the latest version of whatever.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam
Received on Thu Jan 02 2003 - 14:45:18 CST