University of Plymouth Computing Industry Perception Study

First of all, can I reassure you that this posting is NOT spam and not market research. Please feel free to email me at the address below to check/validate this message prior to doing the survey if you wish.

I'm doing a piece of research looking at industry perceptions of computing graduates. The
motivation behind this work is that I know a lots of academics who claim to know what industry wants, and lots of people in the industry who tell me that academics have no idea what it is like to work in the real world, but no-one seems to talk across the "great divide". So, I thought the probably the best way to assess industry perception was to ask people!

For part of this research I wish to carry out a small survey to measure attitude by those
who work in industry and have dealings with or work with computing graduates and also recent computing graduates who are now working in industry.

If you can help, can you have a look at the survey at:

http://ted.see.plymouth.ac.uk/andyhandouts/surveys/industrysurvey.aspx

While I am placed in a UK institute that fact that we are working more to produce international graduates means I am interested in both UK and non-UK respondents.Could you also pass it on to anyone else you work with/know who might like to contribute to the survey.

Many thanks

Dr. Andy Phippen
Senior Lecturer in Computing
School of Computing, Communications and Electronics Faculty of Technology
University of Plymouth
andy_at_jack.see.plymouth.ac.uk Received on Sat Jun 26 2004 - 10:32:41 CDT