What is the value of A-level and degree courses’ content? It is a short question but a simple answer will be not useful. What can be claimed is that a course at these levels develops the students’ capacities as learners. This is a theme that we have promoted in our Study Centre presentation AS/A2 History in a World of Rapid Change [also available in a YouTube version in our The X Files section]. Vineet Nayar of Indian IT firm HCL Technologies, probably the fastest growing IT services group in the world added a gloss to this in an interview on the Today programme [BBC Radio 4] today. Not shy of controversy, Vineet Nayar stated that these courses, with emphasis on content, did not prepare students for work in business and his business trains students for some12 to 18 months after graduation. To end with a question: does the content of an A-level or degree History course matter at all? [You can be sure contributors to this question will come from this office.]
Contributor: Tom Wells. Sempringham [ehistory.org.uk] eLearning Office.
Friday 15 October 2010
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