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I largely agree with this, but there's one complication. A lot of the certification aspect is that certain schools have earned a reputation over many decades fo
by rguzman 12y ago
I largely agree with this, but there's one complication. A lot of the certification aspect is that certain schools have earned a reputation over many decades for being selective, having high academic standards, and producing effective graduates (no claim as to whether they upkeep those, or even rightfully earned them in the first place). It is very difficult to invent some certification that is comparably valuable to a degree from such schools.
- analog31 12y agoPerhaps a broader issue is that the current system is the one that nobody designed. And, designing a certification system from scratch, that achieves any kind of widespread acceptance, may be impossible. I see something similar happen on a smaller scale when a business tries to re-design a successful legacy product: The conditions that made it possible to design the original product no longer exist. Nobody really understands why the legacy product was successful, and the original designers are long gone -- they were "acqui-fired." The legacy product might have a number of glaring shortcomings, but the re-design team ends up creating something that's worse.