On Monday 04 October 2004 12:19, Thomas Bibby wrote:
> She's looking at some postgrad cert/diploma courses in IT, and I was
> wondering if anyone had any opinions as to the usefulness of these.
> In this context I'm talking about:
>> If anyone has any useful information or links to hand about the
> usefulness of these courses, or a more appropriate forum that this
> question could be posted to, or any general opinions on this, I'd
> really appreciate it.
I did an undergrad in CS (Mathematical and Computing Science, UCG) so I
can't speak to the usefulness or otherwise of post-grad courses.
However, both of the colleges I attended (and, unfortunately, still
attend... motivation is a sneaky and slippery devil making it tough to
find) have postgrad courses:
Department of Computer Science, UCD:
- Higher Diploma in Computer Science
(http://www.cs.ucd.ie/courses/Diploma/HDIPCS/Default.htm)
- H.Dip/M.Sc Computational Science
(http://dumas.ucd.ie/msc/MScCompSci.html)
My Ph.D. supervisor runs this course and I'd be happy to put you in
contact with him. I know a couple of people who did the H.Dip. is CS
and I can put you in contact with them if you'd like.
As for UCG (or NUI, Galway as it is now known):
- MSc - Communications Systems Theory (Dept. of Maths -
interdisiplinary)
(http://www.maths.nuigalway.ie/pstudents/mcomsys.shtml)
The Department of Information Technology has a few courses too:
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/intro.htm
--
Regards,
Barry O'Donovan
http://www.ihl.ucd.ie/
Information Hiding Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science,
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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