[et-cg] Draft Recommendation

[Ruediger Berlich]

Dear Donal,

the focus of the proposal is not so much on the courses and their content but 
on the examination (i.e. "what does a professional Grid technician need to 
know and how do we test it ?"). At least in the commercial sector, in order 
to achieve a credible certification, it should not be the training providers 
that do the testing (after all they are under pressure by their paying 
customers).

VUE test centers do the testing for LPI courses for a comparatively small fee. 
This is a model I believe would work for a CGE or CGT as well.

If academic courses teach 80% of the skills needed for the Certified Grid 
Technician (and then something else), I do not see why students wouldn't be 
able to get themselves tested in a test centre. 

Of course the OGF discussions about the CGT/CGE need to take into account the 
needs of academic institutions (this also depends on their willingness to 
send delegates and participate in the discussion, though). 

It is a different question whether or not they should be able to award a CGT 
or CGE for the courses they teach themselves. This needs to be discussed in 
the group, I believe.

Best Regards,
Ruediger


On Thursday, 26. April 2007 17:31, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Ruediger Berlich wrote:
> > please find attached a first draft recommendation for the professional
> > Grid certification. We can discuss this tomorrow during the phone
> > conference. As this is a very early version, please do not disseminate it
> > further beyond this list.
>
> As I don't know if I'll be able to make it to the call tomorrow, I'll
> raise my point now. The point is that I'd like some kind of
> clarification of how such a proposed professional qualification would
> related to any taught academic courses in the area. The tricky bit is
> that the focus of academic courses are likely to be substantially
> different to the focus of professional training; off the top of my head,
> perhaps the right way to go is to work to align courses so that
> graduates of a certified course on the academic track can advance
> directly to CGE with a single (practical) module focussed on
> installation/administration? (I say this because I suspect that those
> are the aspects that academic courses are likely to be weakest on.)
>
> OK, I admit that I've not thought about this very deeply; it's just my
> first impressions. Well, other than "very good". :-)
>
> Donal.

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Kind Regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Ruediger Berlich

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