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« on: November 29, 2009, 01:15:18 AM »
Well having a degree in these times are an essential requirement if you want to be able to get a good job etc, however being a final year student at the School of Accounting and Management (S.A.M.) I would not advise anybody to do their computing degree there. I will state my reasons below:
1. First there is the cost. Since you have to pay for 3 years their fees are:
Year 1: £750 + $500 registration fee
Year 2: £850 + $500 registration fee
Year 3: (final year) £990 + $2000 for books and $500 registration fee
So from the beginning they are critically expensive.
2. As a computing institute you would expect to have a computer for your personal use like you get at SBCS. Wrong!!! At SAMs the only time you get to use the computers are at lunch times or when you have labs and trust me you don’t get much labs. There are about 45 computers in the entire SAMs south campus and about 70 at the north campus. At both campuses you care not assigned permissions to download any files so downloading .zip files or ever .pdfs are prohibited.
3. The teaching REALLY SUCKS!!!!! The syllabus they use is from NCC which is from 2002. The lecturers do not have any degrees so they can’t teach most of the subjects. Throughout my experience at same I have studied using my books since most of what the lecturers don’t teach. Most of the time the lectures are very rude and bad talk the students in the classroom which is unprofessional.
4. The text books we get are outdated (printed in 2004) for the latest. So they don’t offer much information that is useful in the real world. For some of practical books like A+ they are using windows 98 and windows 2000!!!!!!
5. The library is useless since all of the books are outdated and there are hardly any books for the computing department.
6. The first 2 diplomas that you get in year 1 and year 2 are not accreted and are not recognised by any government agencies. So you can’t even get a job as a technician since NCC is not recognised anywhere.
7. Final Year is really SHIT because they require you to use oracle 10g database which is the shittiest thing around. They do not train you use it, so weather or not u can understand or know how to use this database is up to you.
In conclusion I don’t think going to sams to get my degree was worth it since when I was a technician in Petrotrin, I had to train a sams student who had a first class Hons in computers who didn’t even know how to turn on a computer. If I didn’t do some Microsoft and CISCO courses I would be unemployed and job less.
I would advise you to do your degree at SITAL OR SBCS. Thanks. Message me if you want more information.
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