2007-07-04

About value of Master Diploma

I got one too.
That may sound a bit puffed up, but it shouldn't. It's not big deal in our country(ayet another small country) to get a Master degree, You don't need much brain for that either. Almost anyone can enter the university (it's harder when You don't have money and brain, but if You have money, no brain is needed) and almost anyone can finish it holding a Bachelor or Master diploma in their hands. You have to be very very lazy if You can't achieve this. Now one may ask, what is the value of this paper, if it really is so easy to get. It's not totally worthless. For example, most subjects, You are forced to study, are a bit outdated and almost every student understands how "important" and "useful" this information is and especially how it can be applied in his work(if to take software development field). At this point, You must have a very strong willpower to study such things.
So, the Master diploma of Informatics is a certificate of willpower. Not bad. Such skills are needed at work, so You can go ahead and show it to Your employer.
They say, that it's the lack of funding which causes such quality of studies. But I don't believe that a better funding would change the situation right away.
Also, they say, that it's the problem in students only, that they don't want to study and broaden their knowledge and are always going the easiest way. Well, one may want to take a shortcut when studying outdated subjects. And at this point, I must say, that not all subjects are outdated, but the lecturers lack the ability to present that actual information to the students. And in very rare cases, the subjects are neither outdated nor the lecturers lack that ability. And You can't remain indifferent when You see an 80-year old professor having so much sparkle in his eyes when he talks about his subject. But as I mentioned it is a very rare case.
The funniest thing is that, if You post some objective guides about studies and subjects in university, the response from the concrete teaching facility may be not so positive. That's were the any possibility to communicate with university fails, it seems they are not willing to know any feedback from students.
I hope that the example I provided is not very common in other countries.

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