> On 22 Jan 2016, at 3:30 PM, Nishal Goburdhan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > whilst i may respect your adherence to quality control, i’m in general > agreement that half is better than zero …
let’s agree to disagree on that point. > > (this is equally true for the arabic material that was translated by > volunteers, or for the portuguese ipv6 material that nic.br offered, which > used to be on the afrinic site, before the site was re-skinned. i am sure > you can put a simple “disclaimer” about the publications, to show that you > haven’t QA’d them, eh?). This will be done before next training cycle starts. (it’s not as simple as putting up a PDF) > > >> Our certification initiatives is about a standardised test/examination - >> which is still one of the best ways to reinforce learning. We've gotten >> lots of requests from our delegates for a "Certificate of Attendance" (we >> currently don't) but when we launch our certification platform, we'll be >> able to give people who need that something with global recognition. > > i’ve said my piece on this, and, to be clear, i wasn’t referring specifically > to your certification plans (which i know nothing about), but to those > unscrupulous ones that see this as an revenue source. perhaps you’ll be a > welcome change. Indeed that is our challenge - our primary objective for it is as part of a learning package as well as giving people (and employers) who’ve shown interest a globally recognised way to be able to say “I am competent at the knowledge that underpin skills in this domain”. Of course we’d expect people to pay for it - the funds of which will finance our other capacity building initiatives. >
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