Stephen O'Neill wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Iain Lane wrote: > | How odd. A school wouldn't expect to hire a teacher who couldn't teach, > | so why would it hire a network admin who can't run the software on its > | machines? If this is happening, then there is a problem with the hiring > | of technical staff who do not have the appropriate skillset. > > > I hear that a number of network admins are teachers that fell into the > role part time through a coincidence of knowing how to use a computer, > not because of their being specialists. I imagine that it's only the > larger schools that have budgets to staff the role full time, and I > haven't personal experience of how they go about filling their positions. >
That's exactly the case where my friend's wife is concerned. She knows bits about IT but nothing too technical. Luckily her other half knows a bit more about IT and anything he doesn't understand he asks me :-) Of course I always put my (virtual) Ubuntu hat on and suggest doing things with Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro), even if it's on the backend systems. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
