Wow, I seem to have kicked off quite a ruckus. From what has been said I believe the situation isn't as bad as I thought, certainly no worse than in business/industry. There is still a long way to go, but we're getting there.
So, points to note: 1) Syllabus documents may be out of date, or just not quite in line with what's actually being taught. Lesson: don't believe everything you read, and believe the best until proven otherwise. 2) Some educators are resistant to change, just as some finance directors/marketing departments/project managers are. Lesson: You can lead a horse to water... 3) Many academic institutions are teaching and advocating web standards to their students. Lesson: use the people doing it right as examples, maybe a "how web standards has improved our web design course" document would be useful. And some things that I've been mulling over for quite a while. Is there an international web design accreditation scheme, or some "web master driving licence"? Is that one of the aims of a web designers association/guild? And finally, what associations/guilds are you part of? http://www.hwg.org/, http://www.gawds.org/, http://www.iwanet.org/, and http://www.ukwda.org/ are the ones I'm aware of (there are others, I'm sure). thanks Chris ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
