Leading Ukrainian IT-companies have developed professional standards so that universities can teach really relevant skills
The Council for the Competitiveness of the Communications and Information Technology Industry of Ukraine published on its website several documents developed by the participants of the Council that are intended both for students of IT specialties and for the academic environment. The meaning of the documents is very simple - the direct participants in the software development market (GlobalLogic, EPAM Ukraine, 1C Ukraine) described what requirements university graduates are facing in real life behind the walls of the university.
The problem of the obsolescence of knowledge, especially in such a dynamic field as computer science, is not new and often becomes a matter of evaluating the performance of higher educational institutions. Many are familiar with the situation when university lectures touch on the academic side of the topic (it is quite possible that at a fundamental level), during a practical lesson the question is at best illustrated by some examples and tasks, and students do not get real development experience. As a result, realizing that “The Art of Programming” is one thing, and at the interview they ask something completely different (“how does the interface differ from an abstract class” or “how to choose the maximum value from a column without using the MAX function”), you always have to keep in browser tabs resources like "Habra" or Coursera.
In order to eliminate this state of affairs, if not immediately at the official level, then at the level of the future engineers themselves, 5 standards were developed, guided by which one can roughly understand what employers expect from a young person (Ukrainian, pdf):
The structure of the documents is quite simple. In addition to the regulatory requirements, each of them contains a table consisting of three columns: “Labor function”, “Knowledge”, and “Skills”. For example, the “System Design” area of ​​knowledge implies a graduate's skills:
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from which it is clear that it is impossible to do without knowing such necessary things as git or Jenkins (for example) to a future engineer.
As it became known, the Ministry of Education of Ukraine supports the initiative of IT companies and can recommend universities to focus on the developed documents, because not only practical specialists but also representatives of the KPI, NAU and other technical universities participated in the preparation of standards.
The problem of the obsolescence of knowledge, especially in such a dynamic field as computer science, is not new and often becomes a matter of evaluating the performance of higher educational institutions. Many are familiar with the situation when university lectures touch on the academic side of the topic (it is quite possible that at a fundamental level), during a practical lesson the question is at best illustrated by some examples and tasks, and students do not get real development experience. As a result, realizing that “The Art of Programming” is one thing, and at the interview they ask something completely different (“how does the interface differ from an abstract class” or “how to choose the maximum value from a column without using the MAX function”), you always have to keep in browser tabs resources like "Habra" or Coursera.
In order to eliminate this state of affairs, if not immediately at the official level, then at the level of the future engineers themselves, 5 standards were developed, guided by which one can roughly understand what employers expect from a young person (Ukrainian, pdf):
- Software Development Specialist
- Information Technology Project Manager
- Information Technology Product Manager
- Information Systems Specialist
- Information Resource Specialist
The structure of the documents is quite simple. In addition to the regulatory requirements, each of them contains a table consisting of three columns: “Labor function”, “Knowledge”, and “Skills”. For example, the “System Design” area of ​​knowledge implies a graduate's skills:
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- Deploy software resulting from integration.
- Work with software control systems version.
- Work with continuous software integration systems.
- Work with repositories of software modules and elements.
from which it is clear that it is impossible to do without knowing such necessary things as git or Jenkins (for example) to a future engineer.
As it became known, the Ministry of Education of Ukraine supports the initiative of IT companies and can recommend universities to focus on the developed documents, because not only practical specialists but also representatives of the KPI, NAU and other technical universities participated in the preparation of standards.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/357598/
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