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Yes, this is a real dilemma and a catch-22. I was an unrdagdaeurte admissions selector for CS between 1996 and 2010 so have a good insight into this question/suggestion. It's a point that's often been made and the basic issue is that Computer Science at HE level assumes no prior experience and is taught from ground zero'. There are historic reasons for this the main one being that the Higher Computing curriculum was not designed to be a pre-requisite for the study of the subject at HE level.It's a real catch-22 and unless, and until, the curriculum of Computing in schools becomes much more aligned to the requirements of Computer Science degrees then there's little prospect that HE will harden' their first year (foundation level) courses to require Higher Computing and build upon that knowledge base.OTOH, if the (equivalent of) AH Computing was to incorporate rigorous computational thinking concepts that more closely matched the first year university CS curriculum in combination with, say, AH Maths, then there's the real prospect that advanced entry into the 2nd year of a CS degree programme would be achievable.Any university that unilaterally decided to require Higher Computing as it currently stands as a pre-requisite for entry would, IMO, see application/intake numbers fall rather than increase since, I presume, they would need to harden their first year curriculum and, thus, reject applicant without the relevant pre-requisite knowledge.A sight aside: Strathclyde has been seeing a steady increase in applications year on year since the low-point that coincided with the dot-com bust' a 20% increase in applications this year over last year has been the biggest jump we've experienced for a while. Nevertheless, the general trend across the sector is a decreasing pool of applicants Strathclyde just seems to be bucking that trend.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Hafeez
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16 december 2014, 08:59:02
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