Project Work - minimum 3 months Project work at university is vital to develop these skills, and we recommend that at least 3 months be allocated for the project and the related thesis. It is recognised that there are difficulties in assessing the performance of individual students when team projects are being undertaken. Nevertheless, the Career Space consortium believes some experience of team working on a significant real project is an essential element of a good ICT education. The challenge of assessing and crediting team-work by students needs to be addressed by academia. As these skills are deemed essential core skills in the ICT industry, it has developed means of assessing and improving them in its workforce. Academia might benefit from this industry experience of assessment of these skills.
All these elements are included in fig.4, which can be considered the general structure of a ‘model ICT curriculum’ as recommended by the Career Space Consortium.
