Ict curricula Guidelines (2nd draft)

Figure 2 Extent to which current curricula match skills requirements of Career Space Core Generic Skills Profiles shown in order of highest match

Another conclusion was that most study programs focus on the skills profiles "Software and Application Development", "System Specialist" and "Software Architecture and Design". About 50 % of all programmes cover these skills profiles fully.

Figure 3 Current faculty origin of programme coverage for Career Space Generic Skills Profiles
Our study also showed that there is a different focus between Engineering and Informatics faculties (Fig. 3).
The Informatics faculties design their study programmes around the software oriented issues. Their graduates seem to be well prepared for activities in areas such as "Software Architecture & Design", "IT Business Consultancy", and "Software and Applications Development" (www.career-space.com). The Engineering departments, and here particularly the electrical and electronics departments, prepare students for activities in telecommunications and hardware design. This approach covers core skills profiles such as "Communications Network Design", "Digital Design", and "Digital
Signal Processing Applications (DSP) Design", as well as "Technical Support" and "Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering".

As one would expect the results reflect the traditional emphasis and differences between ICT curricula and the subjects studied in Engineering and Informatics faculties, depending on the department responsible for delivering the ICT course.