OK guys i think i change my mind about engineering.. Im really more interested in programming but i also want to learn a lot about hardware, networking and the internet section(html,php etc) so....
1 Would i be a good move to go to monash,UJ UCT etc and do a normal IT course degree preferably(please help me choose the best)
The only person who could answer that is a person who's been to all those Universities and then it would still be biased. My friend went to Unisa and then came to Tuks, he went to Unisa up till second year level before coming to Tuks, in a nutshell, Tuks is better in his opinion BUT Unisa wasn't bad.
2 Is UNISA as bad as people make it sound,apparently you dont even attend they throw you some DVD's and its self study from there..
Dude it's IT, they take people without a degree these days, there's a shortage, Unisa/Tuks/UCT doesn't give a crap where you got the degree, if you got it from a University (note the word University), you'll get work, colleges, diploma's whatever I'm not sure about.
3 Is the degree at UNISA recognized?
Yep.
Let me paint you a little picture, this year the IT department at Tuks have had 4 employers weeks (basically a bunch of companies pitch up and attempt to interest you in working for them), that, to my knowledge was more than any of the other departments, those weeks are stacked, if you just walk in the IT building you're surrounded by people who usually:
First ask you what year you are and what you are studying - if you answer 3rd year IT they light up and start giving you free stuff (not mayor but you do get stuff, biltong, toys, all kinds of things). I don't even have to walk to the stalls or even look interested and people still come ask me what I study, what year, come work for use, etc. etc. etc.
Now maybe that was just coincidence but sure seems to me and my friends like they are seriously desperate, FIY the ones that come up to talk to you don't always seems like the best choices but fact is doesn't seem like it'll be all that hard to get a job.
Let it be know that I haven't actually looked for a job outside the University, I'm finishing my honors first and then getting a job so I have no experience in that field but one of my friends needed cash desperately to finish his degree and he got a job very easily part time to make some cash.
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