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Estonian ICT EducationAn Outsider’s Inside View
Marlon Dumas
University of Tartu
14 Dec. 2010
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Estonian ICT Education – Status
Quantity (rough estimates)
• ≈ 10000 ICT Professionals
• ≈ 2500-3000 students (+ vocational)
• ≈ 400-450 Bachelors graduates p.a.
• ≈ 150-200 Masters graduates p.a.
• ≈ 15-20 PhDs p.a.• ≈ 1:20 Faculty-student ratio (excl. research staff)
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Estonian ICT Education – Status
Quality (from UT’s perspective)
• High employability in Estonia and abroad
• Good feedback from visitors and reviewers
• Employers whine, but overall satisfied
• Average student ratings (but high variability)
• Low participation and rather low rankings in international student contests
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But not good enough…?
• High attrition
• Low Bac-to-Masters conversion
• Industry asks for more and better
• Lack of specialists in several fields
• Graduates lack communication/team skills 4
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IT is Outward-Looking
• IT is and will remain inherently inter-disciplinary
• Ergo:– Teach IT outside IT schools– Bring non-IT graduates into IT schools and
vice-versa– Foster teamwork between IT students and
students from other fields
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IT Knows no Boundaries
• IT either comes to you or IT leaves you
• Ergo:– If you have capacity, admit international students– Give yourself the means of keeping them…– Send your students abroad (and back)– International academics will help – short-term– But long-term: local academic staff getting
international projection would help even more! 6
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Good IT is Better Than Bad IT
• One “good” (well-trained) IT specialist is more productive than 5-10 poorly-trained ones
» Adapted from “The Mythical Man-Month” by F. Brooks
• Ergo– Do not expand at the cost of quality– Prune where needed…
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Not enough good apples?
8Maine-ly Apples
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How to do IT?• Together!
– IT is global, our “competitors” are outside Estonia!
– Duplication of efforts is not viable!
• Progressively and measurably– Let’s get the objectives, metrics and targets right!
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And what’s the price tag?
If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance…
Derek Bok & Andy McIntyre
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