Sridharan, Balakrishna

The Appropriateness of UK Information Systems Education for Students from Developing Countries

(1999)

Educating and training indigenous people either locally or abroad is a means of providing knowledge about a particular technology. Failure to produce personnel of required calibre by traditional sources in developing countries has made them consider the option of sending their personnel abroad for education and training. A high proportion of students from developing countries came to the UK to follow such programmes, and their number is bound to increase as the rate of technology acquisition increases in their country. How appropriate are these programmes for the skill needs of developing countries, and to what extent do they meet the requirements of different stakeholders?

Supervisor: Shirin Madon, PhD

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