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Not fired yet!

I made the local paper: Slutet nära för Lunds datavetare, which (besides calling me Thore Husman) also makes it sound as if I am already fired. This, at least so far, has not yet happened: I’m certainly immensely frustrated; but I’m not yet fired. (In case my bank is reading this…)

What is true is that Lund will no longer have a Computer Science education. (There are several Computer Engineering programmes, and a programme in Information Systems, however.) As far as I know, that’s unique for a large university (or just a medium one). There has been one analysis of the consequences of this decision, by former dean Bertil Holmberg. Two quotes at least are interesting from a university perspective:

Ur ett övergripande universitetsperspektiv förlorar Lunds universitet möjligheten att ge en allsidig och djup programmerarutbildning på solid vetenskaplig grund

Om utbildningen elimineras ur fakultetens utbud försvinner universitetets möjlighet att erbjuda en genomarbetad CS-utbildning – allt under förutsättning att inte LTH bygger upp ett motsvarande program eller programvariant.

The latter would be a great solution, but it does not seem to happen. Bertil’s report is public, [PDF].

Confused about Computer Science (datavetenskap) and Computer Engineering (datateknik) and Information Systems (systemvetenskap)? I recently tried to explain what it all means on another blog. In Swedish (kind of).

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 | Category: News | Permanent link