Merseyside Digital Development

New degree focuses on Microsoft technology July 5, 2007

From the Liverpool Daily Post © 2007

Liverpool Hope University is to become the first British academic institution to offer a degree in Microsoft technology.

The BSc Honours degree in Microsoft.NET Technologies will give students skills in desktop, server and mobile technologies.

The course will take its first intake of about 25 students in September 2008, and will give them cutting edge technology expertise in the world’s most widely used computer software.

The new degree is a direct response to the dominance of Microsoft in the world of commerce and business.

Undergraduates on the course are prepared for a career in any area of information technology, but are given additional depth of expertise in Microsoft.NET technology.

Hope’s School of Computing is part of its Business and Computer Sciences Deanery. Founded five years ago it now has 900 students and 65 staff at the Childwall campus.

Dr John Brinkman, Dean of Business and Computer Sciences said: “The Microsoft.NET degree is an example of our strategy to deliver courses and, by extension, students who not only have a sound understanding of the core principles of their discipline, but also have skills which are directly relevant to the world of work.

“We have worked hard to increase our links with the Merseyside business community and courses like this are a direct result of our understanding of the world outside academia.

“We believe a particular strength of the Deanery is the breadth and depth of industrial and commercial experience which the staff bring to bear, with many of them having spent considerable time in industry before entering the field of research and teaching.

“This has a direct impact on the quality and kind of teaching we offer, with courses which offer real utilitarian value to both students and employers.”

More information here: http://www.hope.ac.uk/content/view/203/41/