We all know that before we are admitted to university in the UK, there are standard entry requirements that are needed. These include your Maths and English GCSE alongside other pre-requisite's depending on your chosen discipline. I was refused entry to a Maths undergraduate degree because I did not have 'Math's A levels' even if I had other qualifications and the propensity to display my arithmetic skills.
As I continue reading and researching about Digital Literacies and looking at how technology is quickly advancing and increasingly being integrated in our daily lives, I cant help but pose the question: Should there be a required standard in digital literacies for those that want to join higher education? I know very well that digital literacies can be broad and the task would be on educational bodies to regulate and define the parameters of these standards, however, trends in this subject area change very often. Being in the technology industry, I know very well that this and many other factors would make the task of setting standards a difficult one. Still, we are getting into higher eduction, graduating as professionals, and being released in the digital jungle some of us with the digital skills by default because of the course we did, and others with just little know how. Where do we draw the line and who is responsible for drawing this line? The student or the Educational bodies? I personally think that most of these digital literacy skills can be acquired at lower levels of education and that universities should set a minimum standard as part of entry level requirements to combat some of the issues being faced by graduates in the work place.
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