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Edith Cowan University (ECU) was recently granted level 1 accreditation of its Computer Science Degree by the Australian Computer Society. Preliminary investigations, however, clearly indicated that, on completion of their studies, graduates could not perform first line maintenance on a Personal Computer (PC) to a professional standard with due regard to safety, both to themselves and the equipment. Nor could they install communication cards, cables and network operating system or manage a population of networked PCs to an acceptable commercial standard. Further, it was noted that the degree provides few options to study health & safety, ethical, legal or human resource management issues that a graduate must address in preparation for a professional career in computer and network management. It appears that this may also be the case with computer science courses at other universities in Australia …