U poslednjem izvestaju IFC (svetska banka) o IT industriji u Srbiji u odeljku Edukacija, vrlo se ostro upozorava na stetnost NL Pro Grupe u daljem razvoju IT u Srbiji, narocito u javnim sluzbama.
Deo koji govori o NL Pro Group:
Special Note: Very low general knowledge about IT, its purpose and mechanisms, is a very fruitful ground for "experts" of questionable expertise, offering no value for money. They have very strong PR and marketing strategies and they play on the card of ignorance, fear and national pride. Perfect example would be a company named NL Pro Group, which in author's opinion did more damage in 2 years than the decade of wars.
They offer 7day courses for C++, UNIX, and what they call "Mastering of the Computer". The level of knowledge gained is far less than what one may get in an average training course center and by using techniques of memory mapping, fast reading and Silva methods, they temporally "embed" information into student's brain. They produce fear and discomfort about research, free usage of Internet and software packages and more than often, with purposely incorrect instructions, develop student's dependence on the teacher and center's system. Some of the examples are: "You must not use the "save" shortcut in MS Word (floppy disk icon on tool bar) or else your computer will brake.", "Windows is a programming language used by Microsoft to spy on it's users", "You need only 30 words of English to master all programming skills", "You need only 15 minutes to master the fast typing skill".
Since there are no standards and bodies for consumer protection in any area of professional life in Serbia, schemes like this are often. Still, as we could say that we should let the market decide, very worrying fact is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Military bodies signed a contract with NL Pro Group for training of their officers. Here we may conclude that there is no awareness nor even basic interest or strategy for IT training of the government and accompanying bodies, and as such it is totally defenseless against personal agendas (corruption) and plans of local adventurers.
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