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Parents Blamed For Low IT Enrolment Levels

Posted on Thursday, October 25 at 13:02 by N Say
He is one of about 100 computer scientists, academics, industry leaders and government officials gathered at a Toronto conference aimed at understanding why interest in computer science and computer engineering programs is dropping across Canada. Research shows 89,000 new IT jobs will be required in Canada in the next three to five years, but universities are only graduating some 3,000 students annually. Between 2002 and 2005, enrolment in IT-related programs fell by 11 per cent. .... http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=eb17c46f-b6f1-400a-9094-0cf64d0db0f1&k=27999

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  1. by N Say
    Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:20 pm
    That brain drain comment doesn't make any sense, forget it.

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  2. by gaulois
    Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:42 pm
    Perhaps this has to do with the interest in "trades" that do not obsolete themselves so quickly and cannot be outsourced so easily to a cheap labour country.

    Perhaps the IT lobby needs to look at itself in more depth rather than "blaming the parents".

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  3. by Chris Harder
    Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:42 pm
    Disengage their minds, sabotage their health
    Promote sex and war and violence in the kindergartens
    Blame the parents and teachers; it's their fault, "Annuit Coeptis"

    'Blame the parents', is that the best you can do with your tax dollar funded studies, Jonathan Schaeffer?

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  4. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:20 pm
    Funny, anyone who's been paying attention lately knows the IT industry, and High Tech in general has had a major boost in Alberta. Some of the leaders in Nanotech are here, and the UofA just opened it's Nanotech research centre.

    I also blame the fact that kids know names like 'Brittney Spears' but not 'Dean Kamen'; 'Albert Einstien' but not 'Edward Whitten'.

    Bah! My kids will learn that Brian May, besides being a member of 'Queen' also has a degree in Astrophysics; 'Mr. Bean/Blackadder' also has a degree in Electrical Engineering'.

    Education is just the place to start. The DotBoom also showed us that 'paper' degrees with no experience behind them = trouble.

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  5. by N Say
    Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:50 am
    It's "Witten", not "Whitten"

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  6. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:39 pm
    Yep. But I still knew his name, without looking it up! ;)

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