ComputerWeekly recently ran a story on the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency survey showing that 10% of UK IT graduates were still unemployed several months after graduation(see this). In comparison, 8% of graduates of creative arts and communications were unemployed. The average level of unemployment among all graduates of the academic year 2006-07 was 6%.
Note also the statistics of students all around our country taking up studies for Engineering or Technology in computer science or Information Technology. Are there enough jobs for these folks? What do they really know? (not just in IT but anything else even in general?). Is it really good for India to have such a large scale monoculture of trade skills? Who is going to build our buildings and cars if everybody knows just how to code in Java?
Note also the statistics of students all around our country taking up studies for Engineering or Technology in computer science or Information Technology. Are there enough jobs for these folks? What do they really know? (not just in IT but anything else even in general?). Is it really good for India to have such a large scale monoculture of trade skills? Who is going to build our buildings and cars if everybody knows just how to code in Java?
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