We already have a deficit in qualified technology skills to fill current job openings and have been using H-1B workers to fill the gaps. Maybe if we catch up in graduating more engineers instead of MBAs, we wouldn’t need so many H-1Bs.
Numbers tell the story of a painful contradiction: The United States needs many more tech workers, but schools aren’t providing enough training to meet the requirement.Nine in 10 parents want their child to study computer science, but only one in four schools teach computer programming, according to the organization behind Computer Science Education Week, an annual program dedicated to inspiring K-12 students to take interest in computer science.There are currently 607,708 open computing jobs nationwide, but only 42,969 computer science students graduated into the workforce last year, says org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science.By 2018, 51% of all Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are projected to be in computer science-related fields, according to the White House. The federal government alone needs an additional 10,000 IT and cybersecurity professionals, and the private sector needs many more. “Computer science is not only important for the tech sector,” says a White House fact sheet, “but also for a growing number of industries, including transportation, healthcare, education, and financial services, that are using software to transform their products and services. In fact, more than two-thirds of all tech jobs are outside the tech sector.”And, women and minorities are woefully underrepresented in computer science education (and the computer science field in general). In the fewer than 15 percent of all high schools that offered any advanced placement computer science courses in 2015, only 22% of those who took the exam were girls and only 13% were African-American or Latino students.
superposition over 7 years ago
We already have a deficit in qualified technology skills to fill current job openings and have been using H-1B workers to fill the gaps. Maybe if we catch up in graduating more engineers instead of MBAs, we wouldn’t need so many H-1Bs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_graduates_in_natural_sciences_and_engineering
Kip W over 7 years ago
Just look at those Twits jump over those matchboxes! I can’t wait for the last event.
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Government run by business equals fascism.
alaskajohn1 over 7 years ago
the money bags are running the wrong direction (cash outflow) and the wrong arm is raised
Happy Two Shoes over 7 years ago
Evil liar Trump refuses to admit the Russians had anything to do with the election.
hippogriff over 7 years ago
superposition
Do you imply they are not businesses, or that equality on the Internet will be as dead as equality in schools, restrooms, court rooms, etc.?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
The Middle Class has been chopped and chipped away since 1980 and has shrunk over the time as the working poor increased.
superposition over 7 years ago
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Numbers tell the story of a painful contradiction: The United States needs many more tech workers, but schools aren’t providing enough training to meet the requirement.Nine in 10 parents want their child to study computer science, but only one in four schools teach computer programming, according to the organization behind Computer Science Education Week, an annual program dedicated to inspiring K-12 students to take interest in computer science.There are currently 607,708 open computing jobs nationwide, but only 42,969 computer science students graduated into the workforce last year, says org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science.By 2018, 51% of all Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are projected to be in computer science-related fields, according to the White House. The federal government alone needs an additional 10,000 IT and cybersecurity professionals, and the private sector needs many more. “Computer science is not only important for the tech sector,” says a White House fact sheet, “but also for a growing number of industries, including transportation, healthcare, education, and financial services, that are using software to transform their products and services. In fact, more than two-thirds of all tech jobs are outside the tech sector.”And, women and minorities are woefully underrepresented in computer science education (and the computer science field in general). In the fewer than 15 percent of all high schools that offered any advanced placement computer science courses in 2015, only 22% of those who took the exam were girls and only 13% were African-American or Latino students.
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http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/tech-skills-gap-stem/
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http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/
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https://hbr.org/2014/08/employers-arent-just-whining-the-skills-gap-is-real
Crabbyrino Premium Member over 7 years ago
Tech jobs? Nah, today’s young people would have to work too hard. They want that get-rich-scheme like on Shark Tank.
lcbiiimd over 7 years ago
Some cartoonist needs a safety pin?