The Changing Face of Computer Science

For another facet of CS education, HangingChad writes "MSNBC is carrying an interesting article on the changing demographics of IT workers and education. The upshot of the article is that older, working adults are taking IT related courses for advancement while comp sci continues to slide as a career choice in college, which the researchers in the article attribute to perception issues." From the article: "In fact, as the technology-dependent United States struggles to stay ahead of the Bangalores of the world, the Higher Education Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles found significantly fewer students at the college level -- 60 percent fewer -- wanted to study computer science in 2004 as opposed to the year 2000. "

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Too many IT workers

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Is it just me or is it that the IT sector is the one complaining most about outsourcing? Why would you go into IT at a time like this, these are the exact jobs that are prime targets for outsourcing because they are not that difficult, can easily be done in a remote locations and have pretty easy to find common requirements. To make the situation worse as software gets better and more efficient less IT workers are required.

Why would you pursue IT at this point in time?