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NSF Reports No Geek Shortage
Baldrson writes "The NSF's report titled 'Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Programs Up in 2003, But Declines for First-Time Foreign Students' (a pdf of the report released for the first time last month) is now available online. In an analysis of the report, Edwin S. Rubenstein of ESR Research states of these latest figures: '4.2 percent of science and engineering PhDs work outside their field of training, chiefly for financial reasons. This further weakens corporate America's claim of a shortage of high-tech workers.'" Interesting to see how things have changed since then.
or are the trolls getting lazier?
they say there's no shortage but the price is still $70 per barrel of geeks!
Go home and shave your giant head of smell with your bad self
I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon, and I can assure you that there is no shortage of geeks in the near future.
3.5% + 3.5% + 70% + 6% = 83%
Where do you get the other 17%?
Affirmative action usually helps blacks and hispanics and women, and works against white and Asian males.
Where do you get the other 17%?
MBAs. Nobody really wants to claim them as their own.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Well, there would obviously be a large shortage of racist sites. Ah the power of the slashdot effect.
No geek shortage where I work, but for what it's worth the Babe Shortage is showing no sign of letting up.