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Skills Needed For a Future In IT
Lucas123 writes "An increase in the pace of change in IT has created new dynamics for jobs involving the Web, mobile computing and virtualization. For those looking to enter the marketplace in years to come, 30-somethings hoping to upgrade their skills, or those who'll be winding their careers down by 2020, skill sets are drastically changing. For example, graphics chips are doubling in capacity every six months. That translates into a thousandfold increase in capacity over a five-year period — the average shelf life of most game platforms. 'We've never seen anything like it in any industry.' Colleges are in continual catch-up mode and have only recently added project management and soft skills training to computer science programs. According to one expert, 'They're about five years behind where they need to be.'"
Speak Indian or Chinese
Those who can do, those who can't teach. My guess is that you are either an educator or a career student, which is it?
The reality is that you have things backwards. Academia only exists to prepare people for an industry, and has become a bloated bureaucracy much in the same way politics evolved. This isn't a chicken and the egg situation as it is well understood that education systems exist to support industry, not vise versa. In recent history we have allowed them to stray drastically from the purpose, in the name of "broadening horizons" and are paying the consequences. When a person can spend four to six years in an educational system and not learn any applicable skill to be used in the real world, the education system has failed.
It is very much in the real of industry professionals to question the effectiveness of the education system, when the resulting graduates of said system are unable to function in the industry. Academia is a byproduct of industry that has derailed and become a festering pool of special interest and abused psychological programming. Tools that were intended to be used to program impressionable youth as skilled artists, engineers, and professionals, now are used to produce preprogrammed puppets and useless self-righteous idiots. With enough time, it will undoubtedly become a pseudo religion of it's own.... as demonstrated by it's dedicated clerics such as yourself.
Can't be either party. Though it will need to lean heavily conservative. Must work logically after all.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?