The situation Sucks... The answer is clear though.
1) H1b needs to be stopped. It needs to be turned into an immigration program which requires qualified people to apply for and retain citizenship.
If we find people from other countries that actually have skills we need to import, they are an asset and need to be encouraged to stay. No temporary work permit.. Only a track to citizenship justified by their skills.
2) the same is true for scholarship programs. Why would we educate people and then force them home to another country.
Imagine.. we get great people from all over the world who come to get an education and actually stay here and create companies and jobs.
3) colleges need to provide 2 year associates degrees to create US tech workers that are as equally uneducated as the average h1b.
Most of the junior computer science jobs i have seen shouldn't require a 4 year engineering degree. From what I have experienced from interviewing, other cultures do not have the issues with lying (or drastically bending the truth) that natives do. A 4 year engineering degree requirement makes an artificially high barrier to entry and requires a higher salary to justify the effort and associated dropout risk.
It will never happen. Colleges make more money from 4 year programs. Companies like their slave labor. Government is spineless (when it comes to standing up against the ones funding their campaign).
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The situation Sucks... The answer is clear though.
1) H1b needs to be stopped. It needs to be turned into an immigration program which requires qualified people to apply for and retain citizenship.
If we find people from other countries that actually have skills we need to import, they are an asset and need to be encouraged to stay. No temporary work permit.. Only a track to citizenship justified by their skills.
2) the same is true for scholarship programs. Why would we educate people and then force them home to another country.
Imagine.. we get great people from all over the world who come to get an education and actually stay here and create companies and jobs.
3) colleges need to provide 2 year associates degrees to create US tech workers that are as equally uneducated as the average h1b.
Most of the junior computer science jobs i have seen shouldn't require a 4 year engineering degree. From what I have experienced from interviewing, other cultures do not have the issues with lying (or drastically bending the truth) that natives do. A 4 year engineering degree requirement makes an artificially high barrier to entry and requires a higher salary to justify the effort and associated dropout risk.
It will never happen. Colleges make more money from 4 year programs. Companies like their slave labor. Government is spineless (when it comes to standing up against the ones funding their campaign).