Stuart Fawcett

London

IT Manager

The majority of businesses require a wide array of non programming IT skills, PC support, Systems Admin, Systems integration, project management & systems selection. The percentage of actual programming required is often relatively small depending on which enterprise applications you build you business upon.
To anticipate, teach & appreciate all the available technologies 3 years before producing a graduate is clearly impossible, so are we looking at radically restructured degrees, a foundation programming year followed by industry sponsored specialisms in say ERP by SAP & Oracle?
Isn’t this where we lose the ability to develop graduates with the capability to build the next generation of IT systems. How do we provide prospects for the majority of graduates and yet build expert core skills for the next IT generation.