sam

U.S.

former "old" IT worker

Margaret Sambell, head of strategy for e-skills UK, said: "IT is fundamentally important to business and society, and IT is recognised as a subject of strategic importance to the nation."

If this was true, the government would actually be doing something about downsourcing/offshoring, and poor wages. Corporations say they are paying competitive wages, perhaps competitive with indian wages.

Teachers are smarter than you give them credit for, and understand what is happening to current IT workers and their very short careers. Why would a teacher want to try to teach in a field where there will be a declining number of students?

The problem is not the curriculum. With the current trend of constant cost
cutting, downsourcing and offshoring of anything IT related, as a potential
student looking at careers, why would anyone want to go into IT? Other careers
are more stable, with a higher likelyhood of making it to retirement. There are
too many actual examples of I.T. workers having their jobs churned. Upon finding
another job, they find that the pay offered is below a "living wage". For the older
worker, they eventually find out that they are "too old", if they get any response at all.