
By Will Sturgeon
Published: Thursday 26 August 2004
Our kids are seeing software developers working th...
Anonymous
The previous comment is correct - if you put in th...
Roger Huffadine
It's not just whether kids want to take IT, it's w...
Greta Smalley
Makes a change from the 80's when I.T was up and c...
Anonymous
From the children I have spoken to about their ITC...
Kevin Wilson
As a former IT contractor who has not done any wor...
Dave Hunter
GCSE / A levels in computing are not really a good...
Anonymous
Same issues at Uni, they don't want to know the un...
Martin Hepworth
had the same issue with a-level computing at Uni i...
martin Hepworth
Also, it's not true that geekiness has left the in...
Raith
Sadly we are all entering the trap of thinking tha...
Steve Houghton
When they see IT jobs being outsourced to India, M...
Anonymous
One of the reasons that IT does not have a high pr...
Mike Jenkinson
My son finished an HND in computing earlier this y...
Badg Champion
Subject may be seen as dull even for IT fans, and ...
Mike Siggins
As an IT professional with over 30 years in the in...
Anonymous
GCSE IT Coursework would've put me off.
My daug...
Anonymous
So we can't get 'em young and won't employ them ov...
Frank smith
I graduated with a degree in computer science and ...
Anonymous
Why should they bother?
They go to sixth form, ...
Brian Burkill
History! Art! Kids today are crazy!! We don't need...
Mark SPLINTER
Ban overseas outsourcing and greatly raise teacher...
Allan Shriver
Hey! Information Minister! WAKE UP!!!
Anon
But what is IT?
Having read every comment submi...
Anonymous
My local state Primary school has an excellent IT ...
Allan McBain
UK companies are generally run by people who don't...
Andrew Clark
Technology is not well paid relative to the abilit...
Anonymous
Kid's aren't really shunning IT they are just not ...
Anonymous
I read articles like this fairly often, and they a...
geebee
My son just got a Grade A in GCSE IT and is starti...
Ian Jones
Seems to me we're all missing the point here.
IT ...
Steve Berry
I'm a lawyer. I used to be a software engineer wi...
Anonymous
Why should kids be interested in an industry that'...
Poverty programmer
We dont need more people in IT, we need more quali...
Scott
Just stumbled onto this article and about gagged u...
Anonymous
Kids are too smart to fall for this propaganda
...
Anonymous
Degree too difficult? I started my computer educ...
Anonymous
It is truly ludicrous to chastise young people for...
Anonymous
Until I was laid off last year, I worked at a firm...
Daniel
The kids are all right. Glad that kids are been se...
Anonymous
when i was a kid i had a dragon 32 and later a spe...
jono
'A' level computing usually bears little relation ...
Anonymous
Its not like the OLD days
Anonymous
Lecturing in ICT in a FE college, have taught GCSE...
John Latchford
After being involved in Electronics and Hardware D...
Brian Fenton
From this article, I can only conclude that kids t...
David Nofziger
The kids are showing more savvy than the author of...
Anonymous
Dear Ed,
Must take issue with you reprimanding ...
Anonymous
Why bother, when so many IT companies treat their ...
Mr Angry
wow - so many comments - ive no idea if anyone wil...
anthony wilde
My 14 year old daughter is fascinated by IT (parti...
Justin brooks
I would give my kids lots of encouragement to take...
Graham Wharton
I wouldn't encourage my children to take a degree ...
Alex
I'd encourage the 14 year old daughter of Justin B...
Theodore Odeluga
IT industry has inflicted this wound itself by tur...
Robert Privett
Kids know two things that I guess you guys that wr...
Peter Anders
The problem lies in the fact that a GCSE/A level a...
Anonymous
One of your headlines today is that firms will be ...
Anonymous
Our kids are smart and they know and feel about th...
Carlos Meneses
The reason kids are interested in I.T. career choi...
Rebecca Stovall
After they ask you to design AND build your replac...
Anonymous
Teenagers and IT:
I spoke to a friend the other...
John
There are other reasons to shun IT. Kids have see...
Jack
With regards to your article regarding IT takeup o...
Anonymous
I have seen IT people change from being regarded a...
Tony Rundle
IT is like reading and writing, a skill we will ne...
Peter Stearn
ICT it not "cool" because it is over- sold and the...
Derek Marsh
The problem with this entire article is that it lo...
Anonymous
No parent could possibly recommend a career where ...
KHJ MBA CITP
I have been a network engineer, web and Windows pr...
Richard McAdam
If you graduate in IT, your competition is people ...
Anonymous
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