Despite the growth of the IT industry and the high demand for IT skills university departments seem unable to attract enough student to cater for the needs of the profession.There seems to be a misconception about the...Despite the growth of the IT industry and the high demand for IT skills university departments seem unable to attract enough student to cater for the needs of the profession.There seems to be a misconception about the difference between IT user skills and the discipline of Computing.This article attempts to do three things:1)reinforce the view that a crisis of IT skills shortage is looming;2)reiterate the fact that computing science is an exciting discipline that is central to the knowledge economy and that career prospects in IT-related jobs are very good despite the fears surrounding outsourcing and 3)suggest that HE computing departments must be flexible enough to embrace a two-facetted challenge:a)the changing landscape of IT Skills and b)the high hopes and aspirations of the first generation of our digital-native student community.展开更多
文摘Despite the growth of the IT industry and the high demand for IT skills university departments seem unable to attract enough student to cater for the needs of the profession.There seems to be a misconception about the difference between IT user skills and the discipline of Computing.This article attempts to do three things:1)reinforce the view that a crisis of IT skills shortage is looming;2)reiterate the fact that computing science is an exciting discipline that is central to the knowledge economy and that career prospects in IT-related jobs are very good despite the fears surrounding outsourcing and 3)suggest that HE computing departments must be flexible enough to embrace a two-facetted challenge:a)the changing landscape of IT Skills and b)the high hopes and aspirations of the first generation of our digital-native student community.
