Employment and IT Graduates
Figures have show than unemployment is the highest in IT graduates , at least in the UK…but I think many people involved in IT would say the same is for Malaysia.
More worrying for the IT industry is the decline in the number of students wanting to study IT. The level of students applying for computer science degrees has halved in the last five years, leaving a shortfall in new entrants needed each year, according to Hecsu.
This is at least true for Monash Malaysia, the IT faculty here is very small, and my intake very tiny. Has people lost interest in IT after the Dot-com bubble of 2000?
But with the increasing popularity of social networking, will this reflect a renewed interest in IT?
A problem with the Figures is they do not state the main cause for the large reason of unemployment. At least in Malaysia it is regarded as lack of skill sets. How about the reason for the decline in students applying for IT degrees?
