On 11.01.2012 13:21, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
The statistics on the numbers going to university to study computing make sobering reading. In 2003 around 16,500 students applied to UCAS for places on computer science courses. By 2007 that had fallen tojust 10,600, and although it's recovered a little to 13,600 last year,
This may be a rational response to the changing employment prospects for software engineers over the last decade. Currently I only have numbers for the US economy, but if the UK is similar then employment levels for software engineers have either been stagnant or declining since 2000. This is probably partly due to technological unemployment, partly due to fashion and partly due to offshoring/deskilling.
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