Competitiveness, Truth. And Universities

摘要

We've all heard a great deal about the growing rift in this country between what majors college students are selecting and what set of technical skills many employers are demanding. We've also heard the wildly divergent explanations and canards for that rift: IT is a dead-end field, young people today don't have the attention spans required to master difficult material, offshore outsourcing has sucked the life out of the profession, the pay scales are no longer attractive, and an unholy cabal of Halliburton plus Wal-Mart plus Big Oil plus Big Pharma plus Big Hair are scheming to take over the Internet to ensure that college students don't major in engineering and computer science.