IBM to move up to 4,730 software jobs out of US. IBM Corp. plans to move up to 4,730 programming jobs from the U.S. to India, China and other countries, according to a report published Monday in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal. [InfoWorld: Top News]
What should Universities do? Should we continue to teach material that will not be useful to the students because they cannot compete equitably with programmers and analysts offshore? What should be the ideal curriculum? I do not believe the IT industry has any clue on this.
Recently, we asked a retired senior IT executive about the direction IT curricula should take. "Keep teaching the same stuff", that was effectively the answer!
Are students, undergraduate and graduate, any better at thinking about their future in IT? Not from what I have observed! Just give us the same old stuff! All we want is a "good grade." Please don't ask us to think and explore!
Perhaps it is time to start to teach and research in India or China!
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