Gloomy Forecast for IT Work Force
Posted September 27th, 2007 by Andrew PopoffThe topic was education and the talk was not optimistic at the Institute for a Competitive Workforce’s Sept. 25 workshop. A part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ICW drew several hundred participants to its event, held with the goal of promoting effective and sustainable business and education/work force partnerships.
“Our continued leadership is not inevitable and may not be sustainable,” Fred Tipson, Microsoft’s senior policy counsel, said in an afternoon panel discussion focused on upgrading the current and future work force’s digital literacy and math and science skills. “The question is whether our work force or some other country’s will be beneficiaries of new technology.”
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