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Addressing the IT Skills Gap: A Conundrum.

Addressing the IT Skills Gap: A Conundrum. Professor Anne De Roeck Council of Professors and Heads of Computing. UK (IT) plc : the success story. Supports UK Plc - 120,000 IT related vacancies/year Globally competitive Innovation driven Complex sector – diverse workforce

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Addressing the IT Skills Gap: A Conundrum.

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  1. Addressing the IT Skills Gap: A Conundrum. Professor Anne De Roeck Council of Professors and Heads of Computing IT Skills and IT HE

  2. UK (IT) plc : the success story • Supports UK Plc - 120,000 IT related vacancies/year • Globally competitive • Innovation driven • Complex sector – diverse workforce • Highest employer of (all) graduate skills (e-skills figures) IT Skills and IT HE

  3. IT skills & Higher Education • Computing/IT HE: strategic contribution • delivers graduates with relevant IT degrees (17% of IT workers) • research graduates contribute to innovation • 19.4% IT graduates have direct business experience (better than business schools!) • re- and up-skilling of non-IT graduates turning to IT sector for jobs (& professionalism agenda) IT Skills and IT HE

  4. Crisis 1: Who wants a career in ICT? • 2001-2006: 46% decline in acceptances to IT degrees • IT job vacancies up by 72% • Supply in decline for foreseeable future • Recruiting “foodchain” • Affects R&D and innovation • Impact on SME • More need for re- and up-skilling IT Skills and IT HE

  5. Crisis 2: Who pays for IT skills? • 2005: Double whammy: fewer students and unit of funding reduced • 2006: Leitch review: employers pay! (£41 billion?) • 2007: Public funding withdrawn for up-skilling (ICT graduates) and re-skilling (non-ICT) graduates • NCC: IT Sector unusual profile • Growing number of SME (can’t pay) • Small number of large corporates (pay for a few) • Shrinking number medium size businesses IT Skills and IT HE

  6. Solutions? • Stimulate interest in IT careers in schools • Bring funding band in line with STEM/SVIS • Address disproportionate impact of public funding regime on IT sector re- and up-skilling IT Skills and IT HE

  7. Cost of Leitch Agenda?(CPHC Sums) • Number of working-age adults with level 4 qualifications: 9.8M, of whom 2.3M will have retired by 2020 • New people needing to be qualified at level 4 by 2020 to meet 40% target for working-age adults: 8.7M • UK domiciled students achieving level 4 in 2005: 397K • Number of years to reach 2020 target at 2005 rate: 22 • Shortfall over 15 years: 2.7M people • Cost of bridging this shortfall (assume in one year) • Public (£5k per student): £13.7B • Loan (£3k per student): £8.2B • Private (£7k per student): £19.2B • Total (£15k per student): £41.1B • Projected cost of staging London Olympics: £9.3B IT Skills and IT HE

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