Students think IT is boring
By Nicole Kobie,
Mellors-Bourne and others at the session said encouraging people to study computing would require a campaign to show that working in IT is not boring – which should be helped by the increased use of tech by younger people. “We must not just excite students about technology, but show there are good careers there too,” he said.
They also called for better promotion of the subject as a career choice, as just three per cent of the non-computing students surveyed said it was well-promoted by industry or by schools.
But when it comes down to it, the government, industry and academia need to work together to get more students into computing subjects. “If you want more people in jobs, you need more people in higher education,” Mellors-Bourne said.
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