Re: There is no employment rebound for IT workers. Recent college grads or new entrants into IT can't even get jobs on help desks, which are now increasingly moving offshore.
Don't worry.... The US's metastasis into a Judeofascist monster is frightening more and more whiz kids who, only five years ago, would have cried out for their piece of the American Dream. But then, who's eager to graduate in a country where some teachers claim that the earth is flat and evolution is a hoax? clue:
U.S. Loses Clout in Student Drought
A significant drop in foreign applications to higher education establishments in the United States has a prominent former diplomat worried about declining American influence in Asia. Stephen Bosworth describes the decline in international applications as "profoundly disturbing." Most observers attribute the decline to heightened security concerns involving more rigorous checks and restrictions on foreign students in the U.S. following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bosworth, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and current dean of the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, said on a visit to Hong Kong that foreign students who have graduated from U.S. colleges are "one of our greatest foreign-policy assets." He added that if foreign applications continued to drop, "we're going to be in real trouble." The U.S.-based Chronicle of Higher Education reported in March that American universities saw the smallest increase in enrolment of international students in nearly a decade, down to 0.6% growth in 2003 from 6.4% a year earlier. According to the national Educational Testing Service, for the current academic year the number of students taking the Graduate Record Examination, a standardized post-graduate-level entrance exam, has dropped 50% for students from China and 37% for those from India.
From: feer.com (April 1, 2004 issue)
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You'd better heed Bosworth lest the US will turn into the Amish version of North Korea.... |
