The students are not necessarily better educated - there's just more of them. It's certainly an attractive option for the workers themselves. So what is happening, mainly in retail and insurance, is that the code is being sent to Indian software...
Professor Chris Edwards at Cranfield School of Management said higher business degrees, such as MBAs, can round out an individual's skills: "An MBA is a general management development programme and it can be used by people who have a specialist...
The report, Offshore 2003 Romania, claims that not only is the cost of using and providing IT services there much cheaper than India, but there is an abundance of well-educated and highly-skilled workers who also have a better understanding of...
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in April, he said he was disturbed about how his long-term numbers, which admittedly represented an "educated guess," had been hyped. It concluded that the media's focus on so-called offshoring - which...
Price pointed out there's been a 50 per cent drop in applications to computer science degrees over the last five years. The offshoring of entry level IT jobs has exacerbated the skills shortage by making it increasingly difficult for IT workers to...
However the government defended its decision to remove funding for second degrees in IT, saying the cuts will enable more people to study for the first time in higher education which should be a priority.