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Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by gaius on Monday September 01, 2014 @04:31PM (#8254565)
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_computer_science.htm

14% unemployment among CS grads in the UK (double that of law). Yet you name it, the government wants more women, minorities, children, you name it to go into the field.

Something doesn't add up here.

Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by pbhjpbhj on Monday September 01, 2014 @04:52PM (#8254643)
We're talking coding here, not computer science. Computer scientists make the developments that then get engineered in to the tools we use to code with, the platforms we use to code on, etc..

People using computers more in a greater range of disciplines at a deeper level doesn't seem like it would necessarily impact on CS at all - there might be more standardisation reducing the demand for new tools. There might be more focussed advances where one or two CS workers get their work adopted in to current tech. Both these things would lead to less employment of CS grads (in CS) wouldn't they?

It might also be that specialists without domain knowledge are not as desirable as those with domain knowledge who can go on to train in CS (or to add IT skills, which I just noticed are wrapped up with the stats you quote for CS).

To add an extra prong to the enquiry, does http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_mathematics.htm showing only 55% of those studying mathematics having a job mean that we should not teach mathematics to the general school population?

Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by gaius on Monday September 01, 2014 @04:58PM (#8254662)
Unemployed 9% on the page you link to.
Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by evan_ on Monday September 01, 2014 @04:41PM (#8254605)
Programming is relevant to more than just computer science grads- it seems like every week there's a story of a motivated professional who is not what you would typically call a programmer finding a way to automate a task through programming and saving huge amounts of time and money in the process.
Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by jiggy2011 on Monday September 01, 2014 @05:04PM (#8254688)
That includes "IT" degrees, many of which are low end courses at former polytechnics designed to churn out graduates, I don't know how that compares to the unemployment rate of "real" CS.
Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by gaius on Monday September 01, 2014 @05:16PM (#8254724)
Re:BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows by jiggy2011 on Monday September 01, 2014 @05:22PM (#8254744)
That's listed as "Information Systems" the original page linked is "Computer Science/IT" rather than pure CS.