haha yeah right, "leftists 'r statists" unlike those intelligent, erudite, forward thinking Tea Party Repukes, led by Sarah Palin to that shining city on a hill....

from what I've seen in the UK (as a Yank working at Oxford for 5 yrs) there are a hell of a lot of schools that are trying to give "games" degrees; I've seen all sorts of second & third-tier schools trying to put together programs for a "Bachelor (or Master's) in Game Programming" etc. when obviously with games you just do it yourself, send a hot demo to a big company, or at best they only recruit kids from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and not the University of Sunderland or Thames Valley University's new Bachelor's degree in Computer Games.

still it's a shame that kids fell for the hype of computing & engineering as the great career of the future -- considering that's at the bottom of the list for employment! Also pretty much every other field (liberal arts, etc) you can be "mediocre" and still get a good job or cultivate a career -- but in computing if you're not the top or perceived at the top from a top school, you're pretty much stuck.

well this news is probably why I have such a hell of a time getting a new UK work permit! and UK IT salaries are pretty bad too, I'd say often half what a similar job in the US pays (maybe worse now since the pound has dropped). I worked at Oxford for 5 years and what they hand out as a computer science degree is so theoretical and impractical (in the real world) i.e. little actual programming or software engineering, I can imagine these kids have a tough time.

Still -- it's a bit daunting as the worst jobs (for employment) on the list are what was touted for decades as the careers of the future -- computing & engineering. And for all those claiming that the liberal arts et al majors with less unemployment are all working at McDonalds - you really don't have any evidence of this. Or similarly, desperate IT grads would take McDonalds jobs as well therefore balancing out the numbers.

But it surely couldn't be offshoring or anything, eh?