Solving the IT worker shortage
Assalamualaikum Everyone… Just sharing with all of u about this news abstract fro m The Star Online dated today wrote Jo Timbuong about "Sol ving the IT worker shortage" THE shortage of skilled workers to fill positions in the country's IT industry is a longstanding problem. Everyone agrees that a solution has to be fou nd, but it still evades us. Open-source enterprise -software maker Red Hat said there are 2,000 to 2,500 vaca ncies for IT personnel each month. In comparison, onl y 830 IT students graduate from our universities monthly, said Prof Dr Md Gapar Md Johar, vice-president of Academia and Dean of the Information Science and E ngineering Faculty at the Management Science Universit y. "There definitely is a shortage and the country needs to rely on foreign knowledge workers to plug the gap ," said Daniel Ng, marketing director for Asia Pacific at Red Hat. While many blame the tertiary institutions for no t being able to meet the industry...
