Universities and the IT crisis revisited

Shortages of professional IT workers are a major cause of concern for the future of Australia’s IT industry. Though there has been a sharp increase in IT training at Australia’s universities during the 1990s, more than half of this increase has been directed at overseas full-fee paying students. Only a minority of these full-fee paying students are utilising the new opportunities for permanent residence available since mid-1999. The appropriate policy response should be to increase IT training places for local students. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s