Topic: Leadership Issues
NPR ran an interview this morning. Apparently April 1st is more than April Fools Day. It's also the day that U.S. businesses get to reserve the number of visas they think they will need for the year to bring in foreign workers. And, according to the interviewee, this is the only day it can happen. Why? Because, he said, there is such a dearth of qualified scientists and engineers in the U.S., that companies need to look around the world to find applicants they can bring here. And, all available visa slots will be gobbled up by COB today. Although he was a bit cagey about the salary issue (the idea that foreign-born candidates will work for less than U.S. citizens will), he did point out that he wasn't talking about outsourcing the work, he was talking about bringing these professionals to the states where, one can assume, they would soon know about it if they were being grossly underpaid.
This ties in with this year's Technology Counts report, released last week by Ed Week. The theme of this year's report is STEM education. If you haven't looked at it already, you need to.
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