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UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

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On the Migration Advisory Committee its head released a report with some comments in inter-company transfers:

www.express.co.uk/news/politics/636241/Home-Office-Cameron-charge-firms-cheap-foreign-labour

«Multinational companies bringing in employees from abroad do not have to make National Insurance contributions for the first year and generally pay them less than Britons would earn. Indian IT workers most commonly use the route into the country. “They work with a consultancy then get farmed out to other companies on third-party contracts,” Prof Metcalf said. “What you get is lower IT costs for the clients. That’s a benefit for British companies but there’s less upskilling of British workers.

“British computer science graduates have the highest unemployment rates of any graduates.”»

Clearer then that...

I sometimes worry about all the suckers who are being drawn into a computer science degree to keep computer science departments in business (they expanded enormously around 1999-2001) and whose future is to have their job off-shored to a McProgrammer from a place where the cost of living is a fraction of the cost of living in the UK.

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