Wednesday, May 05, 2004
A new report alerts us to a growing challenge: not enough young people are heading into careers in engineering and science. In the past, we did not have to worry so much, because foreign students came in to fill the gap.
Increasingly, though, curbs on immigration and more intense global competition are drawing these foreigners to other markets.
United States ranks 17th in the share of its 18-to-24-year-olds who earn natural science and engineering degrees, behind Taiwan and South Korea, Ireland and Italy. In 1975, we were third.
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Not enough scientists
