[IP] CRA Bulletin, October 25, 2005
CRA Bulletin
October 25, 2005
www.cra.org/bulletin
====== Headlines ======
- "STEM Employment and Salaries, 1994-2003"
- "GAO Report on Federal STEM Programs and Trends"
- "Math & CIS Undergrad Enrollments Drop at Canadian Universities"
- "PCAST Assumes PITAC’s Role"
- "Migration Patterns of S&E Doctorates"
- "Global R&D in 2004, Projected to 2006"
- "Extended Mass Layoffs and Outsourcing/Offshoring"
- "IT Sector Employment"
- "Offshoring and the IT Workforce"
- "Plans to Study or Work Abroad Among U.S.-Born S&E Doctorate
Recipients"
====== Stories ======
STEM Employment and Salaries, 1994-2003
The previous post discussed a recent GAO report on science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and data
trends. Part of the report discusses STEM employment and salaries.
Between 1994 and 2003, employment in all STEM fields increased 23
percent, and 78 percent in the mathematics/computer sciences.
Employment in non-STEM fields increased 17 percent...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=61
GAO Report on Federal STEM Programs and Trends
A recent GAO report found that only about half of the programs run by
13 federal civilian agencies that are designed to increase the
numbers of students and graduates or improve educational programs in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have
been evaluated for their effectiveness. Without evaluations, the GAO
argues that it is difficult to determine which methods are successful
at improving participation in STEM fields...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=60
Math & CIS Undergrad Enrollments Drop at Canadian Universities
Canadian university undergraduate enrollments in mathematics,
computer and information sciences (M&CIS) declined for the second
consecutive year, to 35,880 students in 2003/04. This was the only
major field to show a decline in both 2002/03 and 2003/04. Within
M&CIS, computer and information sciences saw a 7.5% drop in
enrollments in 2003/04.
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=59
PCAST Assumes PITAC’s Role
President Bush ordered that the President’s Council of Advisors for
Science and Technology (PCAST) shall now serve as the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=58
Migration Patterns of S&E Doctorates
Over 70 percent of U.S.-born, AY1999 S&E doctorate recipients
received their degree from an institution in a state other than the
one in which they first entered college, according to an NSF
InfoBrief...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=57
Global R&D in 2004, Projected to 2006
R&D spending by the U.S. totalled $301.5 billion in 2004, according
to a report by R&D Magazine and Battelle. The next biggest spenders
were Japan ($119.8 billion) and China ($108.9 billion). At 2.7
percent of GDP, U.S. R&D spending came in 7th among 33 countries...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=56
Extended Mass Layoffs and Outsourcing/Offshoring
Data from 2004 show that a higher proportion of extended mass layoffs
among large employers in the IT sector resulted in work moving
outside of the U.S. than among industries overall, according to a
report by Sharon Brown and Lewis Siegel in Monthly Labor Review...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=55
IT Sector Employment
Below are two helpful tables from the Monthly Labor Review article
that I discussed in an earlier post. They detail the size of the
labor force and unemployment rates among IT-sector SOC codes. As with
employment projections, these tables show how diverse the “IT
workforce” is...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=54
Offshoring and the IT Workforce
According to a recent Monthly Labor Review article by Robert
Bednarzik, offshoring has played a relatively moderate role in
overall job losses in the IT sector, although it has had a stronger
impact on certain occupations...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=53
Plans to Study or Work Abroad Among U.S.-Born S&E Doctorate Recipients
The number of U.S.-born science and engineering (S&E) doctorate
recipients with definite plans to work or study abroad has been about
300-400 each year since the mid-1960s, or between 2 and 4 percent of
graduates, according to an NSF InfoBrief. The majority (71 percent)
of those who went abroad did so for postdoctoral study...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=52
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