Experts Warn Of IT Staff Shortage In Armenia
Wednesday 10, August 2005
Armenialiberty.net
By Nane Atshemian
Armenia’s information technology industry, the most advanced in the region, is beginning to experience a shortage of skilled labor that could stall its further growth unless urgent government measures are taken to reform the education system, IT experts warned on Wednesday.
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The existence of relatively cheap and skilled workforce in country that was once dubbed the Silicon Valley of the Soviet Union has been principal factor behind the foreign investments. But According to the director of the Armenian Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), a World Bank-funded agency promoting the sector’s development, Armenia will risk losing this trump card unless it embarks on a sweeping overhaul of its system of higher education.
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The main sources of IT-related knowledge in Armenia are the computer science departments of Yerevan State University and the Armenian State Engineering University. The number of applicants seeking to study there has risen dramatically in recent years, with high school graduates attracted by the prospect of finding a job in a sector where the average monthly wage is currently worth $500. Experienced Armenian programmers may well earn $1,000 or more these days.
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[...]. Armenia’s state-run technical colleges, which were primarily designed to serve the now defunct Soviet-era heavy industry, continue to release every year hundreds of mechanical and other non-IT engineers whose chances of finding a job are slim.
Yengibarian, the EIF director, believes that the government should come up with an IT development plan tied to a broader strategy for the country’s economic development. [...].
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
Armenialiberty.net
By Nane Atshemian
Armenia’s information technology industry, the most advanced in the region, is beginning to experience a shortage of skilled labor that could stall its further growth unless urgent government measures are taken to reform the education system, IT experts warned on Wednesday.
[...]
The existence of relatively cheap and skilled workforce in country that was once dubbed the Silicon Valley of the Soviet Union has been principal factor behind the foreign investments. But According to the director of the Armenian Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), a World Bank-funded agency promoting the sector’s development, Armenia will risk losing this trump card unless it embarks on a sweeping overhaul of its system of higher education.
[...]
The main sources of IT-related knowledge in Armenia are the computer science departments of Yerevan State University and the Armenian State Engineering University. The number of applicants seeking to study there has risen dramatically in recent years, with high school graduates attracted by the prospect of finding a job in a sector where the average monthly wage is currently worth $500. Experienced Armenian programmers may well earn $1,000 or more these days.
[...]
[...]. Armenia’s state-run technical colleges, which were primarily designed to serve the now defunct Soviet-era heavy industry, continue to release every year hundreds of mechanical and other non-IT engineers whose chances of finding a job are slim.
Yengibarian, the EIF director, believes that the government should come up with an IT development plan tied to a broader strategy for the country’s economic development. [...].
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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