Improving IT training and skills is more important than building new infrastructure when it comes to helping the UK tech industry recover from the recession according to research from the BCS.
The survey from the The BCS Chartered Institute for IT released this week revealed that 65 percent of IT professionals surveyed wanted to see more focus on IT education, training and developing technical skills.
The research also found that 64 percent of IT managers believe the UK will emerge from recession by the end of 2010 and 54 percent are positive about the economic prospects for the IT industry over the coming year.
"Investment in IT education and skills is essential if we are to turn a nascent economic recovery into a long-term competitive advantage," said David Clarke, BCS chief executive. To be successful, we need a high performing IT education system and a population with the IT skills to be productive, empowered citizens."
Also commenting on the research, David A. Smith, chief executive of Global Futures and Foresight, said that training is vital if UK workers are to keep pace with new, disruptive technologies. "New communications technologies, including the use of AI driven avatars, holograms and virtual worlds, will increasingly challenge the ageing UK workforce. We will need to develop world class skills in managing and exploiting these and other emerging technologies, amidst a forecast talent shortage, so that we can engage with the rapidly developing economies that these technologies create."
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