THE STEM CRISIS IS A MYTH   BY ROBERT N. CHARETTE:

The Stem Crisis Is a Myth

By Robert N. Charette

Posted August 30, 2013

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.

You must have seen the warning a thousand times:  Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields, and the country's competitive edge is threatened.

I pretty much doesn't matter what country you're talking about..the United States is facing this crisis, as is Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, India...the list goes on.  In many of these countries, the predicted shortfall of STEM (short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workers is supposed to number in the hundreds of thousands or even the millions.  A 2012 report by President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, for instance, state that over the next decade, 1 million additional STEM graduates will be needed.  In the U. K., the Royal Academy of Engineering reported last year that the nation will have to graduate 100,000 STEM majors every year until 2020 just to stay even with demand.  Germany, meanwhile, is said to have a shortage of about 210,000 workers in what's known there as the MINT disciplines--mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology.

Use the link above to read more and find out why this shortage is not real and who is behind perpetuating the myth...