"It is in the future industries where the skill set is lacking because universities etc have not caught up with it yet"
University degree technical courses have always lagged behind industry's new needs. They construct teaching programmes that are supposed to develop disciplined intellectual thinking skills - together with a grounding in basic knowledge of the subject. Once in a while they adjust that basic knowledge to reflect more recently established industry practice.
The IT industry in the early 1960s recruited some Oxbridge 1sts in Maths - but many of the creative staff came up the ranks. In the late 1960s there was a move to recruit graduates in any subject - the belief being that university had equipped them with thinking skills. Alas a degree in History and Politics did not help someone who could not grasp the hex numbering system when dropped into a technical role.
It was while after that before universities offered Computer Science courses - and the IT industry started to make that their recruitment threshold. The complaint from Tom Thomson in the 1970s was that it took longer to train those graduates - because they thought they had learned everything there was to know about computing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
