Dalam dialog interaktif di Metro TV tadi pagi, seorang
panelist menyarankan kepada seorang bapak yang
ragu-ragu agar anaknya masuk IPS saja karena IPS
sedang ngetrend di masyarakat. Sayang saya tidak
mengikuti acara ini dari awal. Untuk sementara, saya
anggap saran ini tidak pada tempatnya karena
menganjurkan pemirsa untuk anut grubyuk (ikut arus
massa). Padahal jelas bahwa Indonesia sedang bergerak
menjadi negara yang banyak industrinya, dan ini
memerlukan banyak pemuda berlatar belakang IPA.
Salam,
RM
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India beats US in science!
REUTERS
Posted online: Saturday, July 09, 2005 at 1050 hours
IST
Updated: Monday, July 11, 2005 at 0324 hours IST
WASHINGTON, JULY 9 : More than half a century of US
dominance in science and engineering may be slipping
as America's share of graduates in these fields falls
relative to Europe and developing nations such as
India, a study released on Friday says.
The study, written by Richard Freeman at the National
Bureau of Economic Research in Washington, warned that
changes in the global science and engineering job
market may require a long period of adjustment for US
workers.
Moves by international companies to move jobs in
information technology, high-tech manufacturing and
research and development to low-income developing
countries were just "harbingers" of that longer-term
adjustment, Freeman said.
Urgent action was needed to ensure that slippage in
science and engineering education and research, a
bulwark of the US productivity boom and resurgence
during the 1990s, did not undermine America's global
economic leadership, he added.
The United States has had a substantial lead in
science and technology since World War Two. With just
5 per cent of the world's population, it employs
almost a third of science and engineering researchers,
accounts for 40 per cent of research and development
spending and publishes 35 per cent of science and
engineering research papers.
Many of the world's top high-tech firms are American,
and government spending on defense-related technology
ensures the US military's technological dominance on
battlefields.
But the roots of this lead may be eroding, Freeman
said.
Numbers of science and engineering graduates from
European and Asian universities are soaring while new
degrees in the United States have stagnated -- cutting
its overall share.
In 2000, the paper said, 17 per cent of university
bachelor degrees in the US were in science and
engineering compared with a world average of 27 per
cent and 52 per cent in China.
The picture among doctorates -- key to advanced
scientific research -- was more striking. In 2001,
universities in the European Union granted 40 per cent
more science and engineering doctorates than the
United States, with that figure expected to reach
nearly 100 per cent by about 2010, the study showed.
The study said deteriorating opportunities and
comparative wages for young science and engineering
graduates has discouraged US students from entering
these fields, but not those born in other countries.
These trends are challenging the so-called North-South
global economic divide, the paper said, by undermining
a perceived rich-country advantage in high technology.
"Research and technological activity and production
are moving where the people are, even when they are
located in the low-wage South," Freeman wrote, citing
a study saying some 10-15 per cent of all US jobs were
"off-shorable".
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