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ridiculous ideas like creationism. america is the only industrialized
nation
where the leaders want to drag it's people back into the middle ages. There
are plenty of people in america that need to put down their xbox and
playstation2 remotes and go back to school.
U.S. losing lead in science and engineering-study Fri Jul 8, 3:55 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half a century of U.S. 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 China and
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 U.S.
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 U.S. 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 II. With just 5 percent of the world's population, it employs
almost a third of science and engineering researchers, accounts for 40
percent of research and development spending and publishes 35 percent 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 U.S. 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 percent of university bachelor degrees in the
U.S. were in science and engineering compared with a world average of 27
percent and 52 percent in China.
The picture among doctorates -- key to advanced scientific research -- was
more striking. In 2001, universities in the European Union granted 40
percent more science and engineering doctorates than the United States,
with
that figure expected to reach nearly 100 percent by about 2010, the study
showed.
The study said deteriorating opportunities and comparative wages for young
science and engineering graduates has discouraged U.S. 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 percent of all U.S. jobs were
"off-shorable."
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