martes, enero 01, 2008
Op/Ed: 'A talent contest we're losing'
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The chairman of Intel, Craig Barrett, wrote an op/ed in the
Washington Post, claiming that to be competitive in the global tech economy,
the U.S. needs to increase the number of H1-B visas it grants each year and revamp the system in general, especially in the face of a new Blue Card system proposed in the E.U.
Some key excerpts:
The U.S. system forces thousands of valuable foreign-born professionals -- including badly needed researchers, scientists, teachers and engineers -- into legal and professional limbo for years. Not surprisingly, many are considering opportunities in competitor nations -- even those who have lived in the United States for years and have graduated from American universities.
To be competitive in the global economy, U.S. companies depend on specialized talent coming out of U.S. graduate schools. These scientists and engineers are often foreign-born, as more than half of U.S. engineering master's students and PhD recipients are international students. Yet America shuts the door on many of these highly educated graduates, forcing them to look abroad for opportunities -- and our competitors are capitalizing on our failed policies.
E.U. leaders recognize that the top minds coming out of universities in the United States and other countries can help to reinvigorate European industry and enable it to create the next wave of businesses that drive innovation and economic growth.
While its Blue Card proposal still requires approval by member countries, Europe has sent a message. It intends to aggressively pursue the professional talent necessary to compete on the global stage. The United States, on the other hand, seems intent on driving away the very same talent the European Union is rolling out the red carpet to welcome.
These scientists and engineers are often foreign-born, as more than half of U.S. engineering master's students and PhD recipients are international students.
Both the US and the EU need to concentrate more on growing more of their talent at home. We are falling behind because more and more of our educational system is being co-opted by Gramscian nonsense such as "diversity traing" and other ideological trash. We need engineers, scientists and physicists, not "diversity trainers" or "ethnic studies professors" or "immigration lawyers." We don't need to import Chinese or Indian engineers of questionable loyalty in the millions -- we need to divert all educational resources from the useless humanities and law school mandarins and into the hard sciences. I'm not a fan of the welfare state by any means, but I support full state-paid tuition, room and board for any American kid who wants to go into the hard sciences.