The paper presents evidence of serious skill shortages in the information technology (IT) sector and in ITrelated occupations in France, Germany, Singapore the UK and the US. The extent to which higher education (HE) has responded to the increased demand for skills by providing an increasing...

In recent years, an idea has spread throughout the world that economies are poised on the cusp of a major technological revolution, unlike anything in the past, that will lead to unprecedented job destruction, high rates of unemployment and massive increases in inequality. This chapter examines...