LINKING THE CLASSROOM TO THE WORKPLACE

The demand for skilled graduates in business, technology and social sciences is intensifying. Throughout the next decade, the U.S., Europe, Japan, China and India will face a shortfall of 32 million technically specialized professionals.⁵

The skills profile for these workers in an Internet-driven service economy assumes a competence in technology. But creativity and innovation top the list, which also includes critical thinking, digital citizenship and information retrieval.⁶

Finding your inner mathematician

IBM is helping school systems broaden basic science, math, engineering and technology (STEM) skills at every age with resources for teachers to integrate STEM into their curricula

The Transition to Teaching program addresses a critical shortage of math and science teachers by supporting our most experienced employees—approximately 100 today—to become fully accredited teachers in their local communities after they leave the company. Six graduates are already teaching in the classroom.

Working with higher education institutions around the world, we're developing the Services Science Management and Engineering (SSME) discipline, the next generation of computer science.

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