Computer Science woes in Australia, too

The Wired Campus reports that "several of Australia's colleges, concerned about the nation's decreasing numbers of technology majors, are giving pink slips to computer-science professors. Monash University has laid off 22 information-technology staff members in the past year, and last week Bond University quietly axed its entire technology faculty. Officials at Bond say they hope to re-energize their technology program by folding it into the university's business department." Among the reasons given are: parents influencing students to pick more marketable disciplines, time lag between job prospects and enrollments, concerns over job security, academics [who] do not understand business concerns, more advanced [computer program] development environments, offshoring, students wanting more business content, popularity of games design. (The Australian)