Most UK students think that IT work makes for a boring career, according to a new survey.

Careers charity Crac shows that, while non-computing students think IT job prospects are good, more than 63% believed it would be 'boring'

Crac development director Robin Mellors-Bourne said that employers need to be able to counter that kind of perception.

Oddly the students did not think negatively about the IT profession or its people, just that it was too boring for them.

In the UK, IT employers are struggling to fill vacancies, while the number of students applying for IT-related degrees is falling.

The British Computer Society thinks that the answer is to get kids interested by using work-experience schemes.
Crac also said the number of women in IT is likely to fall even more. Female applicants for IT degree courses fell from 18% to 15% between 2001 and 2007.

The study said that, despite the under-representation of females as students for ICT qualifications, they 'outperform male students, in terms of results, at all levels'. X

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