would you trust indian IT outsourcers ?

[expat]

The Indians will get better at programming but the UK will start to lag behind. Where are the young clever British programmers? One day UK companies may onshore or outsource development to India not because of price, but a paucity of talent.

There are few young programmers here. Offshoring, as encouraged by HMG in the name of trade with India and reducing costs to business, has kicked away the bottom rungs of the ladder so no-one goes into it any more.

As for getting a degree in Comp Sci, forget it. Grants and other funding are available for students in Further Education, but not Higher Education. So if you go to a college to study as a hairdresser or chiropodist, you can get financial assistance from the government, but if you go to university to study Computer Science, you get none.

[minestrone]

The Indians will get better at programming but the UK will start to lag behind. Where are the young clever British programmers? One day UK companies may onshore or outsource development to India not because of price, but a paucity of talent.

Let's face it, they cannot get any worse.

Sure there may be diamonds in the rough but taking the average they are miles below UK IT staff.