Given the continued depredations of outsourcing on IT careers, perhaps the undergraduate drop-outs (IT Undergraduates have UK's highest dropout rate) saw the writing on the wall and opted not to waste their time studying for a career which would see them competing against lower-cost centres and lower-cost staff, aided by the British government's incomprehensible weakness in granting work permit visas on the grounds of alleged staff shortages when anyone over the age of 40 struggles to get a job interview.

Nigel S