Way back in the 1830s, the world found itself in the predicament of having more technology than techies - if you can believe that  The new industrial revolutionaries had underestimated the number of trained hands they would need to maintain, repair and manage the new “toys” of industry

Dateline The cost to business at $4 billion per year, The cost of Canadian society has been estimated at $10 billion per year,    Dateline

According to an ACT college entrance exam study, three-fourths of students who took the ACT in 2006 lacked the skills to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing college courses in reading, math, social studies and science, even though they had taken a high school curriculum designed to prepare them for higher education