According to the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the current school programs do not provide students with the skills necessary to the development of a career in IT. That was made in response to the Royal Society's ongoing investigation into the current ICT education programs in British schools. Hugo Donaldson, the current principal policy adviser at the IET said that IT teaching in schools was a massive problem and something we have closely looked at over the past year prior to submitting evidence to the Royal Society. He also added that the major problem is a failure to distinguish between teaching computer literacy, as in how to use Microsoft Word or send an email, and teaching proper computing which the main skill needed to work in the IT industry. Hugo Donaldson also expressed that the decreasing number of students choosing an ICT education path is partly due to the ICT GCSE, and the fact that the difference between this and the skills required for a career in ICT is not being explained to students. The Royal Society needs to tackle the problem that students do not know the difference between ICT literacy and computing. The IT skills shortage decreased during the economic turmoil because there were an excess of candidates in the job market, but increased again in 2010, and it will be more and more palpable during the next few years particularly as companies have struggled financially, they have reduced training and if they have let people go, they may have lost them from the IT industry entirely. In response to the expected shortfall in demand, the Institution of Engineering and Technology set up its own qualification for ICT specialists in 2009.