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Brown's budget may move IT contracts offshore
News The governmentÂ’s decision to plug the skills gap by relaxing work permit regulations for foreign nationals is likely to lead to more offshore outsourcing, where project work is handled in other countries to save money or create other efficiencies.
[April 3, 2000, 7:00]
E-envoy chases the girls
News In an attempt to inject some glamour into IT, the government launched a series of initiatives Thursday aimed at bridging the skills gap and attracting more women to high tech careers. There will also be a central database for businesses to access...
[June 30, 2000, 11:03]
A Year Ago: E-envoy chases the girls
News In an attempt to inject some glamour into IT, the government launched a series of initiatives Thursday aimed at bridging the skills gap and attracting more women to high tech careers. There will also be a central database for businesses to access...
[July 1, 2001, 6:28]
Less women in IT than 1989
News Walsh was speaking at the launch of a research paper that Microsoft commissioned NOP to produce, to look into the seriousness of the skills gap in IT. Microsoft's "IT Skills Study" will shortly be posted to the company's Web site.
[January 30, 1998, 11:58]
Election 2001: Political parties show their IT stripes
News The Conservative party said it also recognises the need for improved education to bridge the skills gap and added, rather vaguely, that 'freeing up' schools and universities will allow greater flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of technology.
[May 25, 2001, 10:57]
EC aims to convince women IT isn't 'boring'
News Attracting more women is therefore essential to help to close this skills gap, the Commission has claimed. Research out earlier this year from IT industry skills body e-skills UK found numbers of computing student in the UK had fallen 50 percent in...
[March 10, 2008, 7:21]
UK warned over migrant IT worker shortfall
News This millennium skills gap was plugged predominantly by IT professionals from India, the report stated. According to the report, the population of highly skilled international software professionals jumped by 26,000 in the UK between 2000 and 2007...
[March 26, 2008, 14:35]
Achieving executive balance: Nine ways leaders and managers work together
News The team members then do their level best to get from the current state to the future state, using the skills they posses to cover the gap. When managers describe what they want done, they includes clear instructions regarding the who, what, when...
[May 17, 2006, 16:20]
Mayor claims London's e-commerce lead under threat
News The report finds that the UK is already falling well behind competitors in North America, the Far East and Europe in terms of the availability of high-speed Internet access and forecasts the gap is set to widen.
[April 10, 2001, 15:33]
MS pledges to fight UK skill shortage
News Microsoft Ltd.is committed to working with industry to help close the current gap and .work towards increasing the number of individuals working in IT. However, Microsoft insisted that the project is not about boosting the skills base in its own...
[September 25, 1997, 12:00]
A Year Ago: Microsoft to fight UK skill shortage
News Microsoft Ltd.is committed to working with industry to help close the current gap and .work towards increasing the number of individuals working in IT. However, Microsoft insisted that the project is not about boosting the skills base in its own...
[September 25, 1998, 6:50]
New security exam and test retirements
News Introducing such an exam is an intelligent compromise that helps bridge the gap between those who want to see security tested on each exam and those who desire a separate Microsoft certification track.
[August 2, 2002, 20:02]
Microsoft announces new security test, exam retirements
News Introducing such an exam is an intelligent compromise that helps bridge the gap between those who want to see security tested on each exam and those who desire a separate Microsoft certification track.
[August 2, 2002, 13:59]
Grim times predicted for non-Y2K compliant companies
News The reality gap has pretty much disappeared, people know now what the problem is.percent of these businesses will be finished on time, but that leaves a worrying amount which wont. Even if companies do take the message onboard, it could be a case...
[October 23, 1998, 11:58]
Third of UK homes still lack internet access
News The generation gap in web access persists too — adults aged over 65 are still the least likely to use the web, with 70 percent stating they have never done so. However, there's evidence the gap is shrinking: that figure is down from 82 percent two...
[August 28, 2008, 9:00]
Mentoring a stimulant for Australia's IT staff
News Getting staff who have been working in isolation to learn to manage can be tough, but some Australian IT departments are now turning to mentoring to bridge the gap. Although it is sometimes argued that mentoring benefits the person who then take...
[February 25, 2002, 16:39]
Pay-gap report finds females in IT are better off
News Writing in the report, Baroness Prosser of Battersea, chair of the Commission, said: "Not only do we need to see more action being taken to kick start the slow movement of the gender pay gap, but also to ensure that we do not let the economic...
[July 31, 2009, 9:11]
Open source 'split by digital divide'
Talkback IGNORANCE is mankinds worst nightmare, as it is deeply rooted, not curable with medicines, throwing money at it like the last 30/40 years with virtual no results,corruption,complete incompotent upper management,philantropy, charity,NGO's giving in...
[July 17, 2006, 0:40]
A Year Ago: 'Racial ravine' divides Net users
News Among families earning $15,000 to $35,000, some 33 percent of whites own computers, while only 19 percent of blacks do, a gap that has increased since 1994 even as computer prices have fallen. Among families earning more than $75,000, there is...
[July 12, 2000, 7:00]
'Racial ravine' divides Net users
News Among families earning $15,000 to $35,000, some 33 percent of whites own computers, while only 19 percent of blacks do, a gap that has increased since 1994 even as computer prices have fallen. Among families earning more than $75,000, there is...
[July 9, 1999, 9:08]
