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Facebook and Cisco back IT skills drive for kids

...BIS The technology companies have introduced training schemes as part of an E-Skills UK push launched by science minister David Willetts in Tower Hamlets... Read more

16 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

IT jobs: British Gas launches tech apprenticeship

e-skills UK joins British Gas to run IT apprenticeship scheme... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

IT job vacancies outnumber applicants

...of people looking for work in the sector, according to industry body E-skills UK. A survey by E-skills UK shows that advertised vacancies... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

IT skills gap faces lack of qualified teachers

...The skills are often outdated soon after people leave university." On Tuesday, E-Skills UK said in a statement that there has been a decline... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Ben Woods
<endeca_term>e Skills</endeca_term> Minimod Fractions 1.3

e Skills Minimod Fractions 1.3

e Skills Minimods Fractions helps the student build mastery in identifying, computing and... Read more

24 September, 2010

Study: IT industry to add 110,000 jobs this year

...women, according to the Technology Insights 2011 study, published on Tuesday by E-skills UK. The technology industry body said the results show that IT... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Matthew Broersma

Quarter of British 16-24-year-olds have written code

...9 to four percent. The statistics were published to coincide with European e-Skills week, which is actually happening over two weeks, from 19 to... Read more

26 March, 2012

Young people are not 'digitally competent', EC warns

...threatens to hamper European innovation and global competitiveness." Tajani was speaking during 'E-skills Week 2012', which is actually running for two weeks across Europe... Read more

22 March, 2012

"Dull" IT lessons to be axed this autumn?

Teachers to get free reign to make IT lessons shine, under gov't proposal... Read more

11 January, 2012 by Nick Heath

Government lukewarm on IT education review

...find the best way to achieve this." The government said it supported E-Skills UK's 'Behind the Screen' pilot, which is working on possible... Read more

28 November, 2011 by David Meyer

IT jobs: Demand for skilled tech staff drives up pay

...20 per cent. These findings support a further study by industry body e-skills UK, which reported that there were more vacancies than applicants in... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

IT jobs: More vacancies than applicants

...more jobs in IT than IT staff looking for work, according to e-skills UKPhoto: Shutterstock The number of advertised IT jobs is now marginally... Read more

30 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Kroes: Every European will be online in two years

...and standards, trust and security, pervasive fast internet, research and innovation, enhancing e-skills and creating ICT to deal with social challenges. The responsibility for... Read more

1 March, 2011

UK plc is failing to encourage budding techies

...narrow [young people's] understanding [is] of what IT jobs are," said e-skills UK's Price. "We need to get out the message of... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
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Minimod Homophones Lite 1.4

e Skills Minimod Homophones helps the student build mastery in the essential language... Read more

27 May, 2012

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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