Funded ICT training take-up falls by half
News A government review finds 50 percent fewer adults are using funded ICT training than five years ago [18 Jun 2009]
IT pros advised to 'bed down' in jobs
News While the number of tech professionals finding work has increased, there is still uncertainty over jobs, says technology skills group e-skills [24 Apr 2009]
Like flying model aircraft? Fancy a really big one? And a su...
Blog It's true that you can get almost anything online these days, even jobs. And there's nothing like the Internet for matching people with, shall we say, particular requirements with people who have,... [08 Apr 2009]
Ballmer's email to employees about layoffs
Blog The following is an e-mail Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent to the software maker's workers on Thursday, as the company announced poor earnings and major layoffs. From: Steve Ballmer Sent:... [23 Jan 2009]
Campaign calls for diversity in engineering
Blog The field of engineering is, proportionately speaking, low on women, ethnic minorities and the disabled. Ergo, the Royal Society of Engineering has launched its Diversity in Engineering Campaign,... [15 Jan 2009]
Teenagers told: Find your 'dream job' in tech
News The BigAmbition initiative launched by e-skills UK is hoping to encourage young people to explore a career in IT, with the promise of working for 'inspirational companies' [10 Nov 2008]
IT illiteracy drags on UK economy
News The UK is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic IT literacy among employees, according to City & Guilds [07 Nov 2008]
BA: IT-testing failures caused Heathrow T5 chaos
News British Airways has admitted insufficient training and testing in IT systems caused the baggage shambles that marred the opening of Terminal 5 [04 Nov 2008]
- Happy path testing.. - 1000091392
IBM invests in business partners' training
News A business-development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around datacentres [10 Oct 2008]
IT skills academy gets gov't green light
News The National Skills Academy for Information Technology is set to open next year, and is looking for tech professionals to get involved [09 Oct 2008]
US Homeland Security gives cyber-protection advice
News Security advice and best practice aimed at businesses, educational establishments and end users will be available online this month due to a US initiative [01 Oct 2008]
Technology in E-Assessment: Focused on the Performance of eL...
Blog From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved... [28 Aug 2008]
Skype Roundup: Skype Dumps on Taiwan Customers
Blog Lots of interesting news at the end of last week: - Jan Geirnaert reports in his Skype Watch blog that Skype has abruptly cut off fixed-price SkypeOut offers for Taiwan (originally reported by... [25 Aug 2008]
Is Virtual Studying Progress?
Blog A postgraduate degree which allows students to develop a professional IT qualification without getting off their butts has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Whatever next, jobs you don’t... [19 Aug 2008]
Exam site pulls MS certification questions
Blog A site that proudly and explicitly sells "real exam questions" for various IT certification exams has apparently been nailed by Microsoft for selling, er, real exam questions. Pass4Sure still... [19 Aug 2008]
Fall in number of IT A-level students
News The number of students taking the computing and ICT A-levels continues to fall, while the number achieving top grades has risen [18 Aug 2008]
HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap
News Thames Valley University and HP have created a two-year, part-time foundation degree aimed at providing sought-after tech skills [07 Aug 2008]
Applicant numbers for IT teacher training still falling
News So far this year, the number of applicants to undertake IT teacher-training courses has fallen 15.8 percent on the same period in 2007 [02 Jul 2008]
- How odd - ego.sum.stig
Kill the Administrators
Talkback I quite agree with the previous commentator. However, I would go further. There used to be two levels in the technical department; technicians and engineers. Technicians would be the ones adding... [30 Jun 2008]
UK tech students farm out coursework to India
News Academics at Birmingham City University have warned that IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5 [26 Jun 2008]
- buying in coding skills - 44995
IT work is 'boring', say UK students
News Sixty-three percent of students believe an IT career would be 'boring', claims careers charity Crac, adding that the gender divide will worsen [23 Jun 2008]
- Kill the Administrators - Andrew Meredith
Prisoners to train for career in IT
News The scheme launched at HMP Wandsworth will boost former inmates' chances of finding work in the tech sector, and may even help plug the UK's skills gap [12 Jun 2008]
- Do this course and make a mint - Andrew Meredith
HP announces university grants
News Grants are targeted along with gifts of mobile technology to assist in the use of technology in learning [02 Jun 2008]
Survival training with the UN's ICT specialists 
Photo The United Nations' IT staff are often the first group into a war-zone or natural disaster area, so knowing how to survive in hostile environments is vital [30 May 2008]
Video blog: UN ICT survival training exercise
Blog Last week I was lucky enough to get invited on a training course run by the UN Foundation and the World Food Programme (WFP) aimed to train UN ICT staff to become field managers in some of the most... [30 May 2008]
BCS joins European e-skills push
News The British Computer Society has joined an organisation that brings together EU industry and public-sector bodies to promote IT skills [28 May 2008]
Why is the Italian army shooting techies?
Blog The current crisis in Burma and China mean that the invaluable work of humanitarian and aid organisations is even more in the public eye than normal – with normal being the ongoing conflicts in... [22 May 2008]
Microsoft saves digitally excluded from not being Microsoft...
Blog There are some stories that you have to write because you are going to burst otherwise through sheer exasperation. I have just returned from an event that ate two hours of my life which I will... [24 Apr 2008]
Western economies warned of 'serious' skills crisis
News One of India's most influential IT leaders has claimed poor maths education is one of the main reasons for a shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries [19 Mar 2008]
Businesses urged to invest in staff training
News The government has set out its vision for turning the UK into an 'innovation nation', targeting the skills crisis and lack of training as barriers to success [18 Mar 2008]
