BCS tailors certification to IT specialisms
News Our clear aspiration for Chartered IT Professional status is that it should be of a similar status to other chartered designations, such as accountancy," BCS chief executive David Clarke said in a statement.
[September 21, 2009, 17:10]
The time is right to create a global IT profession
Comment The updated Chartered Status provides the benchmark of IT excellence and allows employers and clients to understand instantly the quality of IT practitioners. Perhaps the area where these two requirements come together most clearly is in our...
[October 27, 2009, 14:12]
Web consortium to sync text with video
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) chartered the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) to come up with a streaming text specification, based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), that will synchronise text with video or audio streamed over the Internet.
[January 22, 2003, 10:56]
Government joins push for IT professionalism
News The programme follows work already done by the organisation to set up a new qualification, the Chartered IT Practitioner. The British Computer Society (BCS) has launched a new scheme involving Whitehall and industry figures which aims to boost the...
[May 11, 2005, 16:30]
UK businesses lagging due to IT failures
News The Work Foundation research project was led by Astra Zeneca, EDF Energy, Hermes Pensions Management Limited, Manpower/Working Links, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rolls-Royce, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered.
[July 20, 2005, 17:10]
Businesses failing to understand Web 2.0 risks
News The group head of information security at Standard Chartered Bank, John Meakin explained that the banking industry is embracing Web 2.0 tools in two ways. This is a limited solution because it doesn't take into account the way the security status...
[February 1, 2008, 8:03]
