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Government And Industry Join In Scheme For IT Skills
News E-Skills UK on Tuesday called for the government, employers and educators to join a new scheme for improving the IT abilities of the 21 million UK employees currently using IT at work. E-Skills UK is one of several independent, employer-led...
[April 9, 2003, 10:04]
Government Broadband Scheme Abandoned
News After spending an initial £15m on setting up the scheme the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to stop the funding and close the national aggregation board. A government initiative to save £200m on the UK's £1bn broadband bill using regional...
[November 29, 2004, 13:55]
Government Slammed For IT Training Scheme Fiasco
News The ILA scheme was launched in September 2000 to encourage adults to develop IT and professional skills. The report states that: "The department should have monitored more closely the information supplied by Capita and the escalating demand for...
[October 25, 2002, 12:04]
Government Broadband Scheme Abandoned
Talkback I wonder if the DTI will now require the refund of the substantlal fee paid to scheme designers AT Kearney?
[December 4, 2004, 11:19]
Government Gives Further Boost To Employee-PC Scheme
Talkback I work for the Ministry of Defence and rang them up about this scheme and was told that they were not taking part in the scheme.
[February 10, 2006, 13:04]
Government Gives Further Boost To Employee-PC Scheme
Talkback if you leave your job you have to pay the whole lot back at once it can be a very expensive scheme as my son has found out to his cost
[January 18, 2006, 18:01]
Government Gives Further Boost To Employee-PC Scheme
Talkback Many thanks HM Government for the encouragement of Enterprise. Very good if you aren't a one person company. Yes, such people can't get this deal at all. If any of the computer is used for personal use it gets taxed and company still pays 12.8% Nat...
[January 20, 2004, 18:50]
Government Gives Further Boost To Employee-PC Scheme
News Under the scheme, UK workers get to install a brand spanking new PC in their homes, originally paid for by their employer, and pay a small amount back every month straight out of their wages. Speaking at the launch, Hewitt said she hopes the scheme...
[January 20, 2004, 10:25]
Critics Attack 'dangerous' Gov't Comms-snooping Plan
News Internet service providers are to be invited to tender for a government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications. The Home Office and GCHQ have applied to central government for funding for the scheme.
[July 15, 2008, 17:30]
Government's Secure Shopping Scheme Condemned
News A government scheme to increase consumer confidence in buying online launched Tuesday has been overshadowed by stiff criticism from a former partner on the project. Concerns over the government's new scheme may well worry some shoppers.
[July 18, 2000, 12:26]
Thailand's Cheap PCs 'force Microsoft's Hand'
News The Thai government's scheme to bring cheaper computers to low-income earners could have the unintended side effect of cracking Microsoft's hallowed one-price policy, says an analyst. How a simple welfare scheme in a Southeast-Asian country could...
[August 22, 2003, 12:20]
£50m Failure Of UK E-university Probed
News A government Internet scheme to attract overseas students to UK universities failed because it had no understanding of consumer demand, got carried away by the dotcom boom and allowed technology to drive its strategy, according to a report...
[March 3, 2005, 16:15]
Government Programme To Get Women Back To IT
News Women who have left the high-tech sector are being encouraged to come back to their former professions by a government-backed scheme. The £750,000 pilot project is part of the government's Teaching Company Scheme (TCS), in which the state partially...
[September 16, 2002, 14:04]
Government Admits ID Card Project Won't Be Fully Tested
News The government has admitted that it will not rigorously test all aspects of the identity cards scheme before putting it into practice. It would not be realistic to rigorously test everything before the scheme ‘goes live' to the point where the...
[October 23, 2006, 13:40]
Government Seeks Out New Tech Talent
News A fast-track graduate scheme to unearth the next generation of public-sector IT leaders has been launched by the government. Gillian Merron, the minister for transformational government, said the scheme is designed to make sure the UK's best...
[October 19, 2007, 9:10]
MP: ID Card Scheme Is 'doomed To Failure'
News The UK government's ID cards scheme has attracted heavy criticism from a senior Liberal Democrat MP, following the publication last month of an official report into a pilot biometrics programme. The Home Office told ZDNet UK on Friday that the...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
Employers Say ID-card Plans 'too Vague'
News The government's ID-card scheme is "vague and insufficiently thought out", the Confederation of British Industry said on 13 August, 2004. Responding to the Home Office's consultation on the ID plans, the CBI said that if the scheme is to be...
[August 13, 2004, 14:35]
Police Chief Criticises ID Cards Scheme
News One of the country's top police officers has criticised the government's identity cards scheme, saying it will become a prime target for hackers. This scheme is convenient for government, but not for citizens," said Langham-Fitt.
[May 15, 2007, 18:01]
British Life 'unthinkable' Without ID Cards
News The National Identity Scheme will be essential in combating the challenges presented by the revolution in technology and mobility, according to a government minister. Speaking at a conference at Chatham House, Home Office minister Liam Byrne said...
[June 20, 2007, 8:53]
Government Claims 'no Change' In ID Cards Policy
News The ID cards scheme will not be scrapped, despite rumours to the contrary, according to government sources. A spokesman for NO2ID, an anti-ID cards lobbying group, said that he had seen no appetite in government for any change to the scheme.
[November 5, 2007, 16:31]
