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IT Training Provider Expands Market Reach, Reduces Operating Costs by $300,000
White Papers Avantus Training provides IT training courses for medium-sized and large organizations. Avantus now offers its Measure-IT course, a one-on-one training session for executives, solely through Web conferencing.
[September 12, 2006, 0:00]
IT security training 'inadequate'
News IT security training is woefully inadequate in the majority of UK companies, according to a survey. We firmly believe that IT security training needs to be initiated on two levels led jointly by the IT and HR departments.
[November 8, 2002, 11:22]
IT staff face skills and training shortfall
News More evidence has emerged that UK firms are facing a shortfall of IT skills, with many IT pros failing to be offered suitable training. The report also found a decline in the number of IT professionals who received any job-related training, from 31...
[January 5, 2007, 15:51]
SME associations call for EC-funded IT training
News European associations representing small and medium-sized enterprises have called for more European Commission-backed funding for SME employee IT training. The association, which has 12 million member companies, had organised the event to remind...
[March 7, 2008, 10:30]
UK IT training: does it make the grade?
Blog This time next month I aim to report on a project to assess IT training resources. According to Neil, “Getting value from an IT training course is no different from getting value from any training programme.
[November 5, 2008, 7:21]
Charity funds IT training for disadvantaged groups
News The e-Learning Foundation helps schools in deprived areas to set up home-IT access programmes for children with no domestic access to learning technologies; the Foyer Federation offers homeless young people accommodation, training and personal...
[February 29, 2008, 13:29]
GCHQ takes on gov't IT security training
News The government is turning co-ordination of its IT security training over to the information assurance arm of British intelligence agency GCHQ. In the past, all government IT security training has been the charge of the Cabinet Office, through the...
[July 1, 2009, 12:09]
Microsoft Certifications at the Core of Successful New Zealand IT Skills Training Program
White Papers Since then, AMES - now known as AMES Training and Resource Centre - has dramatically evolved along with New Zealand's job market. AMES trains aspiring IT workers of all ages, offering both diploma and certification programs that are benchmarked...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
UK IT training: does it make the grade?
Blog Comment For this I have done a mixture of training types. What exactly was I training to do? Most training, is aimed at one particular thing, and that is to pass an exam. Yet the danger is that in pursuit of this certification, we forget the one important...
[November 28, 2008, 13:41]
UK IT training: does it make the grade?
Blog Comment Some true words spoken there my friend. We all know the value of O-level Geography studies detailing pig farming in Denmark in our normal day to day lives and the same worth can potentially be argued all the way to professional exams.
[November 28, 2008, 15:57]
Applicant numbers for IT teacher training still falling
News The number of students applying to start postgraduate teacher-training courses in IT this academic year continues to slide. The latest statistics from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR) show total applicant numbers across all subjects...
[July 2, 2008, 10:04]
Government slammed for IT training scheme fiasco
News But the project collapsed just two months later after it was discovered that some training companies were defrauding the system. This lack of reporting meant that the government failed to spot that 13 training providers had registered over 10,000...
[October 25, 2002, 12:04]
Dell Helps Ingersoll Rand Improve Computing Performance and Reduce IT Management and Training Costs
White Papers All of these far-flung business units rely on IT to support activities ranging from supply chain management to customer service. To purchase the computers it needs, Ingersoll Rand selects two top suppliers from each product category, including...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
UWV Upgrades Financial IT System in 3.5 Months With Careful Planning and New Training Tools
White Papers The Employee Insurance Schemes Implementing Body (Uitvoeringsorgaan Werknemersverzekeringen), also known as UWV, is a multi-billion euro organization that provides temporary income when it is impossible for its citizens to work.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
From what i'm reading it seems the Air Force needs some formal training
Talkback It seems the AFCYBER needs formal training on how to structure their network for setting up these kind of attacks.
[April 2, 2008, 20:33]
Choose the right training style for your help desk
News It is probably the best training method for presenting a new or complex subject. Let's face it: Most help desk training is received on the job. Although sponsoring group presentations is a low-cost training approach, it combines many of the other...
[November 6, 2002, 11:12]
Training or Education?
Talkback From my experience, and that of my friends with teenage children I would confirm that we seem to be providing IT training rather than IT Education. Which means we are training our children to use what is being currently being used by business and...
[November 29, 2006, 18:13]
Friday
Blog It's training day! As we're part of CNET, a great American company, we get the great American training. After we had ruthlessly classified our primary values -- I scratched "Cake" on my blank card using a fingernail -- it was time to write down...
[October 18, 2002, 18:28]
UK tech grads get fast-track training scheme
News A new Masters level fast-track training programme has been launched to boost the skills of the next generation of IT professionals in the UK. The modular Masters-level IT PDP training programme has been designed to achieve this, and technical...
[January 25, 2008, 9:43]
No consensus on cost of security
News When it comes to IT security, companies put products before people according to the latest research from security training company (ISC)² which shows that products and services eat up more money than spending on personnel.
[December 8, 2005, 14:15]
