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Few firms fear an IT skills gap
News The IT skills gap is no great shakes, although most firms could better their recruitment strategies, according to a recent survey from e-skills UK. Just nine percent of the 700 employers polled in e-skills UK's ICT Insights survey said there is a...
[June 6, 2005, 15:25]
Core training aims to fill the skills gap
News Core ICT training is at the heart of government proposals to bridge the UK's skills gap and turn out better qualified and more highly skilled school leavers into the workplace. Businesses are to be consulted on the proposals by a working group of...
[March 22, 2004, 14:30]
Tech workers confirm UK skills gap still a problem
News A large majority (72 percent) of the survey respondents also believed the skills gap is growing year-on-year. Asked for views on ways to plug the skills gap, 70 percent of the almost 450 respondents to the IT Job Board survey said better training...
[December 24, 2008, 8:59]
HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap
News A foundation degree course will launch at colleges in England this autumn aimed at boosting sought-after tech skills and addressing the nation's IT skills gap. Mike Bicknell, business development manager for HP's Solution Partner Organisation...
[August 7, 2008, 12:06]
Governments failed to foresee IT skills gap
News Price said that the gap in skills could not be plugged by offshoring and outsourcing, due to the importance of proximity to suppliers for IT projects. UK governments have let slip opportunities to narrow the shortage in IT skills, according to a...
[October 26, 2007, 17:00]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
Talkback Also technical skills are badly judged and Team leaders either don't know the technology or are great techs but couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery. Yeah most of these project failures are due to management optamism.
[May 20, 2004, 22:30]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
Talkback All those I've come across in the past 4 or more years can't even spell properly, they just didn't bother to learn when at school and picked up the minimum of skills by being sent/whatever on Employment Agency courses just because they got paid an...
[July 8, 2004, 21:23]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
Talkback How does any of this relate to “IT workers”? The decisions that cause major IT project failures are almost always caused by senior level business people and have more to do with personal power politics than technical issues.
[April 22, 2004, 11:45]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
Talkback This is because the systems often have their specifications drawn up with interferance by the customer's management at best, and no reference at all to actual users at worst. Company politics often scupper a project before the ITT has been sent.
[April 22, 2004, 18:06]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
Talkback They are also generally unable to recruit efficiently since they can't judge technical skills. IT is probably the only skill intensive sector largely managed by people with little to no IT knowledge or interest, in IT or non IT companies.
[April 22, 2004, 17:13]
Microsoft IT Academy Program Helps Malaysia Narrow ICT Skills Gap
White Papers To help address an acute and growing shortage of workers with strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills, Microsoft is partnering with 20 institutions of higher learning across Malaysia to expand opportunities for students to...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
Nokia: Science skills gap is Europe-wide
News Meanwhile, in the UK a National Skills Academy network is currently being established with the aim of including the business world in the drive to boost uptake in fields such as IT and telecommunications.
[March 12, 2007, 12:17]
IT skills gap costs Britain billions
News Other problems cited are a lack of project-management skills among senior managers, and a failure to implement best practice in software engineering and IT projects. A report published by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer...
[April 22, 2004, 9:50]
Bridging the Knowledge and Skills Gap: Tapping Federal Retirees
White Papers Determining and closing knowledge and skills gaps are important steps toward meeting and strengthening an agency's mission and goals. The July 1, 2004, human capital goals set forth by Kay Coles James, director of the Office of Personnel Management...
[July 14, 2005, 6:00]
UK set to climb the IT skills ladder?
News The UK is facing a growing skills gap and by 2008 will be short of around 40,000 people with networking technology skills, according to a study published this week. Across Europe, the survey forecast a shortage of around 500,000 people with...
[October 11, 2005, 16:20]
Calling IT pros: The jobs are out there
News Despite the flagging economy and reports of mass layoffs in the high-tech sector, there are still thousands of unfilled IT positions as European tech innovation continues to be held back by a widening skills gap.
[August 21, 2002, 10:03]
IT teachers are "out of touch" - Report
News These are the findings of a report published last week by UK consultancy firm Information Builders with support from the CBI, designed to identify the causes of the gap between the IT skills needs of employers and those of entrants to the jobs...
[September 21, 1998, 16:47]
Women in IT paid 20 percent less than men
News The gap has shrunk from 30 percent one year ago, e-skills found. The pay gap between male and female tech professionals has narrowed but striking differences remain, according to the latest government research.
[February 27, 2008, 14:27]
IT salaries up in UK, says survey
News This year, 12.4 percent of respondents say there are unfilled positions, down from 17.5 percent last year and 39 percent the year before that -- a sign perhaps that the skills gap is shrinking or that companies simply have fewer positions...
[March 24, 2003, 12:54]
Security skills still most valuable to IT chiefs
News The results also reveal there is a significant skills gap in countries with established IT industries, including the UK. The security gap is even wider in China, India, Poland, Russia and South Africa, where the emergence of a strong IT industry is...
[March 14, 2008, 8:35]
