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Tech giants team up on digital-literacy push

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Ina Fried) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:49:01 +0000

Cisco, Intel and Microsoft are working together to help create global education standards

Survival training with the UN's ICT specialists

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Andrew Donoghue) — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:05:02 +0100

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

Signs O' The Times

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:21:24 +0000

I've started a couple of weeks work for a MegaBuck MegaCorp, hacking my way through a jungle of CSS with Geany, the machete of the Linux text editor world. There are a few interesting signs: ...

We dont need no IT education. Or maybe we do?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:33:00 +0000

Connecting three ideas together as is often my want, I appear to have stumbled on more IT Education issues than is normal this week. Firstly, I am looking at getting involved with a large OEM to...

BCS tailors certification to IT specialisms

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (David Meyer) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:10:02 +0100

The new CITP certification for senior IT professionals will now last for only five years, and will allow applicants to choose from a variety of specialisms

Managing a web project

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:46:03 +0100

Advice from the coalface One of the most pivotal but also most difficult jobs in the creation of a web site is the project management. I think it's difficult because the project manager has to...

Teachers to get tech lessons in £5.6m scheme

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:07:02 +0100

A new training programme funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families is aimed at increasing teachers' tech skills to help them make better use of ICT in lessons

IT delays hampered gov't training scheme

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Kable) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:01:01 +0100

The late delivery of IT caused delays and financial problems for the Train to Gain scheme, according to a report published by the National Audit Office

IT graduate jobs hit hardest by recession

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:10:01 +0100

A new report reveals that graduate jobs in the IT sector have been affected far worse than other industries, with vacancies dropping 44.5 percent this year

Funded ICT training take-up falls by half

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Kable) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:49:02 +0100

A government review finds 50 percent fewer adults are using funded ICT training than five years ago

IT pros advised to 'bed down' in jobs

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:56:02 +0100

While the number of tech professionals finding work has increased, there is still uncertainty over jobs, says technology skills group e-skills

Like flying model aircraft? Fancy a really big one? And a su...

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:31:47 +0100

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,...

Ballmer's email to employees about layoffs

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:52:06 +0000

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:...

Campaign calls for diversity in engineering

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:02:39 +0000

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,...

Teenagers told: Find your 'dream job' in tech

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Nick Heath) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:19:02 +0000

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'

IT illiteracy drags on UK economy

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Matthew Broersma) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:19:02 +0000

The UK is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic IT literacy among employees, according to City & Guilds

BA: IT-testing failures caused Heathrow T5 chaos

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Nick Heath) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:23:02 +0000

British Airways has admitted insufficient training and testing in IT systems caused the baggage shambles that marred the opening of Terminal 5

IBM invests in business partners' training

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Colin Barker) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:09:02 +0100

A business-development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around datacentres

IT skills academy gets gov't green light

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas and Jo Best) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:03:02 +0100

The National Skills Academy for Information Technology is set to open next year, and is looking for tech professionals to get involved

US Homeland Security gives cyber-protection advice

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:39:01 +0100

Security advice and best practice aimed at businesses, educational establishments and end users will be available online this month due to a US initiative

Technology in E-Assessment: Focused on the Performance of eL...

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:57:18 +0100

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...

Skype Roundup: Skype Dumps on Taiwan Customers

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:13:13 +0100

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...

Is Virtual Studying Progress?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:55:40 +0100

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 dont...

Exam site pulls MS certification questions

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:36:54 +0100

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...

Fall in number of IT A-level students

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:51:02 +0100

The number of students taking the computing and ICT A-levels continues to fall, while the number achieving top grades has risen

HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:06:02 +0100

Thames Valley University and HP have created a two-year, part-time foundation degree aimed at providing sought-after tech skills

Applicant numbers for IT teacher training still falling

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:04:02 +0100

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

Kill the Administrators

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:48:11 +0100

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...

UK tech students farm out coursework to India

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Nick Heath) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:15:02 +0100

Academics at Birmingham City University have warned that IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5

IT work is 'boring', say UK students

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:31:02 +0100

Sixty-three percent of students believe an IT career would be 'boring', claims careers charity Crac, adding that the gender divide will worsen

Prisoners to train for career in IT

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:53:02 +0100

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

HP announces university grants

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Colin Barker) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:58:01 +0100

Grants are targeted along with gifts of mobile technology to assist in the use of technology in learning

Video blog: UN ICT survival training exercise

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:39:52 +0100

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...

Why is the Italian army shooting techies?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:38:56 +0100

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...

Microsoft saves digitally excluded from not being Microsoft...

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:46:08 +0100

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...

Think about the children...

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:36:53 +0000

Ever wondered what it's like to be head-hunted by a large corporation for a very senior position, when you know that the position is horrible and the corporation worse? A friend relates the...

Why is it good to work at KPMG?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:49:04 +0000

The Today programme this morning reveals that consultants KPMG will top this year's Sunday Times list of the best companies in Britain to work for. The Sunday Times says the key factor is...

Give us your feedback and win £500

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:43:53 +0000

Sometimes the only way to find out what someone is thinking is to ask them a direct question. So here it is: How are we doing? If you give us your feedback, then ZDNet UK can do a better job of...

Security scholarships up for grabs

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:34:01 +0000

Security training organisation (ISC)2 has announced that it has eight scholarships to give to post-grads involved in information security research. One-year scholarships of up to £6,250 each...

Microsoft makes hard decisions easier

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:21:35 +0000

Let's pretend that we're OEMs. Original Equipment Manufacturers, the people who design and build the actual hardware which finds its way onto desks, into backpacks and under thumbs. One of the...

Requirements gap: real or perceived?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:33:45 +0000

I used to be involved with the Australian media tech scene and its an interesting place from a software perspective. Being as geographically and temporally separated as they are, the country is a...

An Indian IT Odyssey

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:45:21 +0100

So Im currently in Bangalore India under the auspices of Yahoo! to attend the companys Hack Day weekend. Im also on a mission to find out what makes the Indian IT market tick and try to figure...

IT industry in crisis.

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:08:30 +0100

Back in the 90's IT as a career was seen as a good option by students entering further and higher education this meant lots of qualified IT workers and happy days for the IT industry. The...

What matters more - speed or quality of response?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:28:19 +0100

With the proliferation of mobile devices amongst mobile workers offering 24/7 connectivity, I have noticed an interesting communication trend. Emails are now being sent at all times of day and...

Press release of the day

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:52:40 +0100

According to Keynote Systems, "the mobile and internet performance authority", nearly 80 percent of respondents to some or other survey of theirs said they would check or send emails via their...

BT takes over Indian enterprise comms

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:52:55 +0000

Another week, another foreign acquisition for BT. Last time it was an IT consultancy in the States, but this week it's more standard telco stuff, specifically i2i Enterprise in Mumbai, an...

Bonus day for O2 staff

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:19:19 +0000

Things must be going well at the British subsidiary of Telefonica - "each eligible O2 employee" (i.e. full-time workers, although part-timers get something too though) has just received a thousand...

Mobile porn alert

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:39:16 +0000

Some interesting research shows that porn will account for 70 percent of mobile content revenue by 2011. No surprise there - remember how adult content drove adoption of the Internet - but another...

So THAT's what makes a good business!

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:16:24 +0000

Those of you who enjoy silly corporate-sponsored formulae (read the Guardian's Ben Goldacre enthusiastically sounding off on the subject here) should have fun with this one, released by... can't...

If you're feeling flush...

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:46:17 +0100

As a musician myself, I would almost be tempted to buy one of these, but questions remain. Which chord plays when you flush? Where do you attach the other end of the strings? What's the reverb like?

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:30:05 +0100

Monday 28/8/2006 Perhaps it's because it's the August Bank Holiday, that last desperate breath of summer holiday, and perhaps it's because I'm up in Edinburgh, city of Burke and Hare, but matters...