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The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up According to the Graduate Teacher Training Registry, the number of students applying for post-graduate teacher training courses in IT is continuing to slide. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed t... [04 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment While I think it's great to give prisoners something positive that might help them 'go straight' in the future, I can't help feeling short-changed that I get taxed with a 100 per cent (yes, that's one hundred percent - not a typo) taxation on any... [19 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities
Comment First, universities and colleges need to achieve a more balanced enrolment of women and minorities on their courses. From the inside, we know that to be true. But what can we do about it? The Naked CIO offers some ideas. [28 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07
Round-Up People running training courses offering introductions to data protection and information asset management will become fabulously rich overnight and retire. It's not often the Round-Up gets on its moral high horse but this week is an exception. [23 Nov 2007]
The McCue Interview: Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment He's also critical of the quality of graduates from university IT courses. However that picture of the sector is slowly changing at London-based Capital & Regional, which focuses on property asset management in the retail and leisure sectors. [09 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scan my books
Comment But of most interest where the pre-PC paper records of meetings, conferences, lecture courses and the detailed workings of engineering problems that relied upon pocket calculator and in some cases the slide rule. [02 Jul 2007]
JP Rangaswami
CIO Profile He moved to the UK in 1987 and after failing to get an NUJ card he joined Burroughs (now Unisys) writing manuals and running training courses for their banking products. What they say about him: "A CIO 'paratrooper' who took on the transformation... [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: Closing the skills gap
Leader The problem appears to be that many degree courses simply aren't turning out the well-rounded graduates needed in the modern business environment, although it also raises questions about the general quality of primary and secondary education in... [04 Jan 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment Among these courses was one on the basics of accounting and economics. As a post-graduate student in the 1970s, I attended a broad selection of courses beyond the normal engineering and science spectrum on the basis that I would most likely have to... [07 Sep 2006]
Leader: Why we don't need more techies
Leader Some people point to the declining numbers of students applying for IT, computer science and engineering degrees at university and say more needs to be done to attract people to these courses - but that isn't necessarily the right approach. [02 Aug 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 18
Comment The training halls at Huawei are massive, packing a few hundred people in for each lecture, so lord alone knows how many courses they run. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's... [27 Jun 2006]
Leader: Ethical hacking - launch, teach... hope
Leader However, attitudes to such courses are mellowing since the University of Calgary first announced it was to teach a course in malware writing and it's likely there will be a fair amount of approval for the teaching of penetration testing (as... [19 Jun 2006]
Behind the scenes at England's World Cup HQ
Comment This includes a fully equipped players' arcade room with an indoor golf simulator where you strike the ball against a screen and can play on a choice of 36 courses - England winger Joe Cole is the best at this, apparently. [15 Jun 2006]
Leader: Why teach students malware techniques?
Leader So it's interesting that the security industry is so divided on the real value - above the kudos of a headline-grabbing syllabus - of courses on topics such as virus writing, spam and spyware. But the question here is whether there's enough value... [06 Oct 2005]
George Kurtz, Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray
AS Profile The book is read by hackers and security professionals alike and has become a staple on reading lists for ethical hacking courses. The authors of Hacking Exposed are important on all sides of the hacking debate. [23 Sep 2005]
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