education in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Our education is poor, as is our management culture, our marketing sucks as does our regulatory and tax systems and our economy simply can't support entrepreneurship. That and the superior economy, tax breaks,... [06 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment After reading a recent CIO Jury on whether universities are preparing youth properly for IT challenges, I began to think about why higher education is not effective. It wasn't long before I realised IT... [12 Oct 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile While his own agenda of bringing better education to the developing world through a mini laptop may have been overtaken by Silicon Valley's big names, Negroponte still remains the man that kick-started the trend. [30 Sep 2009]
Karen Price
AS Profile The Agenda Setters judges were impressed with Price's success in driving IT up the education agenda and in collaborating with business to bring the private sector into the skills debate. She has had a wide-ranging career... [29 Sep 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Nilekani's crossing to the public sector has put the spotlight on whether technology and outsourcing leaders can help with some of the country's challenges, including dealing with poverty and providing education,... [27 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: We need an offshoring tax
Comment This tax should be minimal and be driven towards technology education grants and grants encouraging companies to onshore labour or set up a new local business employing technology professionals locally. [20 Jul 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment Education, particularly if you've got motivated students, the idea of specialising in the brilliant lecture and text being done in a very high-quality way, and shared by everyone, and then the sort of lab and discussion... [16 Jul 2009]
Indian outsourcing trainees feel heat of recession
Comment Saritha Rai visits Infosys's giant Mysore training centre to gauge how outsourcers are using education to maintain their edge in challenging economic times. One of the two Infosys global education... [23 Jun 2009]
Naked CIO: Don't make a business guy a techie
Comment My education is in business - not computer science - and my experience is more about strategy and leadership than hands-on technical work. When hiring, remember to focus on finding the necessary skills - no more, no less... [20 Apr 2009]
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Comment And while use of the internet was forbidden until 1999, the government has since been much more encouraging of its adoption of broadband infrastructure is being rolled out fast, connecting all schools and making the internet a core part... [24 Mar 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment The CAA will determine the quality of services such as education and health in a given area using the collective knowledge of local authorities as well as national inspectorates to rate the performance of councils and... [09 Mar 2009]
Broadband Britain: Where's our revolution?
Comment E is for Education Yesterday the comms minister, Lord Carter, unveiled a draft strategy which the government hopes will ensure the UK keeps pace with tech change and grows its digital economy over the next five years and... [30 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up ED-E is a humanoid robot and learning tool that featured in education tech supplier RM's Shaping Education for the Future display at an educational technology show this week. The Round-Up looks back at... [23 Jan 2009]
Do you need video in your enterprise?
Comment Video training can ensure unified education across teams and gets the enterprise over time-zone concerns. But can it deliver? Freeform Dynamics's IdaRose Sylvester explains what video can and can't do. [05 Jan 2009]
Naked CIO: Bring down IT salaries
Comment We need to stimulate education and training at a reasonable price and encourage young and old people alike to get the technical and business skills necessary to create a viable and competitive IT work force. [24 Nov 2008]
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