courses academia
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News The UK games industry needs to play a more active role in academia, helping to shape the syllabuses of university courses to ensure games development students graduate with the right skills for industry, a Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar... [08 Jul 2008]
A Comparison of Ada and Java as a Foundation Teaching Language
White Paper This phenomenon has not escaped the attention of academia, and a growing number of colleges and universities are looking at Java as a candidate foundation” language on which to base computer science curricula. [03 Jul 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News The teaching of IT in secondary schools needs radically overhauling as it is putting kids off a career in technology, leading figures from academia and industry have warned. According to Price, an A-level in computing is only a prerequisite for... [17 Jun 2008]
Interdisciplinary Design Program at Texas A&M University: Implications for a Services Science Program
White Paper Transitions to such environments involve investments by industry, in terms of training personnel, and by academia in terms of training future engineers. This experience can be leveraged to offer effective interdisciplinary courses in services... [31 Aug 2007]
SAS 9 at the Warsaw School of Economics
White Paper This case study explains how SAS helps to bridge academia and business, educating future generations of economic strategists and senior managers. Since the early 1990s, WSE has radically reformed its teaching program, integrating courses and giving... [28 Sep 2006]
Leader: Why we don't need more techies
Leader It's a small step on the right road but there needs to be a much closer alliance between business and academia if the UK is going to be able to produce the right calibre of IT leaders of the future. Some people point to the declining numbers of... [02 Aug 2006]
Leader: Ethical hacking - launch, teach... hope
Leader Perhaps the real worry here is the university will be aware that launching the course is likely to create publicity and academia is becoming an industry which grows ever more interested with column inches and the effect they have on bums on seats... [19 Jun 2006]
Grenoble Ecole de Management: Pioneering New Territory in Academia
White Paper The courses at GEM are designed to explore a wide range of contemporary issues such as: customer relationship management, technical architecture adapted to business intelligence and enterprise performance management, all with a common goal of... [14 Jun 2006]
MathSoft Taps IntraLearn Software for Web-Based Training
White Paper MathSoft, Inc.the provider of the broadest line of technical calculation and analytical software for business and academia, has created an innovative Web site for product training and online education, the MathSoft Learning Site at http://learning... [21 Jul 2004]
Microsoft funds secure code-writing course at Leeds Uni
News Dr Stuart Neilsen-Marsh, .Net academia manager at Microsoft, said that future courses supported by Microsoft are likely to include e-learning, pen-based devices, gaming, mobile and wireless technologies. [25 Mar 2003]
Training up for the business of IT
Comment So how can academia and industry work together to remove the gap between theory and practice? Dr Adrian Jackson from the University of Huddersfield said his School of Computing and Mathematics offers vocational courses such as Computing in Business... [07 Feb 1999]
