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Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News Women hold the key to plugging a critical skills shortfall that is affecting the entire UK tech industry, says the IT & Telecoms Insights 2008 report by e-skills UK based on Gartner research. The telecommunications industry's need for new skills...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in foreign countries, how does the UK police feel it is able to do this? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

Police forces lack <strong>e</strong>-crime expertise and resources

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

News Peter Russell, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Local units do not have sufficient resources or skills to deal with some of the threats we are now facing. All 12 CIOs and IT directors on this week's CIO Jury are backing silicon.com's e-Crime...

Tags: cio jury, e-crime, cio, crime

[18 Mar 2008]

Invest in staff training, businesses told

News Responding to the white paper, Karen Price, CEO of IT sector skills body e-skills UK, said she welcomed the recognition of "the vital role of IT and IT skills in innovation". Tackling the skills shortage is key to turning the UK into a successful...

Tags: skills, training, innovation, education

[17 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News Research out earlier this year from IT industry skills body, e-skills UK, found numbers of computing student in the UK had fallen 50 per cent in the last five years, while the number of women working in IT had dropped to just one-in-five workers.

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap

News That's according to research from industry skills body e-skills UK, which notes computing student numbers in the UK are falling - down 50 per cent in the last five years. Meanwhile, the number of women in the sector is falling - down to just one in...

Tags: jobs, telecoms, skills, industries

[29 Jan 2008]

Grad IT training masterfully fast tracked

News The IT Professional Development Programme (IT PDP) has been developed by employers, universities and IT industry skills body e-skills UK and is designed to help new recruits to the industry rapidly build skills and experience in the early years of...

Tags: grads, jobs, skills, track

[24 Jan 2008]

'Boring' e-learning fails to engage staff

News Skills Survey 2007 Find out the exclusive results of this year's silicon.com Skills Survey: ¦ Cultural and technological barriers are hindering the wider use of e-learning among UK organisations. A survey of 998 managers by the Chartered...

Tags: e-learning, chartered management institute, survey, learning

[06 Dec 2007]

IT skills 'vital for UK's future'

News He also praised the work of e-skills UK, the government's sector skills council for IT and telecoms. Karen Price, the chief executive officer of e-skills UK, speaking at the Westminster event, said the IT skills shortage is in part due to falling...

Tags: it skills, e-skills uk, it grads, skills gap

[29 Oct 2007]

Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'

News The minister praised the work of e-skills UK, the government IT-sector skills council, and said the government plans to follow the recommendations of the Leitch Report, which primarily advised funding as a solution to the skills problem.

Tags: education, government, skills

[22 Oct 2007]

Paul Coby

AS Profile Coby also takes an active role in wider industry groups and is chairman of Sita, the airline industry IT body, and chairman of the CIO board for IT industry skills group e-Skills UK. A respected statesman and valued spokesman for the CIO community...

[12 Oct 2007]

Stories of the Month - September 2007

News But still, despite such innovations there is still room for improvement - it seems the lack of tech skills in Europe is slowing down the implementation of new projects according to the European Commission.

Tags: iplayer, europe, contactless payment, vista

[28 Sep 2007]

Young targeted by "Revitalise IT" scheme

News e-skills UK has launched an initiative designed to address the falling numbers of students taking IT-related degrees. The "Revitalise IT" scheme will aim "to transform the attitudes of young people to IT-related education and careers, and support...

Tags: e-skills uk, it degrees, it skills

[19 Sep 2007]

Business tech degree to tackle legacy issues

News Cobol migration specialist Micro Focus has announced it has joined e-skills UK's Employer Strategy Forum (ESF) for the Information Technology Management in Business (ITMB) degree course. Karen Price, e-skills UK chief executive, said at the time...

Tags: it, skills, legacy

[23 Aug 2007]

UK top for techie training - almost

News More than one in four (26 per cent) of IT pros in the UK had received training in the preceding month, against a European average of 15 per cent, research from e-skills UK and the European Commission's statistical office Eurostat reveals.

Tags: women in it, it skills, training

[14 Aug 2007]

Lords: Government must do better on e-crime

News On the law-enforcement end, the committee recommended the government increase the resources and skills available to the police and criminal justice system to catch and prosecute e-criminals and establish a centralised and automated system...

Tags: house of lords, policing, e-crime

[10 Aug 2007]

IT failing in 'grab a grad' bids

News According to separate research from e-skills UK, two-fifths of recruiters said business, interpersonal and non-technical skills are lacking in new graduates. Other trends show companies are also keen to assess a candidate's soft skills through...

Tags: it skills shortage, it skills, skills shortage, soft skills

[10 Jul 2007]

Are consultants a waste of money?

News Neil Hammond, head of IT of British Sugar, said: "If there is there a specific question you want tackled or a specific, well defined project you want undertaken then consultants can be very useful in order to supplement resource and skills or take...

Tags: consultants, cio jury

[21 Jun 2007]

'Poor' graduate skills turn off recruiters

News Four out of 10 recruiters quizzed as part of UK sector skills council e-skills UK's ICT Inquiry said business, non-technical and interpersonal skills are lacking in new graduates, suggesting a skills shortage continues to trouble UK companies...

Tags: graduates, recruiters, e-skills, skills

[07 Jun 2007]

David Burden

CIO Profile Burden is also on the UK NHS commercial advisory board, the e-Skills UK CIO board and the HP cross-industry global advisory board, as well as being a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. What they say about him: "With British, French, Canadian...

[06 Jun 2007]

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