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Recession hitting low paid IT jobs
News The average graduate salary for computer science grads last year was just over £21k, according to a Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu) report published earlier this month, while the starting salary for... [24 Nov 2009]
IT grads worst hit by recession
News While graduate jobs are thinner on the ground than last year in the vast majority of industries - with one in four vacancies vanishing - the latest bi-annual report from the Association of Graduate... [06 Jul 2009]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment What's wrong with training a physics/history/media studies graduate? What's wrong with cross-training the ample population of techies that are sitting on the shelf due to ageist employment practices? The... [28 Aug 2008]
Offshoring sends techies' wages up
News IDS puts the upward spiral down to a skills gulf opening up in IT's mid levels, following years of falling IT graduate numbers and companies sending junior tech jobs offshore leaving those students that do pursue an IT... [26 Aug 2008]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News Anthony Watts, a student at the University of Glamorgan who is doing a BSC (Hons) in Computer Games - one of Skillset's kitemarked courses - said students would welcome industry getting more involved in syllabus creation and development... [08 Jul 2008]
IT teacher applications continue to decline
News The latest stats from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR) show total applicant numbers across all subjects for England, Scotland and Wales are 18 per cent down on 2007 - with IT showing the second worst decline... [01 Jul 2008]
IT grads top jobless league table
News The view from the grads: silicon.com caught up with two of IBM's 2006 graduate intake and asked how they went about joining one of the industry's biggest names. The average first job salary for any... [03 Jan 2007]
University of New Orleans reopens online
News Many students - particularly those who were planning to graduate in autumn 2005 - emailed to plead that the school start up again somehow. Dozens of colleges in the area have been damaged, and some in the region are... [06 Oct 2005]
Kids still shunning IT in worrying numbers
News Hetty Browne, an information management graduate in 1998 and now MD of interactive services provider NeoOne, told silicon.com that too many girls fall at the first hurdle. Despite the opportunities for well-paid... [26 Aug 2004]
Training up for the business of IT
Comment Businesses too are reacting to the problem: a recent computing student now working at National Power said most companies offer graduate induction programmes for their IT staff, ensuring that "an IT degree is no longer a... [07 Feb 1999]
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