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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 report tells IT professionals to change the way they...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News This millennium skills gap was plugged predominantly by IT pros from India, it said. Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based IT company Wipro, recently warned the Western world is "seriously underestimating" the scale of the tech skills shortage...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

Invest in staff training, businesses told

News While the UK's productivity performance has been improving steadily since 1997 it still lags behind some leading international competitors, according to the paper, which claims up to one-fifth of the productivity gap is due to lack of skills.

Tags: skills, training, innovation, education

[17 Mar 2008]

Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists

News The results also reveal there is a significant skills gap in countries, including the UK, with established IT industries. The security gap is even wider in China, India, Poland, Russia and South Africa where the emergence of a strong IT industry is...

Tags: security, wireless, skills, rfid

[13 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News Attracting more women is therefore essential to help to close this skills gap, it claims. 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...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…

Comment Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap I have seen IT teaching to the National Curriculum in Schools and it is appalling, the content and depth are nowhere near to approaching the skills needed for the most mundane office tasks - let...

Tags: broadband, id cards, skills, data

[31 Jan 2008]

Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap

News Karen Price, CEO of e-skills UK, said as some IT activities move out of the country to lower cost nations, the UK's IT & telecoms sector must look to other industries to plug its skills gap by reskilling and upskilling workers.

Tags: jobs, telecoms, skills, industries

[29 Jan 2008]

Grad IT training masterfully fast tracked

News A new Masters level fast-track training programme has been launched to boost the skills of the next generation of IT professionals in the UK. The IT Professional Development Programme (IT PDP) has been developed by employers, universities and IT...

Tags: grads, jobs, skills, track

[24 Jan 2008]

School Equips Students With Industry Qualifications to Bridge Local IT Skills Gap

whitepaper As part of its commitment as a specialist college, Long Eaton School sought to resolve an IT skills gap identified by local businesses. The school joined the Microsoft IT Academy Program to offer industry-standard qualifications to the community.

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[17 Jan 2008]

North-South pay gap narrows

News The company predicts the North-South IT pay gap will narrow further as more technology businesses and government departments bolster their presence in cities such as Manchester. The narrowing of the North-South pay gap for IT workers is in contrast...

Tags: pay, skills, north, professionals

[02 Jan 2008]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News However, the research showed a strong dislike of bringing in IT professionals from overseas to fill the gap. Other issues that dominated the channel were an IT skills shortage within the financial services (FS) sector, offshoring and faster...

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

IT skills 'vital for UK's future'

News Price said the gap in skills could not be plugged by offshoring and outsourcing, due to the importance of proximity to suppliers for IT projects. UK governments have let slip opportunities to narrow the shortage in IT skills, according to a...

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

[29 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...

Comment Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap' So they want to plug the skills gap ! I've been an IT professional for nearly 20 years, I learnt Cobol, Pascal and others, but I've had to self learn my new skills without any help or assistance.

Tags: skills, vista, mobile

[25 Oct 2007]

Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'

News Timms called on the IT community to help plug this skills gap. We've got a very big skills gap. The minister underlined the need for additional funding to encourage IT skills development. The minister praised the work of e-skills UK, the government...

Tags: education, government, skills

[22 Oct 2007]

Boards underestimate tech risk

News The IT Risk - Closing the Gap report quizzed 250 senior executives, including CIOs and internal audit managers. But she added this means the skills base within the internal audit departments may need to be reassessed to improve engagement with the...

Tags: technology, it, audit, board

[05 Sep 2007]

Women deserting tech industry

News The number of women resigning from IT jobs has risen over the last year and the pay gap between the sexes widened for the first time in 11 years. Val Lawson, chairwoman of the Women in Management Network, added that the increase in resignations is...

Tags: it, skills crisis, cmi, pay

[04 Sep 2007]

Skills Survey 2007: Staffing crisis deepens

News Despite recruitment difficulties caused by the skills shortage, fewer survey respondents than last year feel driven to consider software as a service (SaaS) as a means of plugging the gap - just 23 per cent said they have considered using SaaS...

Tags: business skills, it skills, skills survey 2007

[07 Aug 2007]

Techies lack communication and leadership skills

News Poor communication, leadership and project management skills among IT staff are hindering change management and business transformation programmes. Almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of CIOs and IT managers admit the progress of change management...

Tags: cio connect, skills

[27 Jun 2007]

VoiceXML Application Development Life Cycle: Building Usable Voice User Interfaces

whitepaper VoiceXML bridges the gap; it leverages the existing Web infrastructure and enables Web developers to build voice-enabled Web applications accessible from any telephone, by anyone, anywhere, anytime. This paper targets Java/J2EE developers who want...

Tags: xml, developers, user interface, voice

[23 Jun 2007]

David Burden

CIO Profile At the time he was spending a gap year travelling across Australia by train, hiking in New Zealand and taking part in ocean swimming competitions but was coaxed into the role by chairman Allan Leighton.

[06 Jun 2007]

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