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First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News Price said: "We are delighted to see the very first cohort of students graduate, and particularly delighted that two of the students from Northumbria have graduated with First Class honours degrees and great jobs. [24 Jul 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News However the government defended its decision to remove funding for second degrees in IT, saying the cuts will enable more people to study for the first time in higher education which should be a priority. [20 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Price pointed out there's been a 50 per cent drop in applications to computer science degrees over the last five years. The teaching of IT in secondary schools needs radically overhauling as it is putting kids off a career in technology, leading... [17 Jun 2008]
Working from home way to green dream?
News In a speech giving evidence about climate change being caused primarily by carbon emissions, Betts said greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing, the global average temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years, sea... [27 May 2008]
UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet
News The widespread implementation of low carbon tech holds the key to stave off damaging temperature rises of two degrees centigrade-plus the report says - stating this needs to happen by 2020. She said: "The consequence is to end up raising the... [12 Feb 2008]
IT skills 'vital for UK's future'
News 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 numbers taking IT-related degrees, accompanied by the increase in demand for IT professionals as the... [29 Oct 2007]
UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'
News The UK is not suffering from an IT skills crisis despite the falling numbers of students opting for computer science degrees. The number of full-time undergraduates studying IT courses in the UK has fallen by a third since 2002 to 75,000 students... [11 Oct 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads
News But even as the world of IT becomes ever-more enmeshed with the world of business, the number of university degrees that include technical components are on the rise - and this has the effect of broadening the pool of possible tech recruits... [01 Oct 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 first of these - "Ambition" - will aim to change attitudes towards technology-related degrees and careers.e-skills UK... [19 Sep 2007]
IBM working on spinning magnetic memory
News In phase-change memory, microscopic bits on a chip are heated up to several hundred degrees Celsius. Bill Gallagher, senior manager of exploratory non-volatile memory at IBM, said: "As you make that device smaller [MRAM], you need to increase the... [20 Aug 2007]
£1,000 boost for tech and science students?
News A £1,000 'golden carrot' annual bursary has been mooted by the organisation, for students taking science and engineering degrees, costing around £200m per year. Read all about IT… The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said undergraduate... [13 Aug 2007]
IT must pull together to battle skills shortage: Gov CIO
News And government statistics show only three out of 10 graduates with IT-related degrees go into the profession. There's a growing number of people with the right degrees but the wrong skills for particular parts of the IT sector," he said. [21 May 2007]
Intel demos next-gen memory chip
News Switching a bit from crystalline to amorphous requires pulsing it with an electronic charge or heating it up rapidly to 600 degrees Celsius without flipping the neighbouring bits. Intel has demonstrated a memory chip based on a concept it has been... [18 Apr 2007]
Kids shunning tech degrees
News The UK's technology industry is under threat as fewer people choose IT-related degrees and careers. The uptake of IT-related degrees has almost halved within four years from 27,000 in 2001 to 14,700 in 2005, according to research from e-skills UK. [05 Apr 2007]
Keeping the techie workforce happy - Indian style
News For example, recruits with engineering degrees might be paid somewhere between $3,000 to $7,000 per year. Across the big players, attrition rates (the proportion of staff quitting each year) run at around 14 per cent in IT positions but can run... [21 Mar 2007]
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