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News I wanted to study both IT and business as I had taken both at A level and I worked with my teacher from high school to identify a suitable course. The first students to take a university degree in Information Technology Management for Business... [24 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News As well as enabling tourists to catch two types of surf on the beach, the network will enable high school teachers and students on Patmos and its surrounding islands to access online education resources, the companies said. [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News Youngsters are recruited to the scheme by Zenos' school and college outreach programmes. Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT - and also plugging a skills gap for helpdesk support technicians in the region. [23 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News Mobile social networking is also popular with many gadget-owning Brits, the survey conducted by ICM Research and the London School of Economics (LSE) for mobile operator Vodafone has found. Britain is fast becoming a nation peopled by hunchbacked... [17 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News L is for London School of Economics Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. People aged 16 to 25 have been using the site MyLifeMyID.org, launched today, to discuss the £4.4bn National... [09 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News L is for London School of Economics Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. The total write-down of EPA2 assets since the project began in 2005 is £10.8m, comprising £5.5m in 2006-07 and £5.3m in 2007-08. [02 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more…
News Boring" school IT curriculum slammed Those holding off upgrading their mobile have an even greater treat in store according to Indian tech giant Infosys, which revealed its holographic handset that it hopes to launch on the unsuspecting public in... [02 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News Karen Hollands, founder of online language school Toniks, has built her business around Skype to link pupils to language tutors based across the world. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the... [02 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 of secondary school subjects. [01 Jul 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News It also found less than 10 per cent of respondents believe the benefits of an IT career were communicated to them at school. Rodd added that studying a computing or ICT A-Level at school has "a surprisingly big impact" on whether a student... [23 Jun 2008]
University ramps up network bandwidth for e-learning
News The university selected ntl:Telewest Business to replace its WAN with a high speed metro Ethernet VPN network, which connects its main building and central campus at Northampton Square in Clerkenwell to 10 remote sites, including Cass Business... [23 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the school of computing and creative technologies at the University of Abertay, Dundee, has called for a radical overhauling of the curriculum in secondary schools as "boring" ICT classes which focus on Word... [17 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn business rules including digital rights management, Nokia's software chief has claimed. Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates... [12 Jun 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News Posters (see image below) urge children to text details of potential offenders, such as their name, nickname, school and year. A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is being trialled in schools in East London. [03 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News Colao holds a Business Degree from Bocconi University and an MBA with Honours from the Harvard Business School. Mobile operator Vodafone has announced its CEO Arun Sarin is to retire. Sarin will relinquish the reins after five years in the top job... [27 May 2008]
