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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...
[15 Apr 2008]
News This millennium skills gap was plugged predominantly by IT pros from India, it said. According to the report, the population of highly skilled international software professionals jumped by 26,000 in the UK between 2000 and 2007 as "the almost...
[25 Mar 2008]
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.
[17 Mar 2008]
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...
[13 Mar 2008]
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...
[07 Mar 2008]
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.
[29 Jan 2008]
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...
[24 Jan 2008]
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...
[02 Jan 2008]
News However, the research showed a strong dislike of bringing in IT professionals from overseas to fill the gap. Skills Survey 2007: Banks hardest hit by staff crisis Other issues that dominated the channel were an IT skills shortage within the...
[17 Dec 2007]
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...
[29 Oct 2007]
News We've got a very big skills gap. Timms called on the IT community to help plug this skills gap. At the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in Westminster, the minister said schoolchildren's enthusiasm for computer games should be harnessed...
[22 Oct 2007]
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...
[05 Sep 2007]
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. Skills Survey 2007: the resultsFind out from this year's Skills Survey: ¦
[04 Sep 2007]
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...
[07 Aug 2007]
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...
[27 Jun 2007]
News Four of New Zealand's top IT companies are looking to plug the country's skills gap by poaching UK talent - and they are recruiting this week. Not all those jobs can be filled by people from New Zealand so the UK has been targeted to help plug the...
[13 Oct 2006]
News Mind the IT skills gap? However reader comments responding to that story expressed doubt on the existence of a skills gap in the UK. Another reader - a software manager from Milton Keynes - also took a sceptical view of the skills gap.
[18 Sep 2006]
News UK businesses continue to face difficulties recruiting qualified IT staff, with one in five companies experiencing problems finding applicants with the right skills. However, a wider problem relates to applicants' "non-technical skills", according...
[02 Aug 2006]
News The UK software industry is struggling to deal with the rise of offshoring, a 'geeky' image and the country's IT skills gap - but there's still hope. Businesses must also learn to appreciate the importance of the IT skills gap, which will affect...
[05 Jul 2006]
News Price added that offshoring will also have an impact on the skills gap, with many entry-level positions now being sent overseas leading to fewer people progressing naturally up to more senior management positions.
[12 Jun 2006]
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