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News These smaller "tier two and three cities" will be needed to provide about 50 per cent of the required skills in both ITO and BPO, where talent shortage remains a large constraint, according to the report.
[06 May 2008]
News Even if they can find cheaper labour or more generous tax incentives in other countries, they will struggle to find a similarly large supply of experienced technical and language skills. India's fears that other countries are undercutting its...
[06 May 2008]
News Cobol skills are worth the most in the market, according to the survey - commanding an average wage of £41,870 - while Cisco skills languish at the bottom of the pay-scale, yielding £32,320. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down...
[02 May 2008]
News So far, its equipment has gone to Ghana's National Health Students Association and the Crescent Future Kids organisation in Zambia, which helps give young people the skills to contribute to their nation's economy.
[21 Apr 2008]
News Offshoring is about working where there is access to high quality skills and services at a lower cost. AS Murthy, head of human resources for Satyam, highlighted the shortage of skills among the 300,000 Indian students who graduate in engineering...
[21 Apr 2008]
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 However, Gartner argues that at the operating-system level, Linux deployments are showing smaller benefits in total cost of ownership as it is applied to more demanding projects, because of the technical skills required to use it: "Much of the...
[07 Apr 2008]
News This has been achieved through a combination of a move to offshore resourcing and greater emphasis on sustaining permanent staff skills. However, Brown added: "In some areas demand for IT skills is actually rising in the City.
[28 Mar 2008]
News 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 universal rollout of computing and internet facilities increased the demand for...
[25 Mar 2008]
News The design and management of these new corporate networks will require certain skills - in things like protocol offload, caching and application firewalls - that companies may currently lack. Because these skills are in short supply, organisations...
[25 Mar 2008]
News Western economies such as the UK and US are "seriously underestimating" the scale of the technology skills shortage they face, according to one of India's most influential IT leaders. But India has been forced to defend itself against claims of...
[18 Mar 2008]
News Peter Russell, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Local units do not have sufficient resources or skills to deal with some of the threats we are now facing. Local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber...
[18 Mar 2008]
News Tackling the skills shortage is key to turning the UK into a successful 'innovation nation', according to the government - which has set out its vision for promoting the uptake of new ideas in a Department of Innovation Universities and Skills...
[17 Mar 2008]
News Called Teachers TV, the online service offers educators teaching materials and guidance on how to enhance their own skills. A consortium led by ITN is in final negotiations over a £50m, five-year contract from the government to provide on-demand...
[14 Mar 2008]
News The results also reveal there is a significant skills gap in countries, including the UK, with established IT industries. Seventy-three per cent of respondents in these countries identified security, firewalls and data privacy as the most important...
[13 Mar 2008]
News An extra £60m over the next three years to provide new opportunities for people to gain the skills needed to enter the labour market. Tomorrow the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills will publish its science and innovation strategy...
[12 Mar 2008]
News The association, which has 12 million member companies, had organised the event to remind European governments of the importance of e-skills training for smaller European businesses to remain competitive.
[09 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 People who have left education in the last three years have strong confidence in their IT skills but the organisations they work for are not always making the most of this skill-set, according to database software company FileMaker which...
[03 Mar 2008]
News Two columns provoking much debate this month are this one where the Naked CIO rails against arrogant job applicants who lack right skills, and this one on the political pitfalls of supplying home workers with fancy equipment.
[28 Feb 2008]
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