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Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent
News The report says technology-related education is declining rapidly and that UK tech companies cannot recruit enough engineering, maths, science and technology graduates. The UK will lose its base of highly skilled technology workers unless training... [14 May 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Key factors in the choice of location will be local access to science and engineering graduates and government tax breaks. This is part of Wipro's strategy to expand its onshore operations in developed western countries and to recruit more local... [20 Mar 2008]
Gov't launches tech talent search
News It's hoped the Civil Service Technology in Business Fast Stream will successfully recruit up to 20 of the best graduates from around the UK this year.silicon.com Public Sector The graduates will be placed in central government departments where... [18 Oct 2007]
'Poor' graduate skills turn off recruiters
News Four out of 10 recruiters quizzed as part of UK sector skills council e-skills UK's ICT Inquiry said business, non-technical and interpersonal skills are lacking in new graduates, suggesting a skills shortage continues to trouble UK companies... [07 Jun 2007]
Offshoring, ageism and image blamed for tech skills crisis
News One reader said that what was needed were "decent employers who are willing to train graduates and offer some sort of job security", but went on to point out that there's not many of them around, as most think that "IT is an expense that takes... [11 May 2007]
BA launches graduate IT recruitment drive
News British Airways is trying to recruit some of the country's top graduates for a new 'IT Professional Programme' at the airline. BA has 20 vacancies on the programme, which is open to graduates of any discipline as long as they have the skills and... [23 Feb 2007]
India's Wipro to create 500 new UK jobs
News Tata Consultancy Services has more than 3,000 staff in the UK and Infosys last year embarked on a drive to recruit UK graduates as the company expands its European operations. Indian outsourcing giant Wipro is expanding its operations in the UK... [23 Jan 2007]
CIO Jury: Graduates lack basic skills
News Graduates entering the workplace lack basic skills such as writing and arithmetic, and leave university with poor business awareness, according to CIOs. A third of silicon.com's 12-person CIO Jury IT user panel said they have had problems with the... [04 Jan 2007]
Infosys targets UK graduates in recruitment drive
News Offshore Indian IT giant Infosys is launching a drive to recruit UK graduates for entry-level jobs as the company expands its European operations. The company has already recruited 125 graduates for a similar programme in the US and is now looking... [04 Oct 2006]
India facing offshore call-centre skills crisis
News This warning has also been coming from inside the Indian BPO industry in recent months and Dan Sandhu, chief executive of Vertex India, said at an offshore conference in New Delhi in April that only a small percentage of the two million English... [12 Sep 2005]
IT skills crisis looms - and outsourcing won't help
News Increasing retirement rates combined with a drop in new IT graduates will leave companies struggling to recruit enough staff with business and technology skills, according to analyst group Forrester Research. [20 Jul 2005]
120,000 foreigners needed to plug India's skills gap
News At an offshore conference in New Delhi back in April, Dan Sandhu, CEO India and head of offshore business at United Utilities' business process outsourcing arm Vertex, warned that only a small percentage of the two million English-speaking... [03 Jun 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved?
Comment If we are not careful the future will see more and more of our valued graduates asking that most important of questions: would you like more ketchup on that? In some countries the output of technical positions such as power engineers has fallen to... [10 Mar 2005]
Government gets behind CIOs
News In the medium term it's about bringing in school leavers and graduates to grow our own capability. It's about how we recruit and re-instil professionalism in government," Watmore said. The head of the e-Government Unit has staged the first meeting... [14 Jan 2005]
UK call centres are rubbish: Official
News Given Wipro's interests, Banerjee is clearly an advocate of offshoring, but many other businesses are now moving call centre operations to India due to the large numbers of highly trained graduates who will battle for well-paid and sought-after... [17 Jun 2004]
