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The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment Schools are boring IT students to death, and it's the fault of universities that computer games companies are struggling to recruit. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. [09 Jul 2008]
Vodafone boosts apprenticeship scheme
News Mobile retailer Phones4U is a recent recruit to the apprenticeship scheme and will be taking on 227 apprentices this year in retail and contact centre management, according to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. [25 Feb 2008]
Student Laptop Mandates: Creating the Competitive Campus
White Paper Colleges and universities that seek to recruit and retain students in today's competitive higher education market are increasingly turning to laptop and tablet PC mandate initiatives to make their programs more attractive to today's tech-savvy... [12 Dec 2007]
Want a new job? No thanks, say techies
News The Department for Innovation, Skills and Universities this week announced an expansion to its business training support programme, Train to Gain, which includes a funding boost for SME management training - from £4m per year to £30m per year... [27 Nov 2007]
'Poor' graduate skills turn off recruiters
News Price said employers want a blend of technical, business and personal skills from graduates and added e-skills UK is working with universities to offer more business-oriented technology degree courses. [07 Jun 2007]
Engineers use their SaaS for recruitment
Case Study When Atkins initially piloted the SaaS system with its UK graduate recruitment drive it had to get the software up and running within three months to make the graduate 'milkround' - where companies tour UK universities each year to advertise their... [25 Apr 2007]
BA launches graduate IT recruitment drive
News Paul Coby, CIO at BA, said the programme would suit graduates of the new IT management for business degrees now being offered by several UK universities. British Airways is trying to recruit some of the country's top graduates for a new 'IT... [23 Feb 2007]
CIO Jury: Graduates lack basic skills
News Later we worked directly with the 'older' universities and that enabled us to recruit successfully. The quality of graduates also varies across different universities. Steve Clarke, head of internal computing at AOL UK, said when he recruited for a... [04 Jan 2007]
Infosys targets UK graduates in recruitment drive
News The company has already recruited 125 graduates for a similar programme in the US and is now looking initially for 25 graduates from 12 UK universities, including Cambridge and University College London. [04 Oct 2006]
Cerf's up: Google's net guru looks for UK talent
News Vint Cerf will be visiting universities around the country in support of Google's recruitment drive. Vint Cerf is here in London to support that drive and will be visiting a number of universities to stimulate interest among students. [07 Mar 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 They are also looking to engineering schools and technology universities to provide more content on subjects such as business, management, finance, architecture and contracts. Peynot added companies won't be able to wait until the universities get... [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 One outcome is that many universities have had to implement remedial courses to bring students up to the point they would have achieved had their earlier schooling been of higher quality. In some countries the output of technical positions such as... [10 Mar 2005]
Gates: 'We need more software research'
News In a tour of universities he took this spring, he found that university researchers were tackling the same issues. Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Monday called on the academic community to recruit more students into... [03 Aug 2004]
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