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News By teaching employees to look after their details on social networking sites such as Facebook, GE Commercial is hoping to extend good security practice across the organisation. The Australian division of GE Commercial Finance is encouraging more... [30 Oct 2007]
Unmetered mobile internet and teaching, protecting and exploiting the e-children
News The service will be offered through Genie, BT's mobile portal, for a flat rate cost of £20 per month that will give the user unlimited free text messaging and mobile internet access. BT has clearly timed its move in the hope of gaining the... [17 Nov 2000]
Education 2.0 - more than just e-learning
News Universities and colleges are looking at how technology can improve their teaching and bring their content to wider audiences. It's a broader issue exploring how technology can change the way teaching is done, how learning can be extended beyond... [13 Jul 2006]
Skills Council course teaches 'How to use your mobile phone'
News A Learning and Skills Council initiative is teaching adults how to use their mobile phones as part of a drive to increase awareness of the benefits of modern technology. The course is already attracting criticism from some quarters as questions are... [14 May 2003]
University of New Orleans reopens online
News After weeks overseeing phone banks and fielding calls from students and other employees at his stricken school, University of New Orleans (UNO) professor Ken Walsh is going back to teaching. The internet teaching will be critical in linking a... [06 Oct 2005]
IT one of the 'most boring' jobs for graduates
News Administration, secretarial and sales work were top of the "Workforce Boredom Index", respectively, while unsurprisingly teaching was deemed to be the least boring career a university leaver can go into. [27 Jul 2006]
Blair launches classroom of the future
News The £4m project will see every teacher given their own laptop, internet access, lesson-planning software and other high-tech teaching aids. Education minister Estelle Morris hopes the use of computers and new software will help to reduce teaching... [04 Jan 2002]
Highland schools get broadband
News The snappily titled Highlands and Islands Pathfinder Broadband Procurement Project will link up 850 sites with the focus on providing teaching and learning support. It will provide a tremendous boost to modern learning and teaching practice and to... [27 Mar 2007]
Schools turn to IT to boost learning
News According to Becta, the government agency charged with helping schools use IT to improve teaching, schools and colleges now have more than 1.2 million desktop computers. But as well as using IT to improve the teaching process, increasingly schools... [08 Dec 2005]
Call centres set to overtake farms and schools
News The report claims call centres will employ 465,000 full- and part-time agents within three years, while farming and teaching combined, will account for just 375,000. Evan Kirchheimer, analyst at Datamonitor, said: "We selected the teaching and... [12 Jul 1999]
Microsoft gets partners for e-skills push
News Digital learning] is much more than just sitting down and teaching someone about computers. It's also about teaching young people to realise the relevance of e-skills and understand the importance of learning these skills, he explained. [30 Jan 2007]
C++ programmers 'alive and well', says creator
News A lot of teaching was going to Java, but more are teaching C++ again. The creator of the C++ programming language claims there has been a backlash against some of the newer programming languages such as Java and C#, with developers moving back to... [25 Apr 2005]
RFID blood-tracking trial planned
News As the specification was developed in a large teaching hospital, CfH wants to pilot it in a smaller, non-teaching hospital.silicon.com Public Sector A new tracking system using technologies including RFID is being developed to make it easier to... [22 Aug 2006]
CIO Jury: Are IT chiefs underpaid?
News Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said IT bosses, on average, do earn enough but CEOs need better methods of ascertaining what their IT directors are worth. [24 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Gates' password prediction wrong
News Ted Woodhouse, head of IT at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Gates' future gazing has never filled me with confidence - after all, this is the man who said that 640KB would always be more than enough for any desktop computer. [19 Nov 2004]
