You are here: silicon.com > Tags

208 stories on

skills for students

Sort by: Date | Relevance


FHT Esslingen University Students Gain DB2 Skills for Real-World Edge

whitepaper Once upon a time, university curricula might have been heavy on theory and light on the real-world teachings that can ready students for the job market. But today, college campuses are embracing their role in preparing students for their futures.

Tags: linux server os

[24 Feb 2004]

Business Students Sharpen C# Programming Skills With Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office

whitepaper Microsoft released a new application package to create project templates for document-centric solutions for the host applications Word and Excel. Using Microsoft Visual Basic or C#, code modules can be created in much the same way as using Visual...

Tags: programming languages, excel, modules, visual basic

[15 Jun 2007]

Business Students Sharpen C# Programming Skills With Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office

whitepaper

[15 Jun 2007]

Authorized Cisco Training Develops Skills for University of Ottawa

whitepaper Regularly scheduled in Global Knowledge's Ottawa training facility, the courses ensure students get the skills they need, when they need them, in a local environment. Recognized as Canada's premier bilingual university, the University of Ottawa was...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, training, knowledge, global knowledge

[17 May 2006]

Job Seeking Skills for Engineers: The Use of Role Play in a Learning Exercise

whitepaper Throughout this subject the emphasis is on developing skills which will be useful to students throughout their careers, rather than the short term goal of completing the required assignments. The role-play is part of a subject taken by third year...

Tags: wireless lan, subject, skills, job

[26 Jul 2005]

Networking Skills for the Roma Community

whitepaper Between October 2003 and February 2004, the students studied an English course first to ensure everyone had adequate reading comprehension skills, and then completed the four CCNA Courses of the Cisco Networking Academy Program.

Tags: training and certification, community, networking, program

[13 Apr 2007]

BYU Hawaii Seeks to Satisfy Job Market Demand for Linux Skills by Offering Red Hat Academy

whitepaper Brigham Young University Hawaii (BYUH) is home to nearly 2,500 students from more than 70 different countries. The challenge was to educate its computer technology students to be highly qualified and experienced in the use of Linux and to prepare...

Tags: computer courses, students, hat, red hat

[10 Jun 2005]

IT2020 Provides Matoaca High School Students and Staff With the Latest IT Skills...

whitepaper Ideally they were looking for an IT foundation that could feed their more advanced academy programs like A+ and Cisco. Matoaca High School, in Chesterfield County, VA, is one of a new generation of 'Academy Schools' that are opening across the...

Tags: career development, school, programs, program

[08 Jun 2006]

High School Students Learn Workplace Skills With Palm Handhelds

whitepaper It also provided the students with an easy way to communicate and share information and develop "real-world" skills. This streamlined administrative tasks for a student-run business and helped the students to stay organized personally and as well...

Tags: palm, communicate, share, school

[16 Apr 2007]

Ball State University Trains and Certifies High School Special Education Students in Basic Computing Skills

whitepaper As they discussed the needs of the students they were serving, computer skills training options were proposed. Together, the university and local workforce development and special services organizations discussed options to meet the needs of 16 to...

Tags: career development, students, workforce, ball

[14 Jun 2006]

UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'

News The UK is not suffering from an IT skills crisis despite the falling numbers of students opting for computer science degrees. The number of full-time undergraduates studying IT courses in the UK has fallen by a third since 2002 to 75,000 students...

Tags: techies, skills, cio jury

[11 Oct 2007]

SkillCheck Education Case Study: Harford Community College

whitepaper Recognizing the critical importance of computer skills in college course work, Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland wanted to ensure that all incoming students had the basic computer skills needed for them to be successful in their courses.

Tags: computer courses, students, skills, college

[09 Jun 2006]

£1,000 boost for tech and science students?

News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said undergraduate students need a greater incentive to study science and technology in order for the UK to combat its skills shortage. A £1,000 'golden carrot' annual bursary has been mooted by the...

Tags: science, students, qinetiq, skills

[13 Aug 2007]

Students to earn UCAS points from IT training

News The iPRO course is aimed at helping students develop professional IT skills for the workplace through theory and practical tasks such as designing computer networks. Students who complete a business-backed tech qualification will now be awarded...

Tags: ocr, cisco, it skills shortage, training

[05 Feb 2007]

Leader: Ethical hacking - launch, teach... hope

Leader And it could certainly be argued that those individuals who already have a career and reputation in IT to protect are going to be a safer bet for teaching these skills to than students who are yet to make the vast majority of choices which will...

Tags: ethical hacking

[19 Jun 2006]

Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads

News Chapman believes "complexity" in today's IT world and the demand for "niche skills" means it's far harder for universities to prepare students for the workplace. Nick Pears, admissions tutor for undergraduate courses at York University's Department...

Tags: business skills, it skills, graduates

[01 Oct 2007]

Leader: How do we get more kids into tech?

Leader At the moment IT is dogged by an image crisis which prevents many students, most notably girls, from opting for technical courses. The number of students taking technical A-levels has fallen and there is no sign the generation coming through behind...

Tags: skills gap

[27 Aug 2004]

Law Students Use Digital Note-Taking Program to Develop Law Practice Skills

whitepaper Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 enables students to record audio and video for in-class exercises on their laptops, analyze their performance, and collaborate with professors to refine their skills. In the past, professors who teach negotiation and...

Tags: online - distance education, class, skills, students

[13 Oct 2006]

Young targeted by "Revitalise IT" scheme

News e-skills UK has launched an initiative designed to address the falling numbers of students taking IT-related degrees. The programme will also use interactive digital content such as podcasts, mobile technology and user-generated content, to "put...

Tags: e-skills uk, it degrees, it skills

[19 Sep 2007]

School system and tech sector fail UK businesses

News The Welsh school system for the first time this year awarded a baccalaureate to students who were required to gain more vocational skills, including computer skills, during their study than under the previous system.

Tags: a-level, gcse, it

[26 Aug 2005]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: