skills shortage
RSS skills shortageAre dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News A recent report by the CBI blamed poor teaching in schools for contributing to a shortage of graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths. But it warned the UK's potential around technology - and thus the... [23 Sep 2009]
Who will hold the offshoring crown in 2020?
News If that trend continues you will have a shortage of suitable talent. The primary cause is the quality of communications and language skills, the second is that some people are not educated well enough to... [14 Aug 2009]
Microsoft IT Academy Program Helps Malaysia Narrow ICT Skills Gap
White Paper To help address an acute and growing shortage of workers with strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills, Microsoft is partnering with 20 institutions of higher learning across... [25 Jul 2009]
The Future Is Fusion: The Industry-Changing Impact of Accelerated Computing
White Paper This inflection point is being driven by the confluence of the factors such as Evolving commercial and consumer workloads (including virtualization and increasingly media-rich applications) that demand simultaneous energy efficiency,... [11 Jun 2009]
Outsourcing 2.0: What's the new India?
News The UK is predicted to have a shortfall of more than 14,000 IT specialists by 2010 and the US a shortage of 15 million by 2025, Willcocks said. They should look to learn from India's mistakes of not developing... [31 Mar 2009]
Revealed: The CIO's biggest challenges this year
News One positive note - for CIOs at least - was few IT chiefs are reporting a skills shortage, except for some gaps in database administrator roles, Itil expertise and security, although one IT chief warned... [09 Mar 2009]
Two-thirds of UK's top IT security jobs unfilled
News An IT skills shortage has been blamed for two-thirds of the top computer security jobs available in the UK remaining unfilled. The genuine issue is that there is a shortage of... [03 Feb 2009]
Techies: Should you be job-hunting this January?
News According to REC's Gallagher, while demand varies by sector, a skills shortage remains in certain areas of the city of London. The contracting boom is also identified by Sean Gallagher, a director at the... [09 Jan 2009]
Tech job demand rallying in economic storm
News CEO of IT training company Firebrand Training, Rob Chapman told silicon.com that given the skills shortage in the tech industry, demand is unlikely to suffer as much as sectors where... [08 Jan 2009]
Is there a UK IT skills gap or not?
News Research by tech jobs site The IT Job Board has found the majority (56 per cent) of UK techies that responded to its survey are convinced there is a skills shortage in the UK tech sector. Asked why there... [23 Dec 2008]
Financial sector worst hit by IT skills shortage
News The financial services industry remains the most hampered by an IT skills shortage, according to the 2008 silicon.com Skills Survey. The high-tech sector also reported a significant... [15 Dec 2008]
Editor's Blog: Crisis of confidence for CIOs
Comment Most agree the shortage of women in IT is a bad thing. Quite recently I was talking to a head of IT who blamed the broader CIO community for failing to address issues that faced them all, such as skills... [02 Dec 2008]
IT suffering 'dire shortage' of core skills
News According to the study, published on Monday, there is a shortage of IT skills across Europe and the US, even though such skills are core assets needed during a recession. Last year, we... [02 Dec 2008]
Naked CIO: Bring down IT salaries
Comment This is largely because the shortage of technical skills has increased IT salaries at rates other aspects of the business cannot match. The cost of employing labour cannot be removed from the cost of... [24 Nov 2008]
Inbox: ID guinea pigs, snooping database and CIO standards
Comment Anyway, what skills shortage! Readers also had a thing or two to say about the latest CIO Jury, which called for a recognised accreditation for IT skills. CIOs back call for common... [17 Oct 2008]
