Troubled healthcare IT firm iSoft, a key supplier to the NHS’s £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT), has admitted it may not survive after six-month results showed further losses.
The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on a current talking point.
A surge in demand for web skills, driven by the creation of second generation websites including MySpace and YouTube, has pushed up pay rates for top web developers.
Most human resources managers give greater weight to work experience than professional qualifications when filtering candidates to fill IT posts, according to new research.
A major government report on UK skills released tomorrow is expected to call for employers to have a greater say on the education system, provided they invest in training their own workforce.
IT managers feel their careers are stalling because their employers are failing to recognise the impact they have on the business, research from the Chartered Management Institute has revealed.
Employers and the IT profession need to find ways of encouraging more people to take up computer science at university if the country is to avoid a crippling skills shortage within four years, the British Computer Society has warned.