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Consultant roles demand communication skills
Many IT professionals see consultancy as a desirable career, offering big bucks and exciting projects. But just because you are an expert in your industry...
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Global village to impact on working practices
According to Howard Grosvenor, managing consultant at people performance specialist SHL, global changes will have a great impact on the way we work in the future. UK employees will need to be flexible enough to continually work across time zones, lan... Opinion
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Towards another dotcom boom?
At the University of Southampton's School of Electronics & Computer Science, we have just witnessed a major increase in computer science undergraduate numbers. In fact, our recent intake of 94 undergraduates, which is 20% higher than last year, is th... Opinion
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Making Projects Work spring school to teach management skills
The latest PROMS-G spring school, entitled Making Projects Work, will offer attendees the chance to improve their project management skills. Opinion
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The Puzzler: find squares made of two digit primes
The wonderful world of recreational mathematics Opinion
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Government's IT training cuts are deeply damaging
Apart from a narrow list of exempt courses, the government has withdrawn support from students wishing to retrain in vital subjects. Needless to say, ICT isn't on the list, writes Rob Wilson, shadow minister for higher education. Opinion
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Soft skills and hard facts
Last year a survey by the US Society of Information Management listed the top 10 professional concerns of CIOs. The issues are perennial and remain essentially the same in the UK, although they might not be listed in the same order: Opinion
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Get it write: writing rules for IT professionals
IT hiccups, I've had a few, and usually an IT expert has fixed them for me. Problems have arisen only when the said expert has advised... Opinion
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Computer Weekly bloggers face up to 2008
At the end of 2007, we asked Computer Weekly's band of bloggers to prognosticate for 2008. Opinion
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IT staff fear cost of sub-prime lending on jobs market
The losses from lending to "sub-prime" borrowers who were a poor credit risk are racking up. UBS has declared losses of around £6.5bn, Citigroup £5.5bn and Morgan Stanley almost £5bn. UK high-street banks are not exempt: Barclays has written off £1.3... Opinion
