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IT careers and IT skills

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Cyber Girls First volunteers encourage girls to think high-tech

  More than 80 schoolgirls spent a day learning about computer hackers and rocket science – Cyber Girls First hopes they will become the next generation of technologists

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges

  Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to launch a Cloud Innovation Centre to solve cyber security challenges

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Percentage of women in tech remains low at 16%, with little growth in 10 years

  The WISE campaign is calling on the STEM sector to increase the number of women in core roles to 30%, after finding the ratio of men to women in IT has been static for a decade

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Black Hat Europe: Red teams and blue teams must evolve in the 2020s

  The red team versus blue team dichotomy is somewhat arbitrary and risks pigeonholing skilled security professionals into certain roles, says Facebook’s Amanda Rousseau

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  General Election 2019: Which manifesto is best for the UK’s tech sector?

  Computer Weekly breaks down each political party’s technology policies ahead of the upcoming General Election to see how they compare

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  UK government urged to ramp up digital skills

  Programme for International Student Assessment results show UK is lagging behind Asian powerhouses, according to Open Knowledge Foundation

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Labour SME minister back-tracks over claims party will scrap IR35 reforms if it comes to power

  Shadow small business secretary Bill Esterson clarifies comments he made during an event this week that suggested Labour had made halting the roll-out of the IR35 reforms to the private sector policy

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Hack Friday: This Christmas, fight back against cyber criminals

  It’s nearly Christmas, and cyber attacks and fraud attempts in the retail sector are ramping up. Is it time to panic? And is there anything we can do beyond hammering home the message around basic cyber security hygiene?

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  UKtech50 2019 – the most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 10th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  UKtech50 2019 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

  Computer Weekly profiles the achievements and journey of the founder of one of the world’s pioneering artificial intelligence companies, after his recognition as the most influential person in UK technology for 2019

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Most data scientists plan exit in 2020, Women in Data conference hears

  Survey shows lack of management support is behind a majority of data scientists planning to change jobs next year

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Australia’s Fenner Dunlop ditches tape backups for cloud

  Australian manufacturer of conveyor belts Fenner Dunlop has freed up its IT staff to focus on future projects by moving tape backups to the cloud

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  More women expected to join tech sector in 2020

  Research by travel booking platform Trainline has found more than half of people in tech think there will a rise in the number of female tech workers over the next year

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Staff in smaller businesses bogged down by poor communications

  Inadequate communications between senior management and staff in small to medium-sized enterprises is leading to poor decision-making

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Stemettes and Monster: Why focusing on STEM confidence is vital for girls

  Job site Monster and social enterprise Stemettes have partnered for a fourth year to run workshops aimed at preparing girls for the world of work and encouraging them into the STEM sector