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IT education and training

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Argos provides free tablets and broadband to get UK online

  Argos will provide 10,000 free tablets and broadband access to encourage UK adults lacking digital skills to use the internet

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  IT professionals working more than 50 hours a week on the rise

  Number of IT professionals working more than 50 hours a week on the rise, finds Robert Walters survey

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Fledgling data science profession under strain, says SAS research

  The fledgling data science profession is under strain, with its mostly young workers struggling to adapt to corporate life

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  50 Wired2014: Next Generation tickets up for grabs

  Macmillan Science and Education teams up with Connecting Tech City to launch competition for young tech enthusiasts

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Barclays concludes first round of fintech accelerator

  Barclays has finished the first round of its financial services technology (fintech) startup accelerator, following a demo day

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  UNHCR deploys tablet-based learning at Dadaab refugee camp

  The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) deploys mobile-based learning system at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Civil service appoints first chief executive to drive digital transformation

  The civil service has appointed John Manzoni as its first CEO, with a remit to drive digital transformation across Whitehall

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Translation issues between IT and HR causing poor IT employment choices

  Job skills are being lost in translation between IT and HR says Hudson

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Virgin Media Business takes to the road to train SMEs in digital skills

  Virgin Media Business takes Big Digital Skills Hub on tour to encourage SMEs to share ideas and learn new skills

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Maggie Philbin gets behind Network Rail to drive more girls into tech

  TeenTech founder tells Computer Weekly how she’s joined forces with Network Rail’s Could IT Be You? competition

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Fewer layers of IT management causing workers to jump ship

  The number of management levels in IT are below UK average, leaving staff no choice but to move companies for career progression

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  London innovation centre launches to tackle data challenges

  An innovation and collaboration centre has been launched to develop ideas relating to data and the UK economy

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Accenture expands technology apprenticeship programme

  Accenture expands technology apprenticeship programme to London, Warwick and Newbury

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Corero’s CTO: Why I left HP for a startup

  Corero’s new CTO shares why he left HP to experience the fast pace world of tech startups again

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  IT graduates face high unemployment but better long-term prospects

  IT graduates more likely to find better jobs than those from other subjects, but face an unemployment rate well above average

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Creative industry employers team up for Next Gen Skills Academy

  Animation and gaming employers secure £6.5m investment from UKCES for training academy

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Bafta encourages kids to join games industry

  Bafta has reformed its initiative designed to encourage children to consider training for careers in the gaming industry

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking

  Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Big Lottery Fund awards £5.8m to give blind people IT skills

  Big Lottery Fund awards Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) £5.8m to teach online skills to people with impaired sight and hearing

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  The Prince’s Trust awards Ricoh Silver Patron status

  Ricoh set to provide equipment and software for all UK Prince’s Trust offices for next four years

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Ed Miliband pledges more IT apprenticeships to replace overseas workers

  Leader of the opposition Ed Miliband tells the Labour Party conference he will force companies to create apprenticeships if they use overseas IT workers

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  SVB's Erin Lockwood on innovation and changing the IT industry’s image

  Erin Lockwood of Silicon Valley Bank’s UK branch tells Computer Weekly it’s time for an industry image change

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  BAE Systems apprentices inspire the next generation

  Elaine Baker of BAE Systems talks to Computer Weekly about mentoring and career progression

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Investment needed to tackle digital divide, says Go ON UK

  Investment on internet infrastructure needs to be complemented by skills investment, says Go ON UK deputy CEO

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Labour activists call for £10bn plan to make UK a leading digital economy

  Digital activists in the Labour party want it to commit to a £10bn, five-year plan to make the UK the world’s leading digital economy

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  PGI open doors to cyber security academy

  PGI set to train security professionals how to identify and offest security threats

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  Wambiz tackles student retention with student and educator bridge

  Innovation Birmingham-based private social network platform secures more than £1m in investment

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Tower Hamlets leads the way in Code Club sessions

  25% of UK primary schools set to sign up for Code Club with 46% of Tower Hamlet schools on board so far

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Appathon UK partners show support with generous prizes

  Appathon UK partners pull together to offer a range of prizes for winning students

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  UK Stem universities dominate world rankings

  Three of the top five universities in the world specialising in Stem subjects are in the UK, according to higher education advisor Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  Over half of gamers are female

  Over half of gamers are female as app market drives women into the majority finds survey

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Kuato Studios teaches JavaScript through gaming

  How Kuato Studios is inspiring children to code through gaming

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Jeanne Harris: Successful business analytics combines data and intuition

  Accenture's executive research fellow explains how successful business analytics needs a crucible of skills

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  SVC2UK sends 17 female UK tech CEOs to Silicon Valley

  UK CEOs head to Silicon Valley for mentorship from US female IT leaders

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Pupils missing out on digital technology’s full potential

  Pupils missing out on potential of digital technology as teacher are not “computer savvy” finds Virgin Media Business survey

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Research reveals the inner psychology of IT professionals

  IT professionals are creative, flexible and strategic but can find it difficult to fit in with corporate culture, says psychology research

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Telecoms professionals still in high demand, says Manpower

  Telecoms and media jobs set to rise 6% in fourth quarter, according to Manpower survey

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company

  The Weather Company is a huge advocate for cloud-based technology, and everything it has built is cloud-enabled

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BBC launches Make it Digital 2015 education programme

  BBC continues its IT education drive with launch of Make it Digital

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

  A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  PA Consulting Group Raspberry Pi competition open for entries

  PA Consulting Group's 2014 Raspberry Pi competition launches with health and wellbeing theme

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  UK Gov, Rolls-Royce and Teach First join forces for STEM

  UK Gov teams up with Rolls-Royce and Teach First to train 75 new STEM teachers

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ucas blends rival cloud services from AWS and Microsoft for results day

  Ucas IT platform uses both AWS and Microsoft Azure services to scale up the infrastructure for a few hours during peak demand

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  NOA launches outsourcing qualification

  The National Outsourcing Association (NOA) has launched a course that will be the equivalent of a GCSE grade A* to C

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Parents call for help with coding homework

  As the computing curriculum commences, parents fear they won’t be able to support their children’s learning

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Training firm Codex DLD launches National Coding Week for Adults

  Training firm launches National Coding Week for Adults to spread the word that learning to program is not just for the young

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Parents unaware of computing curriculum starting this week

  Primary school kids are excited to start coding with computing curriculum, but parents have no idea

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

  Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  BBC gets kids coding with launch of TV series and Bitesize resources

  BBC launches Bitesize resources to support the computing curriculum along with CBBC and CBeebies programmes

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Shrivenham hosts bootcamp for Cyber Security Challenge UK

  Civilians and military personnel have completed an intensive cyber security bootcamp at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Foreign Office spends £92,574 on social media training

  The FCO has spent £92,574 on social media training since 2010, according to a freedom of information request

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  SAS top data scientist competition trains guns on UK energy market

  A “top data scientist” competition, sponsored by analytics company SAS, is training its focus on a UK energy crisis

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  GCSE computer science students increase fourfold

  Number of GCSE students taking computer science sees huge spike as new computing curriculum starts to take hold

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Digital industry apprenticeships unveiled by government

  Digital industry standards unveiled to ensure apprentices receive a high standard of training during placement

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Only 32% of CFOs have a close relationship with their CIO

  Only 32% of chief financial officers work closely with the CIO in their organisation to push forward business growth, research finds

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Ex-RBS CIO takes up Deutsche Bank role

  Former CIO of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Markets division announced as global head of IT infrastructure at Deutsche Bank

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Tech Partnership reacts to disappointing ICT A-Level figures

  Employers call for action after further decrease in number of ICT and computing A-Level students

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Businesses sign up to Young Rewired State Hyperlocal coding initiative

  Young Rewired State launches Hyperlocal so young people can continue learning coding skills from Festival of Code

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Students choose coding and software development careers over medicine and law

  Tech-savvy students considering careers in coding and software development over medicine and law, finds survey

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Dundee starts data engineering masters to span computer science

  The University of Dundee is adding a data engineering MSc degree to its business intelligence and data science masters programmes

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Tackling the IT skills gap: University degree or apprenticeship?

  While the GCE A-Level results show that more people than ever will be going to university, the IT industry is failing to attract enough new talent

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  A-Level results 2014: ICT students and grades fall slightly

  The GCE A-Level results showed that 13,650 people sat A-Level computing and ICT, of which 8,301 attained grades A*-C

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  UK recession benefits IT industry

  A fifth of IT staff believe the UK recession has had a positive impact on the IT industry, according to Randstad Technologies

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  US Airforce Association Cyber Patriot programme comes to UK

  Northrop Grumman teams up with Cyber Security Challenge UK to bring US Air Force Association education challenge to UK

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  60% of GDS staff contracts to expire within 12 months of general election

  Almost 60% of employees at the Government Digital Service (GDS) could be gone within 12 months of next year’s general election

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  Cisco: success of Commonwealth Games supports UK innovation

  The success of events like the Commonwealth Games helps foster IT skills development, says Cisco UK CEO Phil Smith

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Increased demand for IT staff in July

  Demand for permanent and temporary IT staff continues to rise, according to KPMG job index

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Six-year-olds as technologically aware as 45-year-olds

  Six-year-olds have the same understanding of communications technology as 45-year-olds, according to Ofcom report

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Durham University to offer Software Development for Business degree

  University of Durham becomes seventh in UK to offer Software Development for Business degree

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Festival of Code 2014 winners announced

  Five winners have been crowned at the Young Rewired State Festival of Code grand finale

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Government considers future of national infrastructure strategy

  DCMS launches consultation to help shape the UK’s digital connectivity strategy beyond 2020

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  George Osborne launches fintech innovation programme

  Chancellor George Osborne launches a programme designed to put the UK at the forefront of financial technology (fintech) innovation

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Osborne announces seven university technical colleges

  UTCs and studio schools to equip young people with technical and vocational training for tech and engineering sectors

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Firms believe skills crisis could hit science, tech and engineering

  The Prince’s Trust and HSBC report calls for employers to support young people into employment

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Emma Mulqueeny: 97ers generation are employing themselves

  Festival of Code brings young hackers together for Young Rewired State event to learn entrepreneurial skills

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Tectre workshop will help women to return to STEM careers

  Tectre to hold one-day Career Restart course for women who want to return to or start a STEM career

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Students and entrepreneurs brought together for Create! campaign

  Sherry Coutu speaks to Computer Weekly about Founders4Schools and the Create! campaign to bring students and entrepreneurs together

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  GCHQ certifies six cyber-security masters degrees

  GCHQ has certified six masters degrees focused on cyber-security as the government attempts develop the expertise required to make the UK as part of the National Cyber Security Programme.

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  UK government meets tech firms to take action against gender imbalance

  Education minister Nick Gibb called a summit with UK tech firms to take action against gender imbalance in IT industry

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Comparethemarket.com opens doors for Festival of Code

  Teenagers build apps at comparethemarket.com as part of Festival of Code, with the final taking place in Plymouth

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Anaplan opens York office in search of engineering talent

  Anaplan turns to York for R&D engineers as companies struggle to find talent in California

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  UK technology sector sees strongest growth since 2007 crash

  KPMG survey finds 61% of technology businesses reporting improved revenues and expect this to continue

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Girl guides go to camp for ‘TechAdventure 2014’ badge

  Raspberry Pi, Google and Kainos join forces with the girl guides for computer science tech camp in the New Forest

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Joanna Shields joins the government’s digital revolution

  Chair of Tech City UK, Joanna Shields is joining the prime minister’s Digital Taskforce to represent the digital sector

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  IT pros in demand as advertised IT vacancies spike 8% year on year

  Advertised IT vacancies continue to rise for the second quarter as IT pros still in demand, finds Robert Walters survey

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Carl Dawson to become IT director at M&S

  Marks and Spencer hires ex-Tesco internet retailing lead as IT director

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Five top UK tech startup clusters outside London

  Tech City UK has moved towards promoting the entire UK, rather than just the capital

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Skills shortages identified as key risk to government digital strategy

  Government Digital Service says skills shortage is one of the biggest risks to delivering more than £1.4bn of annual savings in Whitehall

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  UK government must do more to harness home-grown IT talent, says Digital Skills Taskforce

  UK Digital Skills Taskforce reveals recommendations for UK government ahead of general election

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Ten startups selected for London FinTech accelerator

  Startupbootcamp, a provider of three-month accelerator programs, announces its top 10 startups for its London based financial sector technology (fintech) accelerator

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  FDM Group receives SaBRE award for supporting ex-forces

  MOD SaBRE programme awards service provider FDM Group for its work employing UK reservists and ex-forces

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Ocado Technology readies primary school teachers with code initiative

  Ocado Technology launches code initiative as teachers reveal they’re underprepared for computing curriculum

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  C4DI’s 3Gbps broadband set to attract startups to Hull

  As London tech startups struggle with copper infrastructure, the co-founder of Hull-based tech hub C4DI says superfast broadband has been vital in getting his alternative project off the ground

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Interview: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK

  Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech, thinks there are other places besides London to start a digital business in the UK

• July 19, 2014 19 Jul'14

  Codecademy’s new UK office supports computing teachers for free

  Codecademy’s new UK head tells how teachers are using its free resources to prepare for computing curriculum

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  Digital skills vital to UK businesses but graduate skills are poor

  Senior executives claim digital skills are important to UK business but finding graduates with the skills is tough, according to MCA survey

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  The VMworld Europe User Awards 2014 open for entries

  The Best of VMworld Europe 2014 Users Awards will take place during VMworld Europe 2014, in Barcelona, Spain