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IT education and training

• 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

• 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

  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 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Ed Vaizey gets digital industries role in Cabinet reshuffle

  Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been promoted to the post of minister for digital industries in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Further education tutors lack time and support to utilise technology

  Further education tutors lack time and support to explore technology options finds City & Guilds survey

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Clear Returns wins Tech All Stars 2014 Best Young European Startup

  E-commerce software firm Clear Returns handed the Tech All Stars 2014 Best Young European Startup award by Neelie Kroes

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Rising Stars revealed with Most Influential Women in UK IT list

  Judges for Most Influential Women in UK IT hail five females as Rising Stars

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Interview with the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014: Wendy Hall

  Wendy Hall, who has been crowned the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014, says gender equality is not just a women’s issue

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Computer Weekly names the 25 most influential women in UK IT

  Find out the results of Computer Weekly's Women in Technology Awards, ranking the top 25 most influential women in UK IT 2014

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Queen Mary University to offer networking crash course for ICT students

  Queen Mary University of London to pilot a four-day network training and certification course

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Employers back student-led IT Counts campaign

  Employers pledge to support student-led ITMB project that promotes IT as a career

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  IT contractors confident they can plug the skills gap

  A survey by Parasol reveals IT contractors are in it for the long term, with confidence in career prospects

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  Half of UK public unaware of IT roles in British Army

  One in two people do not know IT and communication roles are available as careers in the army

• May 18, 2014 18 May'14

  Cisco CTO tells women "there is no such thing as work-life balance”

  Cisco’s chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, said there is “no such thing as a work-life balance”, but instead she integrates the two

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  Most Influential Women in UK IT 2014: Nominations open

  Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in UK IT 2014 awards are now open for nominations.

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

  The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Tech and engineering companies shine in Best for Vets Employers list

  Almost one-third of the companies on the 2014 Best for Vets Employers list are from the tech, telecoms, engineering and science sectors

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  IT and technology salaries rise 2.5% in 12 months

  IT and technology salaries rise from £49,027 to £50,276 in 12 months, according to Greythorn survey

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  Businesses lack skills for change management projects

  Change management projects are on the rise, but businesses lack employees with relevant tech and business skills

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  BT wants young people to teach adults how to use the internet

  BT has set up a project calling on young people to teach adults with no computing skills how to use the internet

• April 01, 2014 01 Apr'14

  Samsung opens Digital Classroom at Royal Albert Hall

  Samsung offers music, science and maths workshops for seven to 14 year olds at Royal Albert Hall

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Duke of York and Nominet launch iDEA Digital Enterprise Award scheme

  Digital Enterprise Award scheme launched at Buckingham Palace to encourage young people to start their own businesses

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Two Cambridge graduates teach kids to code with robots

  Robotiky looking for support to kick start project of teaching kids to code through the use of robots

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

  Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  CompTIA to launch Advancing Women in IT community in UK

  CompTIA to introduce US women in tech community model in UK after demand from UK females

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Samsung unveils digital classroom at Prince’s Trust Kennington

  Samsung provides technology and teacher training for digital classroom for underprivileged young people

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  FDM everywoman 2014 technology awards winners announced

  Twenty-five females commended for their passion for IT at 2014 FDM everywoman awards ceremony

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Accenture awards Cherie Blair Foundation for Women $1.7m for Rwanda's business owners

  Accenture awards Cherie Blair Foundation for Women $1.7m to train female business owners in Rwanda

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  IT contractors work from home to avoid office politics

  Survey finds IT contractors work from home for higher rates of pay and to avoid office politics

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Employers pledge over 20,000 apprenticeships roles for National Apprenticeship Week

  Employers pledge to create more than 20,000 apprenticeships as National Apprentice Week celebrates its seventh year

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Channel 4 CTO Bob Harris leaves to set up consultancy firm

  Channel 4 chief technology officer Bob Harris is leaving the broadcaster at the end of March to set up his own consultancy business

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  IT contractors see 13% pay increase

  IT contractors saw a year-on-year pay increase of up to 13%, according to Robert Walters Salary Survey 2014

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Craft Computer Club seeks funding to teach kids to code

  The Craft Computer Club, which teaches children computational thinking and coding with scissors, paper and glue, is seeking funding through Kickstarter

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Microsoft unveils primary school suite for new computing curriculum teachers

  Microsoft unveils suite of materials to ready primary school teachers for launch of new computing curriculum in September.

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Well-educated men on circa £39,040 are most fulfilled IT sector workers

  Randstad profiles UK IT professionals to investigate who is most fulfilled in their jobs and why

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Infosec Skills, BCS announce winners of Cyber Security Challenge

  Stuart Pringle, Simon Robinson and Robert Wyllie have won over £2,000 of training and a place in the semi-final of the current UK Cyber Security Challenge

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  CW500 Club in 2013

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  The state of agile software development in the UK

  Lately it is more surprising to hear that businesses are developing using a methodology other than agile, such is its widespread use

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler plans his next move for the $500m software company

  Alan Trefler discusses his plans for Pegasystems, the BPM and CRM specialist that has grown into a $500m a year company

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  M&S uses instore IT to train staff in multi-channel retail

  Marks & Spencer is using in-store iPads and kiosks to train staff to support its multichannel retail strategy

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Call for graduates to apply for John Lewis technology scheme

  Retailer John Lewis is encouraging university-leavers to apply for positions in its graduate development scheme

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Intellect relaunches as TechUK and targets 500,000 new UK IT jobs

  The UK’s technology trade association, formerly known as Intellect, has relaunched as TechUK, unveiling plans to create over 500,000 jobs by 2020

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Government calls for more data scientists in the UK

  The government is calling on industry and academia to help produce more data scientists in the UK

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Study finds cloud computing the most valued enterprise IT skill

  Cloud computing overtakes virtualisation, security, BI, database and project management as the most valued enterprise IT skill

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Computer science graduates struggle to find work despite IT skills shortage

  Despite an IT skills gap, the UK’s recent computer science graduates are the largest group of unemployed graduates

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  IT security industry still immature, says (ISC)2 board member

  The information security industry is still immature and failing to act or speak as one, says Dave Lewis, (ISC)2 board member

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Go ON UK aims to get north-east England online

  Go ON UK launches Go ON North East in bid to spread digital skills and get the region online

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Ex-hackers best qualified to improve cyber security say 70% of IT firms

  Over half of businesses are not taking IT security seriously enough and almost three quarters of IT professionals think ex-hackers could be the right people to help businesses improve cyber-security.