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IT education and training

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  Teachers share concerns and ideas for ICT in 2014 curriculum

  IT professionals and education bodies used Westminster Education forum to air concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the curriculum two years before it is replaced by a computer science alternative

• May 31, 2012 31 May'12

  UK businesses prefer training to hiring to plug IT skills gap

  An IT skills shortage in the UK is affecting businesses, driving 70% of organisations to invest in training while 40% plan to hire skills

• April 03, 2012 03 Apr'12

  STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM

  The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed a £30m deal with IBM to develop high performance computing (HPC)

• April 02, 2012 02 Apr'12

  Eight UK universities awarded excellence in cyber security research status

  The first eight UK universities have been awarded 'Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research' status

• March 21, 2012 21 Mar'12

  Half of education institutions victims of mobile IT theft

  According to research, 45% of UK education establishments claim to have had mobile IT equipment stolen during the last three years.

• February 28, 2012 28 Feb'12

  Mobile technology training in demand

  A massive 81% of IT professionals are planning to bolster their skills in mobile computing as 84% see this as an area of growth in the market.

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IT services providers sign up to apprentice scheme

  UK IT service providers will take on more IT apprentices to help bridge the gap between education and the workplace as part of a government-backed scheme

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  ICT curriculum for GCSE is scrapped

  The government is to scrap the teaching of GCSE ICT in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming subjects.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  City University London unveils scholarship for information leadership course

  City University London has launched its IBM Enterprise Computing scholarship to award a place on its Masters of Information Leadership (MIL) course.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Open University expands computer-aided teaching portal for educators worlwide

  The Open University has completed the second stage of a £2.5m Department of Education funded initiative to deliver computer-aided teaching to the classroom.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Survey finds UK IT jobs concentrated in London and south-east England

  With software houses and the financial services sector creating by far the most permanent IT jobs, career opportunities are being condensed into south-east England.

• March 10, 2011 10 Mar'11

  IBM targets Oracle customers with free big data training

  IBM plans to train 10,000 Oracle database professionals in IBM software analytics and information management throughout 2011 via free bootcamp training sessions.

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  FDM seek 1000 graduates for training scheme

  IT services provider FDM is recruiting 1000 graduates for its training scheme in 2011.