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• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  Vodafone cuts 121 staff with Burton site closure

  A review of Vodafone sites following its 2012 acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide will see its Vodafone Business Services centre in Burton-on-Trent shut down, with 121 jobs at risk

• 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 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Talent shortage is threatening growth of London’s technology sector

  A shortage of talent and immigration legislation has been blamed for hampering technology growth in London

• 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 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  DWP should scrap existing Universal Credit IT, say MPs

  Department for Work and Pensions should consider scrapping its existing IT for Universal Credit and focus solely on the new digital solution, say MPs

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  RBS IT head Mike Errington retires

  Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) IT head Mike "Offshore Errington" is to retire after months of speculation during the bank's cost-cutting operation

• 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

• 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 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO

  Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as CEO almost six months after former incumbent Steve Ballmer announced his retirement

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  BBC CTO John Linwood sacked over failed £100m digital project

  Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has been sacked over the broadcaster’s failed £100m Digital Media Initiative

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

  Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce

• 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 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  The IT risks facing Universal Credit

  Despite Iain Duncan Smith's robust defence of his flagship welfare reform policy, Universal Credit, evidence to the contrary continues to mount

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Interactive graphic: 2014 European IT priorities and forecast

  Find out the IT priorities and forecasts of European businesses for 2014 with our exclusive reader survey results

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  HSBC boss to take over BT Openreach

  BT confirms Joe Garner will take over as the CEO of its Openreach division when Liv Garfield steps down in February

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  DWP already struggling to recruit digital skills for Universal Credit IT development

  DWP is already struggling to recruit IT staff with the digital skills it needs – not just for Universal Credit but also other IT projects

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Universal Credit faces IT skills shortage risk after GDS withdrawal

  The withdrawal of the Government Digital Service (GDS) from work on Universal Credit is one of the major risks for the troubled project over the next 12 months

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Computer Weekly founding editor, Chris Hipwell, dies after short illness

  Chris Hipwell, the founding editor of Computer Weekly, the world’s first IT magazine, has died after a short illness

• 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 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Should you become an interim CIO?

  With the recovery of the UK economy still underway, one of the trends in IT management for 2014 is the continued demand for interim CIOs

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Government seeks deputy CTO

  The government is seeking a deputy chief technology officer who will report to CTO Liam Maxwell

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  IT budgets to rise by 3% in 2014 as companies step up spending on mobile

  IT spending will increase by 3% in 2014, up from 1.8% last year. But shadow IT spending will add another 40% to technology budgets

• 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 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

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  BDUK seeks new CEO

  The top job within the division with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport charged with rolling out broadband across the UK is up for grabs

• 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 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT

• 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 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Kevin Cunnington appointed as digital chief at DWP

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced Kevin Cunnington as director general for digital transformation

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Government pledges extra £100m to Enterprise Zones

  Communities secretary Eric Pickles confirms the additional funding to help complete infrastructure projects around the new business hubs

• 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.

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Former British Army Captain launches recruitment firm for ex-Royal Signals

  Ex-Royal Signalman founds Jobs in ICT after experiencing frustration with recruitment firms

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  C-level executives cry out for data scientists

  Board level executives are putting pressure on their IT organisations to find data scientists, according to Teradata research

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Mark Hall may quit Whitehall after being snubbed for HMRC CIO role

  Mark Hall, the acting CIO at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has not been given the job full-time and may quit government