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• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  More than 70% of teachers still think students are better at using tech

  Teachers are still struggling to adapt to the new curriculum, and more than 70% believe their students are more technology-savvy than they are

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Information security maturing as a profession, says (ISC)2

  Today's information security professionals understand security is a blend of social, people and technology, and to be successful, they have to be capable across all of them, says (ISC)2's managing director for Europe

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Women in tech should take their career into their own hands, say everywoman speakers

  Women in technology should be taking more responsibility for advancing their career, advised speakers at the 2015 everywoman in Technology Leadership Academy

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Companies should do more to promote Stem studies says CA executive

  More companies should band together and collaborate to promote careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem), says CA executive Ritu Mahandru

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  Ex-government digital chief Mike Bracken brings GDS colleagues to Co-operative Group

  Mike Bracken, former government digital chief, has outlined his plans for digital transformation in his role at the Co-operative Group

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  German rail and transport group turns to virtual reality in war for talent

  Deutsche Bahn claims to be the first company in Germany to use virtual reality as a recruitment tool

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  How the Cabinet Office is using open data to tackle youth unemployment

  The Cabinet Office invited IT professionals and young people to a Job Hack event with the aim of using open government datasets to help more young people into work

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Security industry broken, says security researcher

  Information security professionals need to start really caring about security and ensuring the suppliers and businesses do the same, according to a security researcher

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Steve Watt, University of St Andrews

  CIOs at universities have very demanding clients in the form of tech-savvy students, but this is only part of the story, explains University of St Andrews CIO Steve Watts

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Avanade to help upskill one billion female charity workers by 2020

  Technology services provider Avanade launches a mentoring scheme to connect volunteers with women who want to know more about leadership, management and technology roles

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Turning data into action still tricky for Australia's data scientists

  Australian businesses need to change their attitudes towards data scientists if they are to unshackle the benefits of data

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  Tech City UK visa scheme helps startups get the right skills

  British government makes it easier for highly skilled IT professionals from outside the European Union to get visas to work for UK technology startups

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Staff have IT skills but there aren’t enough of us, say public sector workers

  Public sector IT leaders say the people they have are appropriately skilled, but there is not enough staff in public sector organisations to get things done

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  How easyJet uses digital to drive competitive advantage

  The CIO and head of digital at easyJet tell Computer Weekly price is not the only way to gain competitive advantage in the airline industry

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Government sets up £4m fund to spur video games industry

  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport announces grants of up to £25,000 from the Video Games Prototype fund to help new UK games developers get off the ground

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Another senior GDS leader bites the dust

  Deputy chief technology officer Magnus Falk is the latest senior leader to leave GDS after chief Mike Bracken announced his departure

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  UK digital economy needs 2.3 million digital workers by 2020

  The UK will need the skills of 2.3 million digital workers by 2020 if it hopes to power the promised digital economy, according to research from O2

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Travelex rewrites its digital strategy

  Travelex’s digital transformation is based on short-term wins, long-term goals and disruption, according to its chief digital officer, Sean Cornwell

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Apprenticeships could stop potential employees falling through the net, says Bellrock

  The chief technology officer of facilities management company Bellrock explains why apprenticeships should be used to stop potential IT workers moving to other industries

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  National Coding Week 2015 – older people can learn programming skills too

  National Coding Week took place from 21 to 25 September 2015 with a programme of activities helping adults in the UK master technical skills

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Mikko Vastela, LähiTapiola

  Mikko Vastela, the CIO of newly formed Nordic insurance company LähiTapiola, tells Computer Weekly about the importance of informing employees and stakeholders what IT is doing

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  Worldwide #peacehack hackathons use technology to promote peace

  A number of simultaneous hackathons have been held across the globe to promote the use of technology to encourage peace

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  JLab’s 2015 startups explain how the accelerator has helped them

  Finalists of the John Lewis JLab accelerator explain what experience they have gained on the programme

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Smart peep-hole maker Peeple announced as 2015 Jlab winner

  John Lewis accelerator JLab announces Peeple, a smart peep-hole producer, as its 2015 winner

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Women in “a position of power” in IT industry, says BBC panel

  Women looking to make the move to the IT industry have the upper hand, according to a panel discussion at the BBC

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Women an untapped cyber security resource, report reveals

  Women in information security are quickly converging on men in terms of academic focus, computer science and engineering, and have a higher concentration of advanced degrees, a report shows

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  IBM hails apprenticeship degrees as step towards injecting talent into businesses

  Large firms such as IBM, John Lewis and Lloyds Banking Group gathered to discuss the benefits of young IT talent gaining degrees on the job

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Cyber Security Challenge UK launches 24/7 games hub

  Every area in the newly-launched Cyphinx virtual skyscraper will contain a new opportunity to test a different cyber skill, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Monique Shivanandan, Aviva

  Aviva’s CIO, Monique Shivanandan, talks agile working, digital disruption and changing the culture of a complex 300-year-old company

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Antti Koskelin at Finland’s Kone

  Antti Koskelin joined Kone with the immediate task of finishing off a major IT infrastructure project that had already started, but has looked forward ever since

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Nominet Trust Tech for Good list – why awareness of good causes is important

  Nominations for the Nominet Trust Tech for Good closes at the end of September 2015 – and here's how highlighting good technology deeds helps the industry

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  IT industry calls for the government to fill Stem skills gap

  The government has invested in Stem initiatives but the IT industry still thinks it could be doing more to fill the skills gap

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Eileen Burbidge appointed Tech City UK chair

  Tech City UK is building a new team to head up the UK’s digital economy agenda, and has appointed Eileen Burbidge as chair

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Talent shortage drives IT salary rise in Singapore

  IT salaries are rising fast in Singapore, fuelled by shortages in key areas and Singapore's image as a gateway to Asia for western businesses

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Starbucks European IT director moves to education publisher Pearson

  Robert Teagle quits the coffee company after eight years as European IT chief

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  IT industry seeks permanent staff as vacancies grow

  KPMG finds demand for IT workers has grown since 2014, leaving more open vacancies for positions

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Department store retailer House of Fraser appoints CIO

  British department store brand House of Fraser announces appointment of Julian Burnett as chief information officer

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Employees crave digital skills, but organisations lack budget to teach them

  VMware survey on digital skills finds a large percentage of employees are keen to learn, but organisations are holding them back

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  More than half of 12-year-old girls say Stem subjects are too hard

  Accenture finds more than half of 12-year-old girls in the UK and Ireland think science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects are too hard

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Jobs with low risk of automation growing faster than jobs being replaced

  Jobs that cannot be automated have increased since 2001, providing the UK economy with a significant financial boost

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Rise in IT security demand triggers surge in cyber security jobs

  Cyber security roles account for 14% of UK-based IT jobs as organisations' demand for security provision rises

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Girls in Tech launches mentoring programme for women in IT

  Network for women, Girls in Tech, has launched a mentoring programme to help selected women to learn entrepreneurial skills

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Big Lottery Fund gives £2m to digital champion project

  Non-profit organisation The Big Lottery Fund gives £2m to a project creating digital champions to help people without digital skills use the internet

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  BBC announces digital content season as part of Make it Digital initiative

  Six months on from the launch of its Make it Digital initiative to help children embrace technology, the BBC announces digital content season across its media channels

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  BT launches technology scholarships and primary schools IT skills programme

  BT acts to close the skills gap in sponsoring a higher education technology scheme and plans to teach digital skills to primary school children

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  One-third of schools admit to making no investment in coding training for teachers

  The current computing curriculum has been in place for a year, but the support given to teachers delivering these classes varies across the UK

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  The Data School: Former Facebook employee launches training programme for future data analysts

  After working at Facebook as a data analyst, Andy Kriebel explains why he moved to the UK and launched a training programme for data scientists

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  School kids would rather study coding than a foreign language, says Ocado

  A year since computer science was added to the school curriculum Ocado discovers kids would rather learn to code than to speak another language

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Islington and Camden Councils set out shared IT services plans

  London councils want to tackle the government's austerity measures through adopting shared IT services model by April 2016

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  IT firm aims to close skills gap with technology training academy

  Microsoft-endorsed firm Azzure IT has launched an IT skills academy to teach development, customer support and consultancy in a bid to close the skills gap