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October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14
Businesses guide students to TeenTech awards at the Palace

Companies including JVC and Google have mentored a number of schoolchildren who have won TeenTech awards
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
L’Oreal aligns technology with the business to work faster

L’Oreal’s digital technology is working with the business and marketing departments to become innovative and agile
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 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
October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: US fashion retailer Tilly’s aligns IT with marketing

US retailer Tilly’s has aligned its e-commerce and marketing teams to focus on customer experience

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 30, 2014 30 Sep'14
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis
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
Government CTO Liam Maxwell commits to GDS until 2018

Whitehall chief technology officer Liam Maxwell has committed to the Government Digital Service beyond the election
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 26, 2014 26 Sep'14
CIOs miss out on funding for digital innovation, claims research

IT budgets are rising but less than 10% is allocated to supporting innovation, a survey of 900 CIOs finds
September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14
Why you should drop staff who are not cloud savvy

CIOs may need to lose staff who are not prepared to move to new ways of working brought on by cloud computing
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
Conventional datacentre skills and tools to limit business growth

IT skills including capacity planning and performance management are no longer sufficient for business growth
September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14
Anglian Water launches social media platform to drive innovation

Anglian Water hopes to engage employees by crowdsourcing their ideas through the cloud to improve the business
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
PGI open doors to cyber security academy

PGI set to train security professionals how to identify and offest security threats
September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14
UKtech50 2014 - help us choose the 50 most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly is launching the fifth annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK IT - tell us your nominations
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
Interview: Wood Mackenzie CTO John Linwood on life after the BBC

John Linwood, former chief technology officer at the BBC, talks about winning a high-profile employment tribunal and his new job at Wood Mackenzie
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 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
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 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 26, 2014 26 Aug'14
Datacentre operator Telecity’s CEO Michael Tobin resigns

Telecity’s CEO Michael Tobin will step down from the helm at the FTSE 250 datacentre provider on 31 October, after 10 years in the role
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 19, 2014 19 Aug'14
Half of UK IT unfamiliar with software-defined datacentres, shows study

Software-defined datacentres may be touted as the next big thing in enterprise IT, but 50% of IT pros are unclear of its benefits, study shows
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
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 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Joanna Shields becomes a peer

Former Tech City CEO and the prime minister’s adviser on the digital economy, Joanna Shields, has been awarded a life peerage
August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14
Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?
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
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
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 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
Service providers must rethink how they approach digital transformation

Service providers are ill-equipped to support the growing demand from businesses for digital transformation projects.
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
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
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
Lessons from Apollo 11: Is IT ready to go mission-critical?

IT has changed radically since 1969 when Nasa's computers helped Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins fly Apollo 11 to the moon
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