17.07.2012 Speaking at Dundalk Institute of Technology yesterday, PayPal’s vice-president of global operations Louise Phelan criticised the lack of language skills in Ireland and revealed that 500 jobs in the company’s Dundalk Operations Centre are being recruited elsewhere.
16.07.2012 The Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB) has announced that 350 places on higher education courses will be provided to unemployed individuals via the Springboard initiative.
12.07.2012 Ireland’s development agency IDA Ireland revealed this morning that more than 5,000 new jobs were created in the first six months of 2012 in the face of mounting global competition. Falling office rents, energy prices and labour costs are playing a key role.
10.07.2012 Irishman Kieran O’Hea has been appointed the new chief digital officer of Brisbane as part of the Australian city’s Economic Development Plan 2012 to 2031. Brisbane is the second city in the world to appoint a chief digital officer after New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg appointed Rachel Sterne to make the Big Apple America’s leading digital city.
10.07.2012 Ireland has the potential to create 20,000 extra jobs in the manufacturing sector within six months – that’s according to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton, TD. Bruton is on to something here. In the tech world, while some say ‘software is eating the world’ (and it is), people still get excited by shiny physical objects.
02.07.2012 The Digital Marketing Institute has introduced a masters in digital marketing, a two-year programme aimed at marketing professionals and students.
29.06.2012 In a fitting way to mark the first anniversary of the founding in Ireland of a revolutionary and international movement aimed at fostering crucial coding skills in kids as young as seven, the Government of Ireland will host a special CoderDojo at Leinster House on 18 July.
22.06.2012 The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has launched a skills report from Forfás and the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) that highlights a critical need to improve sales skills and foreign languages to meet employers’ needs in exporting companies.
21.06.2012 European Tech Cluster, an initiative spearheaded by it@cork, plans to spearhead a series of initiatives and ideas aimed at creating jobs and rebalancing Ireland’s economy.
18.06.2012 Ireland is above average for mobile broadband, according to the European Commission, but growth in fixed-broadband penetration is slowing down and the country is below the European average. Across Europe, there are concerns about IT skills and the realisation that e-commerce and R&D growth has stalled.
