Categorised as: Upskilling & News
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Cork’s European tech cluster rolls out adopt-a-school initiative News
23.05.2012 The it@cork European tech cluster has introduced a new adopt-a-school scheme that will see household tech names like EMC, IBM, Trend Micro, Quest and McAfee select schools and... -
Monty Munford and James Whelton to keynote at dot conf 2012 News
21.05.2012 Content strategy guru Monty Munford will take the stage at this year’s dot conf at the National College of Ireland in Dublin alongside CoderDojo co-founder James Whelton.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Social Media, Marketing, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
New ISA post-grad software degrees are first of their kind globally News
03.05.2012 The Irish Software Association (ISA) Skillnet last night unveiled two new post-graduate level qualifications in the area of product management which are understood to be the...Categories: Upskilling, Training, R&D, Project Management, Intellectual Property, Enterprise, Education -
Most European employers stop spending on skills, training - survey News
27.04.2012 Eighty-six per cent of European employers have cut or frozen spending on skills and training in the last 12 months despite being concerned about skills shortages, a new survey... -
Thomas International takes equity stake in Irish careers website News
10.04.2012 UK-headquartered Thomas International, a global provider of psychometric assessment and team profiling software and services, has taken a significant equity stake in... -
Weekend news roundup: Facebook chooses Nasdaq, Ireland's skills crisis News
10.04.2012 In a digest of some of the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, we note that spammers have shifted their attention from post and email to smartphones, the UK ads watchdog is...Categories: Wireless Communications, Upskilling, Social Media, Security, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Financial, Education, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
#DIF12 – Tackling the skills gap: we need programmers who start at 14 News
23.03.2012 The most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley learned how to code from the age of 14, RTÉ Dragons' Den's Sean O’Sullivan told today’s Digital Ireland Forum in Dublin. BT... -
Irish Army to equip members with basic computer skills News
21.03.2012 Ireland’s Defence Forces have launched an ECDL e-learning programme to ensure that members at home and abroad are equipped with basic computer skills. -
Expert Group highlights job market opportunities News
28.02.2012 The Irish job market has a demand for people with work experience, third-level qualifications and/or foreign-language skills, the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs reveals in... -
#TrendingInTech weekly roundup News
26.02.2012 A roundup of the top trending news stories this week from SiliconrepublicCategories: Upskilling, Social Media, Security, Private Irish Business, Phones, Games/Entertainment, Education, Digital Business, Deals Done, CIO, Consumer Tech -
A day at the dojo – inside the CoderDojo revolution (video) News
22.02.2012 Siliconrepublic.com editor John Kennedy spent a Saturday afternoon at a CoderDojo in Dublin. This remarkable movement, just months old, has led to hundreds of kids writing...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, Education, Economy, Apps -
84pc of IT employers would hire graduates from conversion courses News
23.02.2012 More than half (52pc) of employers in Ireland are struggling to hire IT staff and 84pc say they would be open to hiring a person with a non-IT background who has completed a... -
Boosting Irish tech talent is necessary for the IT industry’s growth News
09.02.2012 One of the biggest challenges in maintaining the Irish IT industry's growth is to make sure that we have the talent to support it. -
Twitter plans to get busy with Irish developer community News
06.02.2012 Twitter is to host its first Tea Time event in Dublin later this month, in what could be a great opportunity for local developers and start-ups to create products for the... -
CIT launches graduate conversion programmes News
02.02.2012 Unemployed NQF level 8 graduates from non-computing disciplines who are interesting in making a switch to cloud computing can now gain an academic qualification for free in the...Categories: Careers and Employment, Education, Graduate, Jobs, Mobility, Software Development, Upskilling -
Ireland is only average, not a leader, in the digital economy News
09.11.2011 If Ireland wants to better its economy and its society and be seen as a digital leader, it needs to up its game in terms of broadband, e-inclusion and skills. A Boston...Categories: Upskilling, Training, R&D, Infrastructure Management, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
Govt to create a new digital strategy for Ireland News
10.11.2011 The Irish Government is to draw up a new Knowledge Society framework to ensure greater digital engagement among businesses and citizens, Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte... -
NCI offers free ICT courses to unemployed News
01.02.2012 National College of Ireland is urging job seekers to consider retraining to close the skills gap in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, with the... -
Computer science for schools – education planners just don’t get IT News
11.01.2012 This morning it emerged that the UK’s current ICT programme of study in schools is to be scrapped and replaced by a computer science curriculum as the UK quite rightly attempts... -
NUI Galway’s ‘Click & Connect’ computer training seeks to close digital divide News
10.01.2012 Anyone who believes they have been ‘digitally excluded’ now have a chance to brush up on their skills, courtesy of a new computer training initiative from NUI Galway, Limerick...