Tagged: Skills & News
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Springboard offers 6,000 new education opportunities News
22.05.2012 The Irish Government has announced 6,000 new part-time higher education places for job seekers via the Springboard programme, focused on areas with skills shortages.Tags: Pharmaceutical, Green Economy, Medical Devices, ICT, Government, Jobs, Skills, Education, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, IDA, -
WebElevate addresses skills shortage with addition to programme News
21.05.2012 With more than 2,500 jobs unfilled in the ICT and gaming sectors, the Digital Skills Academy’s latest programme addresses the skills shortage with a dedicated digital games stream.Tags: Video, Software Development, E-commerce, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Skills, Education, Jobs, Games Industry, Gaming, -
The five minute CIO: Dominick Griffin News
04.05.2012 Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where Ireland’s IT leaders share their thoughts on technology trends and strategy. This week,...Categories: Software, Leadership & Management, IT Management, Education, CIO, Careers and Employment -
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... -
Engineers shortage affecting growth plans – Dromone Engineering News
27.04.2012 A shortage of skilled engineers in Ireland with professional experience is having an impact on the expansion needs of Irish firm Dromone Engineering, said the company’s managing... -
AIT offering course in social media marketing News
23.04.2012 Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) has created a two-year Higher Certificate in Business and Social Media Marketing to teach students how to use sites such as Facebook,... -
Microsoft/Amarach cloud index claims small firms growing via cloud News
23.04.2012 Smaller companies in the Irish economy are attributing job creation directly to the adoption of cloud computing and 35pc of firms have implemented cloud, according to the...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, IT Organisation, IT Management, Hardware, Economy, Digital Business, Data Centre, CIO -
ISDN opening venue for software developer meetups - TCube News
17.04.2012 The Irish Software Developers’ Network (ISDN) is opening TCube, a dedicated meeting place for groups of up to 50 software professionals. It will also offer three months of free... -
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 -
Ireland below EU average in basic computer skills - study News
26.03.2012 People in Ireland aged 16-74 rank lower than the EU average for a number of basic computer skills, such as moving a file on a computer and creating a presentation on a PC, a new... -
#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... -
New software master's degree launched for unemployed News
22.03.2012 The ICT Ireland Skillnet, Dublin Institute of Technology and Ericsson have launched a new intensive master's degree programme in applied software technology aimed at students... -
The five minute CIO: Phillip Fischer News
23.03.2012 Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where Ireland’s IT leaders share their thoughts on technology trends and strategy. This week,... -
Lack of experienced Irish graduates to fill IT jobs, recruitment firm says News
22.03.2012 While the IT industry is thriving in spite of the recession, a lack of experienced Irish graduates has forced recruitment company Software Placements to look to Europe to fill... -
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. -
Analytics demand drives big data growth, IDC forecasts News
13.03.2012 The technology and service market around the big data trend is expected to grow at seven times the rate of the overall ICT market, according to a forecast from market watcher IDC. -
The five minute CIO: John Shaw News
09.03.2012 Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where we learn the thoughts of Ireland’s IT leaders on tech trends and strategy. John Shaw is... -
A realistic message News
06.03.2012 ITLG chairman and former Intel CEO Craig Barrett says the 21st century is going to be more competitive than the previous century, with every country battling for jobs, education... -
78pc of engineers confident about company prospects - survey News
02.03.2012 Seventy-eight per cent of engineers are confident about their organisation’s prospects this year, a survey from Engineers Ireland as part of Engineers Week 2012 suggests. -
Raspberry Pi offers stg£22 credit-card size PC for budding programmers News
29.02.2012 The Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized Linux-based computer priced at stg£22 aiming to get people into coding, has launched today. Demand for the computer has caused websites...