Tagged: ICT Ireland
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Education Minister announces 760 ICT graduate skills conversion places News
01.02.2013 Some 760 new college places in ICT graduate skills conversion courses have been announced by Ireland’s Education Minister Ruairí Quinn, TD. -
Skillnets opens new €500k training fund for Ireland’s private sector News
28.01.2013 Ireland's State-funded training and upskilling body Skillnets is launching a new €500,000 training fund specifically aimed at companies in the private sector. Groups of... -
€1m IBEC and Ericsson conversion programme guarantees jobs for 40 graduates News
29.11.2012 Forty graduates have been guaranteed jobs for two years at Ericsson after completing a conversion course that gave them skills to be relevant in the tech sector. Around 100 more...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Engineering, Education, Economy, Digital Business -
STEM Careers Week will highlight career opportunities in med-tech sector News
17.09.2012 Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, TD, today launched STEM Careers Week, the latest campaign from the Smart Futures initiative to encourage secondary school... -
It adds up to jobs potential – 35pc surge in Leaving Cert students taking higher-level maths News
15.08.2012 There was a 35pc surge in the number of students taking higher-level maths in Ireland's Leaving Cert this year, resulting in many of them receiving 25 extra CAO bonus points....Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Engineering, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business, Computers -
Tech job announcements this year reach 4,000 News
28.05.2012 On the back of an encouraging four job announcements this morning, ICT Ireland says tech job announcements for 2012 are already equal to the total for 2011. -
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... -
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... -
ICT action plan aims to boost tech workforce in Ireland News
30.01.2012 A major joint industry and Irish Government action plan has been launched today to support the technology sector, which will see the introduction of full-time conversion courses...Tags: Skills February, ICT, Jobs, Regina Moran, Skills, ISA, ICT Ireland, IT Industry, IT, Courses, Ireland -
Tech firms to give CAO advice through Smart Futures online careers fair News
23.01.2012 Representatives from tech companies such as Microsoft and Cisco will showcase ICT career opportunities to students on the Smart Futures online careers fair which runs 23-26... -
National campaign launched to encourage students to pursue digital careers News
15.12.2011 A national online campaign has been launched, with the backing of major IT companies, to encourage second-level students to pursue careers in the burgeoning digital media space.Tags: Xbox 360, Xbox, Technology Careers, Video, Podcasting, Gaming, Apps, ICT Ireland, Second Level, -
New effort to get transition year students placed in IT News
27.09.2011 ICT Ireland has unveiled a new transition year work placement programme that will place at least 100 transition year students in technology companies with a view to impressing... -
CAO ‘change of mind’ numbers boost tech sector News
16.08.2011 More than 42,000 extra engineering, technology and science courses were added to students' CAO selections at Level 8 and Level 6/7 during the period between March this year and... -
Convert the grads to fill jobs News
14.07.2011 With 2,500 vacancies in the tech industry in Ireland, unemployed graduates should be able to convert and get jobs, ICT Ireland chair Regina Moran says.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Jobs, Graduate, Education, Economy, Development, Careers and Employment -
ICT industry creates Masters programme to close skills gap News
13.06.2011 ICT Ireland has launched a fully funded Masters in applied software technology from Dublin Institute of Technology which includes a guaranteed job in Ireland's high-tech sector... -
Educators express ‘raging impatience’ to begin reform News
02.06.2011 How many people really understood the shockwaves that were felt through the teaching profession in Ireland when the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)...Tags: Fujitsu , ICT Ireland, computing, Regina Moran, Jerome Morrissey, Eamonn Sinnott, Intel, Enda Kenny, Ireland, Languages, Maths, PISA, -
75pc of Irish ICT employers have job vacancies News
26.05.2011 Three-quarters of Irish ICT employers say they have vacancies in their companies. More than 50pc of these have more than 20 jobs available in their firms, the chair of ICT...Categories: Software & Web Development, Science, R&D, Jobs, Hardware, Education, Economy, Digital 21 -
Keep 12.5pc rate and roll out digital schools, ICT sector says News
15.02.2011 The retention of the 12.5pc corporate tax rate and the continued roll out of the ICT in the classroom programme Smart Schools = Smart Economy have been called for by the ICT...Categories: Tax, Software & Web Development, Networking & Telecoms, Jobs, Investments, Internet, Education, Careers and Employment -
Martina Harford, chief executive, The Educational Company of Ireland News
03.02.2011 Back in the early 2000s when there was a large amount of money also put into ICT in education, the momentum was lost and unfortunately we’re playing catch-up now. -
Alarm at Ireland's falling maths performance in PISA study News
07.12.2010 PISA, the OECD group responsible for measuring maths and literacy performance by students worldwide, has found Ireland significantly below the OECD average for maths, causing...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Science, Investments, Government, Education, Careers and Employment