Tagged: ICT Ireland & News
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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 -
The State’s largest investment in technology for schools News
14.09.2010 The €150m investment by the Irish Government in ICT equipment in schools will see every teacher equipped with a laptop and software and every classroom equipped with digital...Tags: Software, Smart Economy, Digital Schools, Microsoft, Paul Rellis, ICT Ireland, TIF, NCTE, Irish Software Association, Department of Education and Science, Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Jerome Morrissey, Graham Byrne, Promethean, Seamus McGuinness, Greg Tierney, Steljes, Paul Roche, Net Communications -
Govt to give 698 schools €20m to buy ICT equipment News
15.10.2010 The Government has revealed the next phase of its €150m Smart Schools = Smart Economy Strategy and has followed up on last year’s €23.3m investment in hardware with a further... -
Irish Government to spend €150 million on computers for Irish schools News
16.11.2009 The Government of Ireland revealed today that it plans to invest €150 million to kit out Irish schools with the latest computers, software and audio-visual equipment as part of... -
Ireland’s ICT industry welcomes appointment of Govt CIO News
15.10.2009 The IBEC group that represents the technology industry in Ireland said the appointment of a Government CIO is welcome but urged that the right individual is selected to take on...Categories: Government, CIO -
Piracy is costing global software industry US$53bn a year News
12.05.2009 Pirated software now makes up 41pc of all PC software installed on the planet, with losses to companies estimated at US$53bn, the Business Software Alliance said this morning.... -
Irish-based employers say maths skills don’t add up News
15.12.2008 Improving maths skills is critically important to the Irish economy, the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) warned today as it issued proposals to put Ireland at the...Categories: R&D