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Date: 30 May 2012
Time: 9:00 AM
Our next event in the Computing IT Leaders Forum series, in association with Intel, will look over the horizon to see what's next for client computing
Case studies from large organisations across all sectors
... And rich media, and flexible working, and peaks in traffic ...
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Join us for this Computing web seminar, in which the Head of BI at the Co-operative Group Nick Colebourn will be explaining just how he reigned in the Group’s sprawling database estate and how significant savings were realised and data quality improved as a result.
Date: 31 May 2012
Time: 11:00 AM
Live June 13th 11:00am: Register now. During this web seminar we will be looking at the sorts of incidents that can bring data centres grinding to a halt and what can be done about them.
Date: 13 Jun 2012
Time: 11:00 am
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Given the escalating costs of education, especially post 18, the private sector cannot expect ready-to-employ IT workers to emerge without corresponding investment on their part.
Posted by: Steve Palmer, 15 Dec 2011
Wrong question?
The State's record on IT education is awful. The BCS campaign against it - it amounts to little more than teaching kids how to use common applications and search engines, in short to be users not engineers.
The state does this for reasons of grade inflation, and to show that it is closing the gender gap in technical skills.
Contrast that with the services provided by organisations like Learning Tree, for vendor certification or with the BCS, which offers a curriculum aimed at becoming a Chartered IT Professional.
The choice isn't state or private sector - this third way is much, much better, combining vendor specific training with broad awareness to give a rounded IT professionals in skills and knowledge.
Can the state do this? No. Can the private sector? No. Can the BCS? yes.
Posted by: Lord Gaga, 06 Dec 2011
IT future development
Goverment has the ability to see how the MOST of people will be benefitiated on the whole sense.
Private sector only watch what will fill better their pockets. Independent on what the people be or not benefitiated.
Posted by: Hector Luis Spinelli , 04 Dec 2011