05 Jan 2005
More than four our of five employers believe it is important to develop their IT staff's skills, research shows.
But less than one in ten run a professional development scheme, according to a survey of 183 organisations conducted by the British Computer Society (BCS) and skills technology provider InfoBasis.
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While 82 per cent of respondents said their organisation considers IT skills development to be important, only 40 per cent said it was as important to have a professional development scheme. And only nine per cent actually have one.
Nearly 20 per cent of respondents said their organisation had spent £10,000 or above on IT training in the last year. And the same amount said they had spent nothing at all.
Just over half of organisations represented in the survey have up to 250 employees and 42 per cent have more than that.
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