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Karl Parkinson - ArticlesKarl Parkinson, Chairman, Computeach - With over 40 years of experience in the IT Training Industry, Computeach provides innovative and truly blended learning solutions to a wide range of customers. For interviews, images or comments contact: Rosie Gallagher Marketing Communications Executive Computeach International Ltd Phone: 01384 245 308 Email: rosie.gallagher@computeach.co.uk Calls For Better IT TrainingThe Government is coming under increasing pressure from powerful lobbyists to provide better IT Courses for workers, enabling them to make the most of job opportunities during the recession. With a growth in the number of unemployed as a direct result of the deepening crisis, trade union Unite and IT... Why Getting the Right it Skills is Vital in a RecessionDespite an ongoing forecast of financial depression, rising unemployment and an economic crisis unprecedented since the 1930's, one area of business seems to be bucking the trend. IT is still recruiting, and it's not just general IT management and software maintenance that the marketplace is looking for.
The importance of the... Building up a Healthy Balance on Your Skills AccountAmongst all the reports of a credit crisis, a crisis in banking, a crisis in high street finances and other Defcom2-type warnings, there is yet another crisis lurking in the background that has greater long-term implications for the future of UK PLC - a skills crisis.
Lord Leitch's 2006 final report... What Can I Achieve With an IT Career?With a worldwide financial meltdown in progress, and major league players like Yahoo! announcing that they suffered a 64% downturn in profits in the last fiscal quarter of 2008, is this really the time to think about a career move into IT?
The marketplace - is IT really that important?
Well, it's... IT Exam Results - Boost for the IndustryThere is a skills shortage in many sectors of UK business, right across the board and yet there are certain industries that are experiencing a boom in the form of sustained and significant expansion, even in the face of the current economic difficulties. Industries such as plumbing, construction, oil and... IT Qualifications - What Can You Achieve?IT is now an integral part of almost every aspect of modern life. It is an astonishing fact that around 21 million people in the UK use IT at work each day, while the IT industry itself is responsible for the design, development, manufacture, selling, installation and maintenance of computer-based... Plugging the it Skills Gap: Should we be Encouraging More Skilled Foreign Workers?In a recent report by the Work Foundation, entitled Towards a global labour market? Globalisation and the knowledge market, the issue of using skilled foreign workers to help plug skills gap in UK industries was explored. The report concluded that there was an identified need to encourage more migrant workers,... What is the Scope of the it Skills Crisis and Are we Tackling it in the Right Way?Recent research suggests that British Business requires 150,000 new entrants into IT each year. Over the past few years the number of graduates in IT has halved to 20,000.
The figures speak for themselves. Even the most ardent sceptic cannot deny the skills deficit that we currently face. But why does...
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