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  • Gershon fallout: Contractor cuts realistic?

    Local ICT companies have raised concerns around Sir Peter Gershon's recommendation, released last week, that federal government agencies should cut IT contractor levels by 50 per cent over the next two years.

  • AU$15 million plan to plug public service ICT gaps

    The Australian public service is striking back at the skills crisis by training its own IT workers in a new AU$15 million, four-year apprenticeship program.

  • ICT skills foundering on poor data and disinterest

    Lingering doubts about information and communications technology (ICT) careers, inadequate ICT teaching, an ineffective industry reporting structure and poor collaboration between public and private sectors have all been blamed for the poor state of Australia's ICT skills tracking in a report released yesterday.

  • Europe hunts for female techies

    The tech and telecoms industry needs to get more women on board or risk confronting a shortfall of 300,000 IT workers in 2010, according to the European Commission.

  • Why women just don't want IT

    IT is perceived as nerdy, blokey and boring, but the problem in attracting more women to the ICT industry may not lie with the fairer sex per se.

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Blogs (8)

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Closing the skills gap

    Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    What's in a name?

    Are ICT, IT&T and plain old IT interchangeable? Or is it time for a new name?

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Services the secret to our future

    Today, we exist in an economy where the services sector is the economy.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Coming to you fast and furious from the FITT lunch

    The more I think about the issues surrounding the under-representation of women in IT, the further I get from finding a solution. Overanalysis is a real drag. And that's why this year I'm going to be blogging direct from the FITT lunch.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Why IT geeks are chic

    These days, you're just as likely to see high-technology surfboard designers wearing board shorts to work as Star Trek T-shirts.

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Features and Case Studies (14)

  • Food authority cooks up top CIO role

    One of the government's regulatory agencies is on the hunt to fill a newly-created head of IT position, bucking the trend for technology outsourcing in public services.

  • UK tech staff face bleak outlook

    After a brief upswing earlier this year, salaries have dropped and redundancies are on the rise.

  • Telecomms jobs on the rise: Badja

    A new index measuring jobs in the telecommunications sector brings good news for telco staff but bad news for IT jobseekers in general, according to Robert Brand, who compiles the Badja ICT Telco Jobs index.

  • Policies of prevention

    Both internal and external security threats must be fought with efficient company policies as much as with the latest technologies.

  • Is Brown Qld Health's white knight?

    Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.

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