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.
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.
A visiting analyst has warned that an over-reliance on a temporary minerals boom and a decline in the number of science and engineering graduates will erode Australia's ICT capacity and hinder its unprecedented stretch of economic growth.
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has announced that current CEO, Sheryle Moon, will be departing at the end of this week.
Australian vendors, recruiters and government agencies arrived in London over the weekend armed with a growing list of IT specialists from the old country needed Down Under, as part of the federal government-hosted Australia Needs Skills expo.
Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.
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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.
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.
After a brief upswing earlier this year, salaries have dropped and redundancies are on the rise.
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