With hardware commitments for schools in place, Minister for Education Julia Gillard has now announced funding to train teachers up on how to use their new kit.
Telstra has not trained a single apprentice under a federal government subsidy scheme, the Federal Opposition said yesterday, but the telco contends it has a robust training program.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed this week that the onus for funding federal Labor's digital education revolution will fall more heavily on the states than first expected, prompting raised eyebrows from some and the ire of the Opposition.
The government yesterday announced plans to bolster Australia's skilled migration program by providing an additional 6,000 places -- potentially a boon for the skills-starved tech industry -- but some believe the scheme doesn't go far enough.
Labor party leader Kevin Rudd has today promised a AU$1 billion fund to give every senior secondary school student in years 9 to 12 access to a computer at school.
I should have known better, but I was still a bit suprised to find absolutely zilch for broadband in the latest Howard-Costello Budget.
The Labor party is calling on IT Minister Daryl Williams to stand down immediately after he announced plans to quit politics at the next election. Should he accede? Who would be an ideal replacement?
A couple of years ago, the clock struck midnight on the IT industry and computer geeks, who had been hailed as heroes, turned back into being, well, just geeks again.
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