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Fast learners

We're in the midst of a revolution that is changing the way we teach and learn, with wikis, new approaches to e-learning, education mash ups, and virtual worlds the new order.
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If there was ever a good time to get into ICT, it's now.
04/01/2008 03:48:51
ICT accounts for nearly 5 per cent of Australia's gross domestic product, but while it is irrevocably linked with every aspect of the creation of the other 95 per cent, it can wither simply for lack of human support. It's a people business that lacks people; university enrolments for ICT courses dropped 20 per cent between 2002 and 2005 and the lack is being felt now. And are the graduates universities produce armed with the skills they - and we - need? The skills vacancy index has risen 20 per cent over 2007, and while ICT isn't alone in feeling the skills lack, the other industries in the same boat need ICT to survive anyway. Trouble is, no one really knows the size of the problem so cannot scope a solution to it. More...

Equity and equality: finding the gender balance
12/05/2007 15:31:09
The percentage of women in the ICT workforce is low and dropping. More...

E-commerce rings up sales
15/12/2006 14:53:51
New technologies and better retail processes are drawing shoppers to the Internet's door More...

IT powers Asia's financial dominance
15/12/2006 14:21:57
Technology has a double edge - one sharply opportunity-based, and the other a serrated edge of threat. Nowhere is this clearer than in the financial sector More...

ACS news
18/10/2006 22:23:07
Australian Computer Society initiatives, research and events More...

Adapting higher education to Generation Y
18/10/2006 21:22:17
ICT students are demanding greater flexibility in how they learn More...

ACS News
12/04/2006 12:35:24
Australian Computer Society initiatives, research and events More...

Security: the enemy within wreaks new havoc
18/08/2005 14:06:54
Internal information security attacks are outgrowing external attacks at the world's largest financial institutions More...

Into the unemployment abyss
21/08/2004 16:02:24
The warmth of colleague support eases the sudden chill of job loss More...

IT News Review - Week ending November 10, 2000
10/11/2000 17:11:16
New President to Face Lots of IT Homework...'Mafiaboy' to Plead Guilty to Hacking...Update: CSC Says Outsourcing Program Is Here to Stay...Billions Wasted on Security: Forrester...No Pay TV But Broadband On The Way For Canberra...Federal Government Reviews Outsourcing Plans...NZ Ministry Wants to Tap All Calls...SecurePay Launches Online Antifraud Service...Update: Big Four Banks Merge Online...Banks Plan Joint Online Treasury Trade...Qld TAFE Scores Solution for Training Centre...Home Workers Imperil Systems More...

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