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Whose fault is the IT skills gap? The employer’s view.

That we face a major IT skills gap, both here in the UK and around the world, is a given.  That the IT skills gap is hampering business, organisational – and even national – performance and growth is certain.  The key to enabling and accelerating that growth is to ensure employers have access to a[…]

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Whose fault is the IT skills gap? The IT professional’s view

If you work in the IT sector or education – or simply read a newspaper – there’s no need to tell you that a chronic shortage of qualified IT professionals continues to impede economic growth in the UK.  Yet, despite agreeing that there is a problem, authorities across industry, the education sector and the Government,[…]

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Education shake-up & employer investment are key to tackling IT skills shortage

A dramatic overhaul of IT education and better employer investment in training are vital if the UK’s chronic IT skills shortage is to be addressed, according to the UK and Ireland’s Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certification providers Future Cert. In a new white paper, Future Cert argues that a double-whammy of factors is taking its[…]