The debate surrounding the introduction of computing classes in Irish schools has been simmering for the past two years, fuelled by the popularity of the CoderDojo movement, and companies citing a lack of skilled graduates to fill ICT positions.
With 900,000 ICT vacancies predicted across the European Union in 2015, bridging the skills gap could present Europe’s young with some great opportunities, according to Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton.
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The second element of the plan that Howlin revealed last year saw the return of a phrase that many of us believed was consigned to the dustbin of technology history: e-government.
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The plan, which has been drawn up in accordance with the Croke Park industrial Agreement between the Government and public sector unions, says the Government intended considering a business case for shared services to administer the PS payroll early next year.
The draft plan envisages longer opening hours for some State services as well as further cuts to the number of court venues and other office accommodation.
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., announced that the Higher Education Authority (HEA) is today issuing a tender for a second phase of ICT graduate skills conversion programmes to commence in early 2013.
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It has put the first five in a series of ‘how to’ videos online here.
These short videos are specifically designed to help users who are accessing the NLI from home to carry out a range of functions, including how to locate some of the 487,683 searchable items quickly; how to register for a reader’s ticket, place online orders for material, search the library’s photographic collections, and find newspapers.
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