Monthly Archives: February 2012

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK unemployment rate rose from 0.1% to 8.4% for the last quarter of 2011, and the number of unemployed people rose by 48,000 to 2.67m. But there are some facts give cause … Continue reading →

His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attended the 2012 Engineering and Technology Careers Fair, opening the event that had been organised by ECS-Electronics and Computer Science for the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences at the University of Southampton. The … Continue reading →

An appeal had been sent out to members of the public to sponsor the new gallery that will be used to house the Colossus computer at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) on Bletchley Park. The funds would be used to … Continue reading →

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has reported its first bit of positive news in a number of months in relation to the jobs market, claiming that the recruitment of permanent staff has risen for the first time in four months … Continue reading →

A leading academic in the computer science field has called on industry heads to work more closely with computing departments in universities in an effort to improve the employability of graduates before they head out into the world of work … Continue reading →

An MP has called fro the posthumous pardoning of the computing pioneer and expert code breaker Alan Turing. Turing, who invented the Turing Machine and was instrumental in the creation of the concepts of algorithms and computations. He was also instrumental … Continue reading →

A recent report has claimed that Canadian organisations are going to be looking to create more IT jobs during the course of 2012, however a number of them are worried about developing the positions in the future in addition to … Continue reading →