September 2011

e-skills UK leads government and employer collaboration at Delivering Digital Wales

04/10/2011

Last week e-skills UK hosted the second Delivering Digital Wales conference in Cardiff.  The event, sponsored by OCR and the Open University, brought together all manner of digital stakeholders including employers; Welsh Government; IT professionals; and representatives from HE, FE and schools.

Keynote speakers at the event included Karen Price, CEO e-skills UK; Ronan Miles, Director of Customer Innovation Services BT and Chair of e-skills UK employer board for Wales; and Jeff Cutherbert, Deputy Minister for Skills

Employers report skills gaps despite record IT employment

27/09/2011

Download our paper discussing the IT skills sought by IT employers

While the number of IT professionals has hit an all time high, employers are still reporting skills gaps and a lack of investment in training and development.

Find out which skills are in most demand by employers, and the training you made need to ensure you and your business can succeed.

App developers must not ignore previous generation phones

25/08/2011

IT development teams building mobile apps for smartphones could be missing the opportunity to engage with a huge number of customers by ignoring previous generations of phones.