Commencing in January 2012, Stanford University is running a number of on-line based courses.  Dive in!  Be educated!

A survey conducted by Kelly Services found that less than half of Australian employees believe their employer has prepared them for future success. How did the IT sector fare?

  A new networking laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology's Hawthorn campus is said to be the 'best in Australia.'  

Training group, Upskilled, has launched new courses for IT professionals which it says will allow existing vendor certifications and industry experience to be turned into nationally recognised qualifications.

The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is to launch technical facilities and a training program provided by Alcatel-Lucent at its Blackfriars campus starting in the first semester 2012. 

A taught Masters degree in some fields still comes close to being an automatic ticket to employment. Unfortunately, that's not the case with IT.

NBN Co is looking for trainers able to deliver industry-recognised training courses to the people who will actually build the NBN.

Enrolments in IT degree courses at Australian universities have fallen by 61% in a decade, according to Charles Sturt University.

If you want free training in Microsoft's products, just get yourself accepted as a contestant in the new on-line reality show "Career factor."

The IEEE, the world's largest technical professional technology association, has launched the IEEE eLearning Library offering almost 200 short, online courses in core and emerging technologies.

Fears have been raised that Australia will remain a net importer of digital content unless local companies can hire more people with current skills. A release issued today by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT estimates the trade deficit already stands at $2 billion.

IBM is partnering with the Wroclaw University of Technology to establish a university cloud computing centre.

Australian enterprises faced with the spectre of IT skills crises should revisit their professional development programmes in order to retain key employees longer, and reduce the costs associated with staff churn.

Huawei Australia and RMIT University are teaming to deliver training in high-speed communications technology and related applications.

A Masters of IT student based at the University of Sydney, who has been commissioned by Suncorp to work on a project to update GIO’s e-greenslips system, is the first NSW student to be placed on a CEED project in over a decade.

A joint initiative between computer maker Dell and the Australian Government intended to recognise individuals and organisations striving to help women rise through the Australian Public Service’s ICT ranks, last night announced the programme’s inaugural award winners at a dinner in Canberra.

The call has gone out for women ICT professionals to step forward and act as mentors for females entering the profession, a group still significantly outnumbered by their male peers.

Around 650 project and programme managers are expected to descend on Melbourne this week for the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Global Congress – just as demand for IT project managers is again on the march in Australia.

IT recruitment company Greythorn seems to have jumped the gun somewhat by announcing the appointment of Paxus national sales director Richard Fischer as Greythorn’s new managing director.

Today's announcement by Minister Kim Carr of the first national science communication report paints a relatively poor picture of science education in Australia.