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New website launches to gear up the nation for IT training
(10 March 2010)
Employers, IT professionals and training providers are invited to be the first wave of people to register with the National Skills Academy for IT by visiting its newly-launched website.
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e-skills UK backs government drive to get 7.5 million more people online
(03 March 2010)
The government has set a target to get 60% of the 12.5 million people who are not online in the UK, online in the next four years. The target underpins a new drive to reduce the digital divide in the government's National Digital Participation Plan
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The e-skills Manifesto - Employers call for action on e-skills
(01 March 2010)
The heads of leading IT & Telecoms companies and CIOs from all sectors of the economy have joined together with e-skills UK the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology to publish the e-skills Manifesto. Companies backing the Manifesto include Cable & Wireless, Cisco, Logica, HP, IBM, Quicksilva, BA, National Grid, UBS and Whitbread. With 2.46 million people currently unemployed in the UK, the group say that investment in technology skills is essential for economic growth and employment.
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Getting 100,000 British businesses online
(25 February 2010)
Getting British Business Online - BT, e-skills UK, Enterprise UK, Google, the IoD and PayPal launch initiative to help small businesses create a free professional website and find relevant training and support.
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Essential Skills Wales and ITQ for Life Mapping Workshop
(21 January 2010)
e-skills UK in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government will be running a Workshop on the mapping of Essential skills Wales to the ICT framework ITQ and CQWF.