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Up to 100 jobs are due to be created in Irish IT company Version 1. Version 1 provides IT consulting, services, and solutions to business. The €8m investment is supported by the BDO Development Capital Fund, in the first allocation since the launch of the €75m fund by the Minister for Jobs in March of this year. […]

QQI Award is the single new logo for all QQI awards, irrespective of whether the award relates to a further education and training programme or a higher education and training programme. The brand logos used by the former awarding councils FETAC and HETAC, and the transitional logos used whilst the QQI award brand was in development, are […]

The summer taster course series began this week at CCT. Secondary students from all across Ireland are studying intensive, three-week long courses on topics such as Software Development, Computer Networking, Mobile Development and Gaming. The taster courses are provided completely free of charge by CCT, in order to give experience and insight into studying ICT at […]

The second Irish Supercomputer List, ranking the fastest high performance computers in Ireland was released on June 30, increasing the number of ranked computers by over 50%. The project, headed by staff at CCT and other renowned third-level institutions, was launched in November 2013 to raise the profile of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Ireland […]

Dublin is to get 125 new jobs after announcements by two US technology firms today. Internet advertising company Adroll is expanding its presence in Ireland and wants to hire 100 new staff. The company established its European headquarters in Dublin last year and announced plans to recruit 120 employees within one year. It has now […]

Attn: All International Students displaced by recent Closures of Irish Colleges The Task Force Consortium invites you to attend an information meeting regarding the continuity arrangements of your third level studies in Ireland. This invitation is open to students of the following closed Colleges: Kavanagh College, Eden College; Irish Business School Dublin ; Millennium College, Business & Computer […]

A CLOUD COMPUTING company has announced plans to create 200 new positions in Ireland over the next three years. Workday’s Dublin office is the company’s headquarters in Europe, it was established in 2008. Today’s announcement builds on a three-year commitment made by the company in 2012 to create 100 new positions. Workday currently has more than […]

Business technology company Voxpro has announced the creation of 350 new positions at its Cork-based site. The newly created positions will see the workforce at the outsourcing firm increase from 500 to 850 by the end of 2014 in a bid to support the company’s international growth strategy. Recruitment of the multilingual, technical positions is already […]

The provision of courses to match skills needs of the economy are among the top priorities in a five-year strategy for the €800m-a-year further education and training sector. The landmark strategy should bring formal structures to a sector with more than 200,000 learners for the first time. Launching the strategy developed by Solas, the authority […]

IRISH internet traffic is multiplying by 200pc per year, according to new research. Critical data-hosting market in Ireland is expanding by 18pc a year. The revelation came as Research Minister Sean Sherlock hailed the expansion of an Internet data centre as vital to ensuring a geographic counterpoint to Dublin-based IT developments. The expansion of Ireland’s data-hosting sector […]