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Registration for the 9th annual International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy is now open at www.icep.ie/register. Workshops are on December 1 and the main conference is on December 2 at Maynooth University. The Irish Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (www.icep.ie) is celebrating its 9th year in 2016. In 2015 CCT was proud to host the 8th annual conference. […]

New figures from Eurostat, the EU statistical office highlight the education, age and gender of ICT specialists across the EU and within individual states. Highly educated ICT workforce 77.5% of Ireland’s ICT professionals have a third-level degree. This is well above the EU average of 60%. Ireland is only surpassed in this regard by Spain and Lithuania. […]

LinkedIn have unveiled the Top Skills of 2016, the skills most sought after by employers. The top ten skills are released for the global marketplace, as well as in 18 specific countries including Ireland. ICT/computing form eight of the top ten skills most in demand in Ireland. Cloud and Distributed Computing tops the Irish list for the second year in a row, […]

The Irish Times has reported that Irish education authorities will today announce plans attract 37,000 additional international students to Irish colleges and universities by 2020. This push has been raised by the UK’s Brexit vote, leaving Ireland as the only English-speaking member of the European Union. The plan aims to increase the economic value of international education to €2.1 billion by […]

The Government has published an action plan aimed at making the Irish education and training system the best in Europe by 2026. The plan will run over the next three years and will include hundreds of actions to be implemented with a focus on disadvantage, skills, and improvements within the education service. Some of these goals […]

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has compiled the data for earnings and labour costs for the first half of 2016, and with that has revealed the best-paid jobs in Ireland. The average ICT wage is €1,063.89 per week. Full story here.  

A record high of 52,289 offers were made by the CAO today, with points for many hi-tech, business and construction-related courses jumping this year. Along with a rise in CAO offers, the starting salaries of IT and business graduates is on the rise. Overall, computer science/information and communications technology (ICT) honours bachelor degree graduates were […]

Bob Savage, vice-president and managing director of EMC Centres of Excellence EMEA and head of EMC Ireland published an article in The Irish Times today, highlighting the importance of Computing in Irish Secondary Schools. Titled “School study of computer science key to Irish knowledge economy“, the article states the view that a reliable supply of […]

Almost 6,000 beds for students are in the pipeline for Dublin with more than 2,000 places already under construction in purpose-built student blocks. Only 750 houses and apartments were under construction in the first quarter of this year and 450 more granted permission, but significant numbers of student housing blocks are under development, according to research from […]

CIO.com serves Chief Information Officers (CIOs), other IT leaders, as well as the ecosystem that surrounds and interacts with them. Yesterday they ran an article called “Why every tech pro should learn to code“. The article gives a great insight into the growing demand for coding skills in various IT positions, some fairly distant from software […]