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H-1b Demand Spike May Signal Improving Outlook For Skilled Pros
Demand for H-1B visas has risen sharply over the past six to eight weeks, and the number of companies planning to increase college hiring is also rising, indicating...
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Industry Body Forming to Address IT Graduate Skills
A pilot group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is months away from creating a global IT education-focused body to address the needs of the industry. ...
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Industry Body Forming to Address It Graduate Skills
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is creating the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), a new body designed to help ensure that educational institutions around...
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Tech Ed: Women in It
Microsoft developer Catherine Eibner recently hosted a Women in IT workshop at the annual Microsoft Tech Ed IT Forum in Queensland, Australia. It was the first...
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China Dominates Nsa-Backed Coding Contest
Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components. Whether the outcome...
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Workplace Wiki a Wakeup For Book-Smart niversity Grads
The University of Technology, Sydney, has developed the UTS Work-Ready Project, a new wiki intended to help better prepare university graduates for the workforce...
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Demand for H-1B Visas Tumbles
Applications for H-1B visas are down about a third from a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency began accepting...
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White House Says U.S. Needs H-1b Visas to Avoid 'competitive Disadvantage'
President Barack Obama has already reversed several actions and policies established by President George W. Bush, but has shown little interest in revising a rule...
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The Grill: Jeannette M. Wing on the Hot Seat
Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeannette M. Wing is an expert on computational thinking, the discipline of applying computer science's problem-solving methods...
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Get Them While They're Young: Tomorrow's It Pros
The Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow's ICT Skills (CCICT) is hoping to increase the number of students studying information technology through its new National ICT...
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The 9 Hottest Skills For '09
Even with a struggling economy and record unemployment, certain IT skills will be in high demand in the coming year. Programming and application development will...
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Stimulus Could Boost It Job Prospects
The overall outlook for IT employment in 2009 is mixed, but some analysts say the U.S. federal economic stimulus package could add IT positions. Compared to jobs...
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It Salaries Take Tiny Leaps
Salaries for information technology (IT) professionals have essentially stalled, reveals Computerworld's 22nd annual Salary Survey. The survey, based on responses...12