Bill Cleary, of Global Knowledge, has written before in these pages about IT training issues. Here, he talks about Blended Learning Solutions, which he calls the next revolution. The Industrial Revolution changed the way people earned their living, heralding the age of mass-production and giving consumers greater choice. The computer revolution moved the computer from […]
IAP30 As trailed in July’s VSJ, this year’s Annual Symposium, celebrating the IAP’s 30th birthday, will be held at Trinity House on Thursday, 10th of October. There’s a flyer giving full details included with this issue. Please use it to make others aware of this event. You don’t have to be a member to attend […]
Chance of a Lifetime Every year, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust offers 100 Travelling Fellowships in a range of categories, varying from year to year. For 2003, they include Science and Technology and Small Business Creation, but there are others that might interest IAP members. Only British citizens are eligible, but, in other respects, the […]
Council member John Ellis, FIAP is a representative of the IAP to the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (PITCOM). Here, he reports on a meeting he attended at the end of April. It can be quite amusing to see Government at work and to observe the similarities with the ‘Real World’. At a recent meeting in […]
Mike Ryan, the Director General, talks about IAP30, this year’s Annual Symposium to be held at Trinity House Tower Hill, London on Thursday 10th October. This is the most prestigious event in the IAP calendar, celebrating 30 years that have passed since the Institution was conceived. Our varied and stimulating programme will look back to […]
Robin Jones muses on the cotton industry. The cotton industry? Well, not just cotton. There’s steel and pigs too. Two apparently unrelated news items crossed my desk the other day. The first reported that the Government has removed C++, Visual Basic and Java, among others, from the list of IT skills in short supply, so […]
Placement Request Warren Hughes is a student member of the IAP who has just completed an HND in Information Technology. He will be transferring to the third year of a Computing Science Degree at Staffordshire University this autumn. He’s looking for an eight-month work placement starting in January 2003, ideally in the Cheshire area, but […]
David Deeks, FIAP has reported on PISO before (December 2000 and July 2001). Here, he tells us about the latest developments. The formal certification I mentioned has now been refined and extended and a full certification and licensing framework is in place. As well as supporting the range of courses in the PISO method, this […]
New Fellows We are pleased to welcome four new Fellows who have been admitted to the Institution since the beginning of 2002. Samuel Adesanya MSc Although Sam started his career as a programmer over 20 years ago in Nigeria, for the last 15 years he has been working in London. Most of that time was […]
Nigel Downs, MIAP has been in software development for nearly two decades and has worked on databases for the last five. He’d like to hear your thoughts on how to interest the small business in the delights of this technology. So would we! For the past five years or so I have been working with […]
