We’re organising an IAP visit to Bletchley Park on Friday, 4 May 2012. There will be a guided tour of the complex, a visit to the Colossus and Tunny machines, a cooked lunch and mid morning and afternoon refreshments. The inclusive cost to IAP members is £20. No additional charge is made for car parking. […]

The New Year has started with an – apparently orchestrated – tirade against the teaching of ICT in Britain’s schools. It came in for severe criticism from Ofsted at the back end of 2011, the Royal Society has chipped in with a report from Steve Furber (of BBC Micro fame), Michael Gove has made a […]

We are currently advertising for an additional part-time administrative officer at our Boundary House, Hanwell office. Anyone interested should email a CV and covering letter to Robin Jones, Executive Director for Professionalism & Education at jonesr@staff.iap.org.uk. The details of the post are: Job description: The key duties of the post are to:- General 1. help […]

Janet Richards at e-skills UK advises us that: the IT Professional Profile, the latest offering from the National Skills Academy for IT, is now live. The Professional Profile is completely free to use and is a secure, online record of skills, using common, sector-agreed terminology (the IT Professional Standards) which has been organised and aligned […]

Geoff Evelyn, FIAP follows up his recent article on SharePoint Training with a detailed guide to implementation in just ten steps. Find it here.

Geoff Evelyn, FIAP has written on aspects of SharePoint for us before. He is a SharePoint architect and evangelist who has written or co-authored three books for O’Reilly/Microsoft Press. See his Web site www.sharepointgeoff.com for full details. He also writes for several other professional bodies and contributes regularly to the SharePoint TechNet forums. Geoff is […]

The Institution’s 2011 AGM will be on Saturday, 15 October, at Boundary House, Boston Road, Hanwell W7 2QE, starting at 1.00 pm. The AGM is usually a short meeting, its purpose being merely to fulfil a requirement of the Companies Acts, but all members of the Institution are welcome to attend. Those wishing to do […]

The full programme is now available. Click the image to view it.

As members will have noticed from the IAP’s LinkedIn group, this year’s Autumn symposium (title: ‘The Virtual World’) is to take place at the Churchill War Rooms, Westminster on 14 October. We’ve assembled an impressive group of IT industry leaders who have agreed to make presentations. They are (in alphabetical order, and, by a strange […]