Student Placements Amit Kumar is currently completing a MSc Internet Computing degree. He already has IT skills in Java, Web design and some Web development. He would like to gain 3 months’ experience (at least) preferably working as a Web developer/Web designer. Ideally, the work would form a project that would be suitable for submission […]

Last March, Charles Ross introduced SCALE 21 to IAP members via these pages. Here, Denis Saunders, CEO of Calibrand (previously Tecsys ) plc, reports on the latest developments. SCALE 21 is a project that’s designed to help give the IT profession a better future, to ensure that the best ICT (Information and Communications Technology) professionals […]

Robin Jones writes about the scheme for Student Members of the IAP who are looking for work placements. When I visit universities around the country, I am generally hugely impressed by the ‘real-world’ attitudes of the staff in the computing and IT departments that I talk to. The ‘ivory tower’ and ‘dreaming spires’ sobriquets are […]

Peter Venton’s views on management, expressed in September’s issue, evoked a flood of responses. All of them took a contrary – and remarkably congruous – position. I’ll let Scot McSweeney-Roberts and Sebastian Rogers speak for all of them: I fail to see how Peter Venton can make the assertion that one of the failures of […]

Depending on when you receive your copy of VSJ this month, there might still be time to get to the IAP Annual Symposium at Trinity House on Saturday November 3rd. For details, see September’s IAP News. For tickets, telephone the office on 020 8 567 2118 or email admin@iap.org.uk. Other events in November include Internet […]

Steve Cumbers, Vice President of the Institution of Analysts & Programmers, Chairman of the Association of Independent Computer Specialists and Director of TopQuark, writes about his vision of eGovernment: Open Source for Open Government STANDARDS LIBERATE: We take hardware standards for granted. When you last plugged in an electrical appliance, were you grateful for 240V […]

Mike Ryan, the Director General, writes about a deal the Institution has closed with Halifax Equitable to provide IAP members and their families with a new Stakeholder Pension on exceptional terms. You may remember that I wrote in March about the unfortunate circumstances that had overtaken the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Despite its many qualities, […]

2001 2000 INCOME Application Fees and Subscriptions £186,993 £174,578 Other Income £37,235 £24,018 Total Income £224,228 £198,596 EXPENSES Services to Members and Promotional Activities £103,074 £96,370 Salaries and Staff Costs £72,009 £64,045 Office Overheads and Professional Expenses £28,047 £26,272 Total Expenses £203,130 £186,687 SURPLUS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE £21,098 £11,909

There are still a few places available for the IAP Annual Symposium to be held at Trinity House on Saturday 3 November. For details, see last month’s IAP News. For tickets, telephone the office on 020 8 567 2118 or email admin@iap.org.uk. AGM: the IAP’s Annual General Meeting will be held in the Shakespeare room […]

Council member John Ellis, FIAP says: The future’s not so bright, the future’s XP As Microsoft’s latest offering, Windows XP, and the associated upgrades to the Microsoft Office application are rolled out with it later this year, controversy rages over the company’s new software licensing policy. Gone is the simple idea of just entering a […]