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  • Unis tackle student shortage catastrophe

    Today 38 Australian universities held their first joint meeting to tackle what some have described as a "catastrophic" drop in the numbers of Australian students enrolling in information and communications technology courses.

  • Parties war on skills crisis as business suffers

    With many Australian companies now finding a lack of skilled staff holding back their business, Labor has accused the Coalition of doing little to tackle the skills crisis.

  • Government to help get more bodies in IT

    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, introduced the Skills Australia Bill 2008 to Parliament yesterday, with some observers already saying it will bolster the IT industry in fighting the skills crisis.

  • AU$15 million plan to plug public service ICT gaps

    The Australian public service is striking back at the skills crisis by training its own IT workers in a new AU$15 million, four-year apprenticeship program.

  • University calls for greater IT industry engagement

    Universities are calling on IT vendors to make a greater investment in the tertiary sector to tackle the skills crisis.

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  • Do Australian ICT workers matter?

    Claims that Australia suffers from an ICT skills shortage is simply unfounded but the lack of support from the government and industry associations to counter these assertions has left workers in the lurch.

  • CenITex needs to be governed for success

    Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.

  • Election 07: Coonan vs Conroy

    With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • How to fix Australia's telco policy conundrum

    Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.

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