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    A visiting analyst has warned that an over-reliance on a temporary minerals boom and a decline in the number of science and engineering graduates will erode Australia's ICT capacity and hinder its unprecedented stretch of economic growth.

  • Skills crisis, what skills crisis?: Coonan

    Senior politicians have warned that Australia is heading for an ICT skills crisis with the country's students outpacing their teachers in their knowledge of technology.

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    A survey showing mediocre employment outcomes for Computer Science graduates has been published just as potential students tune their University applications in the light of school certificate results.

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    Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.

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    Hoping to focus the attention of Linux developers, Linux leader Linus Torvalds releases a preliminary version of the next kernel of the open-source operating system.

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    Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.

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