News: Performance Management
E-skills UK to update national IT training standards
24 October 2007
Employers will be able to voice their opinions on IT training and qualifications during November.
IT sector skills council e-skills UK recognises that companies want to know exactly what IT training will give their employees the right technology skills at the right level, and is updating the national standards that are used to allow for this.
The national standards for IT are the "industry-wide language" that allow people to be trained, assessed and developed in a consistent manner, and now they are being updated for 2007.
E-skills UK is holding a series of events for employers, in order to listen to their views and opinions. Each event will feature separate meetings for the needs of IT professionals and those of IT users.
They will take place in November at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; e-skills UK in Victoria, London; Malone House in Belfast; IT Foundry in Sheffield; IDC Centre in Wales; North-West Regional Development Agency in Warrington; and the Learning and Skills Council in Birmingham.
"When recruiting people to work in or with IT, they want to be able to look at a CV and understand exactly what someone should be able to do," an e-skills UK spokesman said.
The use of computers in the workplace continues to grow. A recent report from IDC indicated that shipments of PCs in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region had witnessed a significant increase in the demand of portable PCs.
