Stories about: Deakin University

Developments within the IT industry mean that universities are updating their courses, expanding their offering and methods of delivery. Helen Schuller reports on national postgraduate trends and speaks to those leading the charge

Demand for undergraduate degrees in IT continued to drop this year, with preferences shifting away from traditional computer science, engineering and programming subjects to newer offerings such as game development and degrees that combine arts or business subjects.

Very few enterprises in Australia use encryption to protect sensitive data, especially if it involves customer data.

Struggling to cope with increasing volumes of spam, Deakin University was forced to redeploy its Linux e-mail servers and implement an alternative system for e-mail security.

With the end of the year in sight, many IT professionals take stock of their career prospects and consider the options available to bag that promotion or go for that dream job.

Can anyone be an IT guru with enough cash? Is tech success all about deep pockets?

Overseas vendors seeking to influence government IT and communications policy have been publicly frozen out of the policy-making loop, with IT and Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan opting for a blend of research and business brains in the selection of her ICT Advisory Board.

Users faced with buggy software say they get a rough deal from vendors to the point where a tertiary institution maintains a full-time department dedicated to checking and re-testing new applications.

When it comes to making choices about furthering professional qualifications and training there are certainly no shortage of academic options. For the last 30 years, an MBA degree has been seen as the benchmark that the business community sets for managers to progress to senior executive level. Yet with the rise and rise of the information technology industry, most tertiary institutions offering an information sciences or computing degree are adding a Masters option — often in the form of a Masters in Business Technology or a Masters in Information Technology Management — while almost every tertiary institution in Australia offers an MBA. The question for many about to take the plunge back into academia is which one will hold more sway when times get tough, and which will bring in more bacon when the sun shines.

The University of Western Sydney (UWS) has angrily rejected claims by the Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary and Member for Lindsay, Jackie Kelly, that it has botched its IT infrastructure planning and roll out.

Deakin University hopes to triple its IT storage capacity with a “business-critical” project to consolidate its data storage and data management systems.