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  • Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project

    An Ohio startup company has raised US$200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.

  • Up-and-Coming Tech Jobs

    Any study of the IT labor market is likely to find that project managers and business analysts are in demand, but what about cloud transformation officers?

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    Salvos launch new game

    The Salvation Army has today officially launched its new game, Damien’s Dash.

  • One Laptop Per Child Australia scores $11.7m in federal budget

    One Laptop Per Child Australia received a one-off boost in the federal budget, scoring $11.7 million of funding. In addition, budget measures mean that donations to OLPC Australia will be tax deductible from 1 July.

  • The Grill: Arthur Langer turns the IT education model on its head

    Arthur M. Langer is chairman and founder of Workforce Opportunity Services, a nonprofit that uses an outsourcing model to train economically disadvantaged youth and match them with hard-to-fill IT positions. Langer's "skills first" approach stresses getting vocational training and a job upfront, and then gradually fulfilling general education requirements part time to finish a degree in five to six years -- leaving students with no debt. And since many families today can't afford the cost of college tuition, Langer's model is one that could have much broader appeal.

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Features about education

  • 50 years of essential student technology equipment

    University students just can't do without their gadgets. We look at the technology that's been a must-have for students from the 1950s to the present day.

  • IBM, Monash extend IT education partnership

    IBM and Monash University have partnered on a new $1.2 million Future Leaders Scholarship program aimed at developing IT leaders versed in both technology and business.

  • Education IT chiefs debate open source

    The concept of open source software seems so firmly entrenched in higher education that it comes as almost a shock to realize there's actually a debate over it. But debate there was, civilized and trenchant, this week during the annual Educause conference on high technology in higher education in the US.

  • Six essential steps to secure academia

    Computer networks in the academic world are a lot like the Wild West: It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and the sheriff's ability to maintain order is severely limited.

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