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IT Trainers Newswire - Issue 48
November 2002
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/zones/it
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REFERENCE: IT Key Skills Guide, IT Resource pack
NEWS: IT managers lack non-IT training, regional skills needs
examined
FORUM: Post your views
ANY ANSWERS: ICT strategy for SMEs, assessing basic PC skills, IT
company training plan
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Editor's Note
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This special edition of the IT Trainers Newswire is brought to
you in association with Cisco.
The slowdown in demand for IT skills might itself be slowing
down, which is a start. Meanwhile everyone is telling us that we
need to improve skills to raise the UK's productivity. So what
would make all the difference? What would revive the IT training
profession? Email us with your opinion, or post it in the forum:
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Key Skills
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Latest IT News
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IT vacancies continue to fall
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No improvement in the jobs market, but in some areas the decline
may be bottoming out:
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/95125
IT managers short of non-IT training
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IT managers increasingly need a range of non-IT skills, but it
looks as if few of them are getting training in them:
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/94101
A brief history of e-learning
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Brian Holley identifies the roots to e-learning in programmed
learning, and looks at the skills required for developing
effective computer-based training.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/92099
SCORM in a teacup?
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A look at the SCORM standards in e-learning:
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/93136
Regional IT skills needs examined
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The IT skills body, e-skills, has examined ICT skills around the
UK, and identified major needs:
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/92344
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Any Answers
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Any Answers questions on IT issues continue to flood in. Do you
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- I have been asked to draft an ICT strategy for an SME. Does
anyone have any guidance on what to (and what not to) include -
or a draft strategy to look at?
Marion Blacker
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/94420/743
- In preparation for the launch of a new IT system into branches
of a multi-site business that currently have limited PC access, I
would like to identify the basic PC skills levels of staff. Any
ideas or examples of tools would be appreciated.
Simon Fitzgerald
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/93728/743
- I am looking for an example of an organisation training plan
from an I.T company, in particular one that shows the link
between business goals and training requirements.
Rebecca Grangeret
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/93192/743
To answer any of these questions, or add your own, see
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