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It’s that time of year when new graduates will be updating their CVs and sending out covering letters in the attempt to find a job and get their career off to a flying start. But as this article in the Guardian says http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/19/students.highereducation, you must get it right if you want to keep your chances of s...
05 September 2008
We can barely go a week without reading about the gender pay gap and how women are paid less. Every time we see the words “women” and “pay” together we hope for an upbeat and positive story, but they seem few and far between. So for now, here’s another one telling us that most of the gender earnings divide is due to ‘unobservable factors’ includin...
02 September 2008
In order to give young people more science and technology knowledge and boost the UK’s skills in this area, the CBI is calling for a change in how students take science GCSEs. At the moment the majority of pupils take just one combined GCSE science. However these new plans would involve students that perform well in science at the age of 14 sittin...
26 August 2008
It’s great to see Team GB doing so well in the Beijing Olympics – and even better to hear that our first three gold medals were all won by women who set the pace for the rest. Then Christine Ohuruogu became the first British female to win the 400m Olympic gold. Without their efforts, we wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of the medals table, we wo
21 August 2008
It may come to a shock to you women out there, but according to a survey by pre-employment screening firm Powerchex, women graduates are 25% more likely to lie on their CV than men. Research has shown that women underestimate their ability to do a job whereas men actually overestimate their suitability. It seems that women feel they need to make t...
06 August 2008
News came recently of a ‘rogue’ computer engineer who locked administrators out of San Francisco’s computer network by changing the master password. Even after being sent to jail, he would not divulge the new code to the system, which stores data like legal records and payroll documents. It just goes to show how important technologists really are ...
04 August 2008
We are always reporting that high levels of women are leaving the IT industry due to family commitments, however now it has been claimed that record numbers of mothers are returning to work. Laing & Buisson claim that women are having children later in life when they have developed their careers and when they have more income to pay for childc...
31 July 2008
It appears that computer science graduates are facing higher unemployment rates than their fellow graduates in other subjects, with one in ten still not having a job several months after finishing University. This comes as a surprising statistic with the IT industry facing such skills shortages. Apparently degree schemes are not teaching students ...
29 July 2008
There is no doubt that the shortage of women in IT is partly due to a lack of girls interested in pursuing scientific and technological routes. And it doesn’t look like the situation is improving either. Recent research by Ofsted has said that primary school pupils are being put off science because of teachers lacking in knowledge and confidence t...
04 July 2008
We all love the seemingly pointless surveys / statements / research we so often read about. The latest one says that women are more likely to survive the current downturn than men. Why? The sweeping generalisations given to back this up include the fact that women are good at planning but also adapting their plans, better at communicating, less dr...
02 July 2008
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