eBay Inc to open EMEA headquarters in Dundalk today
eBay Inc is to open its International Operations Centre in Dundalk, Co Louth, this morning, bringing to 3,000 the number of people the internet auction giant employs in Ireland.
25.Apr.2013 09:44
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CoderDojo NYC co-founder calls for more female mentors (video)
Rebecca Garcia, the 22-year-old co-founder of the first CoderDojo in New York City, says that learning how to code could enable children to overcome social and economic barriers and that in the quest to get more girls to learn how to code more female mentors and role models are needed.
24.Apr.2013 12:56
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RoboRugby Competition tests UCD students’ engineering skills
The 2013 Siemens RoboRugby Competition champion was decided at last night’s final held at UCD’s Belfield campus, demonstrating the engineering skills of these first-year students.
24.Apr.2013 12:43
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The 21st century workforce: skills gap & the STEM dilemma (infographic)
Employers have a long-term concern about filling 21st-century job openings because the workforce lacks skills, reveals a new infographic that takes a closer look at this skills gap and how science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) are key to growth and innovation.
24.Apr.2013 11:59
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Girls that code could help fix skills shortage bugging tech
Normally, Slane Castle in Co Meath is associated with the deifying of rock royalty, like U2 or the Rolling Stones. But on a sunny April Saturday morning the talk was of a different breed of rock star who will resonate more profoundly in this century – the coder.
23.Apr.2013 10:04
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NGOs, IBM and businesses team up to tackle digital literacy
A new website that makes basic online tasks easy for new users has been launched through an initiative spearheaded by Business in the Community Ireland and collaboration between a number of not-for-profit organisations and IBM Ireland.
23.Apr.2013 09:08
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Career memes of the week: astronaut
What do a sloth, hamster and the TV programme The Big Bang Theory have in common? They all turn the spotlight on astronauts, the profession in this week’s career memes of the week.
23.Apr.2013 06:00
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Ireland plans to create 20,000 new manufacturing jobs by 2016
The Irish Government has published plans devised by Forfás and the Expert Group on Future Skills to create 20,000 new manufacturing jobs by 2016.
22.Apr.2013 12:32
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CoderDojoGirls kicks off at DCU this Saturday
CoderDojoGirls kicks off at Dublin City University (DCU) this weekend - and an article on Siliconrepublic.com has played an important part in getting it going.
22.Apr.2013 10:05
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Online ads player Marin to create 35 new jobs in Dublin
Search, social and mobile advertising player Marin Software Inc is to create 35 new jobs in Dublin over the next three years.
19.Apr.2013 07:39
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Jobs boost for Limerick - 60 new software jobs via ACI investment
Limerick woke up to the good news this morning that ACI Worldwide Inc is to create 60 new jobs with the expansion of its Software Development Centre in the city.
19.Apr.2013 07:24
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CAO study shows increased interest in STEM at third level
A detailed analysis of applications for third-level study carried out by Dr Vivienne Patterson and Valerie Harvey of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) demonstrates a boosted interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) courses over the past five years.
17.Apr.2013 11:27
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Irish Government OKs Minister Bruton’s plans to integrate Forfás into DJEI
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton, TD, has been granted Irish Government approval to start drafting legislation that will see policy advisory board Forfás transformed into a strategic policy division in his department.
17.Apr.2013 10:05
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Brilliant minds: women and girls in mathematics (infographic)
Men and women are just wired differently. It’s because of stereotypes. Men are just better at the subject. These are reasons that have been given as to why more men pursue mathematics studies and careers than women, and a new infographic takes a closer look as to why this is still the case.
16.Apr.2013 15:25
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Free TechElevate programme launches to help job-seekers break into IT
The Dublin-based Digital Skills Academy is launching a free programme called TechElevate to help graduate job-seekers of ICT and computing courses upskill in order to work in areas such as web development and IT technical project management.
16.Apr.2013 12:20
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Ireland will need even more skilled immigrants to plug IT skills gap - ISA chair
Ireland will have to go even further than the reforms of the past week to fill the IT skills gap by encouraging even more skilled migrants to locate in the country, the new chair of the Irish Software Association (ISA) Edel Creely said.
16.Apr.2013 11:34
