President-elect Donald Trump met with technology executives Wednesday and asked them for their opinions on trade. […]
Many of the incoming freshmen starting at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the fall of 2017 will have found out they were admitted to the school through Snapchat. […]
The White House’s Interagency Policy Group released recommendations for how to increase diversity in the STEM workforce by reducing bias. […]
More than half of current university data analytics programs have been formed in the last six years, according to a recent report from software maker Tableau. […]
Computer Science Education Week began Monday with plans to rack up schools that plan to teach students one hour of code. […]
The Idaho Pathways to Early Career High School Network links high school students in the state with career coaches through Skype and text messages. […]
IBM’s school in New York City, Pathways in Technology Early College High School, combines a high school and college program, which ensures that each student receives an associate’s degree within six years. […]
Agencies can use data to pinpoint areas of the hiring and career process where diversity falls short, according to Shaun Donovan, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. […]
The Department of Education has plans to build a Federal database of student information, which has sparked protest from privacy groups. […]
The Office of Personnel Management report on the status of telework in 2016 found that the number of Federal employees who telework has continued to increase. From 2013 to 2015 telework participation increased from 39 percent to 46 percent of eligible employees. […]
CDW-G recently surveyed 300 college women and recent graduates to better understand female STEM students’ experience in higher education. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a resource to help U.S. employers more effectively identify, recruit, develop, and maintain cybersecurity talent. The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) provides a common language to categorize and describe cybersecurity work to help organizations build a strong cybersecurity staff. […]
The White House launched Worker.gov, which explains Federal workforce protections. […]
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith championed the use of data as a means of bridging the gender divide. […]
The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. Here’s a look at the South. […]
The Center for Democracy & Technology, along with the law firm BakerHostetler, developed a state-by-state compendium of privacy laws relating to the collection, use, and sharing of student data. Here’s a look at states in the Northeast. […]
Is the digital divide growing or shrinking in the United States? A new Pew Research Center report found that the digital divide, and digital readiness, is closely tied to an individual’s socioeconomic status, their race and ethnicity, and their level of access to home broadband and smartphones. […]
Amazon Web Services Educate added 25 modules called Cloud Career Pathways to help students interested in cloud-related learning test their skills. […]
Students should major in science, technology, engineering, and math fields if they want to make money right after college, according to a report from Glassdoor. […]
Nearly half of cybersecurity professionals are solicited to consider a job at a different company at least once a week, making for unstable jobs and an artificially inflated job market, according to a recent survey. […]
Technavio announced the top 10 global visual analytics vendors for the U.S. education market through 2020. Educational institutions are increasing their use of dashboards and visualizations within applications and business process management systems as part of their technology strategy. […]
Governments need to invest in training and education to close the gap between open positions and available employees in the IT workforce, according to experts who testified in front of the House Oversight Committee. […]
While most Federal IT professionals plan to vote for Hillary Clinton, they will probably lose colleagues and bosses regardless of who is elected president. According to a survey conducted by MeriTalk, 24 percent of Federal IT professionals would consider leaving government or retiring if Republican Donald Trump is elected president; 28 percent would consider leaving if Democrat Hillary Clinton is elected president. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced that it has awarded grants totaling nearly $1 million to five projects that will promote cybersecurity training and education in order to address the need for a larger cybersecurity workforce. […]
President Obama announced Wednesday that the White House will be hosting a Computer Science for All summit, and that agencies and industry partners are acting in support of computer science (CS) education. […]
Vice President Joe Biden announced $100 million in scholarships to those who are underrepresented in the technology workforce and talked about the importance of education for information technology jobs. […]
The U.S. Department of Education in August delivered a death blow for ITT Technical Institute by banning the for-profit college from accepting new students who depend on Federal student aid, which was the source of most of ITT’s revenue. On Tuesday, ITT Educational Services, the company that operates ITT Technical Institutes, said it was permanently closing all of its campuses nationwide. […]
Mikey Dickerson, administrator at the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), said that the hiring process at the Federal agency has improved since its start in 2014. […]
A shift in workforce education is necessary to improve cybersecurity, according to Matt Conner at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. […]
Moms in the technical field who take time off from work might think their chances of re-entering the workforce are slim. However, private companies are offering “returnships” for parents who’ve left work to raise children, and the public sector could use these programs as well. […]