Order now to avoid 300% price hike in on-line IT training fees
On June 14th the introductory offer of £95 for a years subscription to the e-Skills National Skills Academy for IT come to an end and the price rises to £359, although there will be discounts for multiple subscriptions.
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How practical are HMG’s Olympic Teleworking Ambitions ?
Back in February thousands of civil servants were told to work from home for a couple of days as a test of...
Is DWP herding the vulnerable on-line, to be fleeced ?
Next week will see the 2012 National Digital Conference with over a thousand delegates exploring "the policy, leadership, innovation...
Has Cabinet Office given up on trying to dictate ID solutions ?
I am told that the Cabinet Office ID team are going to Washington to look at the Open Identity Exchange . I assume this is linked to the Open Identity Foundation although I see some subtle, and some not so...
Sir Humphrey 3, Ian Watmore 0 – is this end of the UK Office of the President ?
Iam Watmore played a unique role in the attempt to create a UK equivalent of the Office of President: from the Anderson/Accenture support for the New Labour project through to a return to the centre of power after the transition to a coalition government. However, the idea that the delivery of...
How not to reform a voting system that would disgrace a banana republic
The Great Surveillance Rip-Off – spending more to achieve less
What really annoys me about the current proposals for the Interception Modernisation Programme is how much it will cost,...
Democracy Won – but it was close run : we still need action on election fraud
The nail-biting climax to the London Mayoral Election with ballot boxes of postal votes supposedly emerging from storage cupboards at the last moment indicates that something is very rotten with the state of electoral conduct in the UK. Democracy is a precious gift and it does not come cheap. Once...
Will tomorrow see the first major UK election stolen by fraud since the 19th century?
During the run-up to the referendum on the Alternative Vote I blogged on the need to address fraud in the electoral register as one of the start points for the manufactured...