Stories about: TAFE

Google is close to landing a contract with the NSW Department of Education and Training to support 1.3 million students with Gmail.

The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has rolled out a department-wide ID management system to increase the speed and transparency of its user authentication system portals.

The lack of short courses in IT programming in Adelaide has prompted an IT and open source enthusiast to seek funding to devise her own PHP course to meet demand.

The Red Hat empire is spreading with Canberra TAFE signing up as the latest academic institution to partner with the Linux vendor to offer training to its students and prepare them for the Red Hat Certified Technician exam (RHCT).

Fresh after the version 10.1 release of its OpenSuSE Linux operating system, Novell users hosted an installfest in Sydney this week where a number of enterprises fired up the penguin for the first time.

Red Hat certified Linux training will be offered at TAFE for the first time, with courses launched at institutes in Victoria and Tasmania.

TAFE Tasmania and Chisholm Institute in Melbourne will offer Linux training this year through Red Hat's Academy program.

IT Training provider Spherion Group has become the first Australian educational institution to gain Red Hat Academy Program accreditation and will soon begin offering training for the vendor’s systems technician certification.

Linux Australia is holding a seminar this month on the need for Linux certification in the workplace. Evan Leibovitch, head of key Linux training body the Linux Professional Institute, will offer his insights in the present state of certification in Australia, and abroad.

Linux Australia’s first female president, Pia Smith, has set her sights on educating Australia on open source software following her election at linux.conf.au last week in Perth.

New South Wales (NSW) schools and TAFE institutions will soon gain access to a new multi-million dollar high-speed broadband system, following the NSW Government.s announcement that it has awarded five telecommunications companies contracts to start work on the network.