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Spring offer - Free Netbook with your MCSA or MCSE course
For every tutor led or blended learning MCSA or MCSE course purchased before the end of April we will give you a free Netbook. You will be able to access your course software from anywhere in the world, or keep in touch by accessing your emails, following sporting events or just surfing the web wherever you are. Slim, compact and portable, Netbooks (aka mini-notebooks, mini-notes or "laptots") are perfect travel companions and meet basic computing needs, including e-mailing, Web surfing, and document creation.
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Visit http://www.es-net.co.uk/contact_us.html and leave your details, typing Netbook in the promotional code field. Someone will contact you on the next working day.
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UK IT work visas
More than 35,000 non-EU IT workers were allowed to enter the UK to work last year, according to new statistics obtained by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) from the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act.
Nearly 83% of IT work visa approvals for 2008 were for people from India, with the UK government giving out 29,400 work visas to them last year, and a further 1,635 to Americans . UK IT work visas were also given last year to workers from China, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, and Russia.
"It seems crazy that with the economy in a severe downturn and thousands of IT workers having already lost their jobs we are still bringing three times as many foreign IT workers to the UK than during the dot com boom when we had a chronic skills shortage," said chief executive Ann Swain, in a statement.
She noted that 80 per cent of non-European tech workers are moving to the UK on intra-company transfers. Swain called for the government to force firms to hire from the UK labour market first, especially given recent layoffs.
This month's jargon buster
BIOS - The BIOS is an acronym that stands for the Basic Input/Output System according to the IBM Personal Computer Technical Reference manual or the punctuational variants Basic Input Output System, or Basic Input-Output System. BIOS in part refer to the firmware code run by a PC when first powered on, which is a type of boot loader. The primary function of the BIOS is to identify and initialize system component hardware (such as the video display card, hard disk, and floppy). This is to prepare the machine into a known low capability state, so other software programs stored on various media can be loaded, executed, and given control of the PC. This process is known as booting, or booting up, which is short for bootstrapping. Among other classes of computers, the generic terms boot monitor, boot loader or boot ROM were commonly used.
Coming soon …
Information about Microsoft's new exam track and accreditation for Microsoft Certified IT Professionals