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GUEST OPINION by Claudio Cardile, ANZ Managing Director, Barco:  Struggling with a skills shortage made more acute by closed international borders, Australian companies are placing renewed focus on the professional development of their existing employees.

Australia’s Health Informatics Society (HISA) and the Digital Health Agency have joined forces to launch a new professional development program to identify the necessary digital health capabilities for nurses and midwives to further improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care that they deliver.

IT, security and process training provider DDLS is to deliver training in Australia for information technology training services provider New Horizons.

Australian IT training company NextTech, has acquired the franchisee assets of US-based information technology training services provider New Horizons.

Singapore telco Singtel is investing S$45 million over three years in a professional development program designed to boost the digital skills of its 12,600 employees.

Millennials are predicted to make up 75% of Australia’s workforce by 2025 and are set to make a “positive and progressive” impact on Australian business, according to a new research report.

The Finite Group of companies has completed its participation in a new Indigenous training initiative which delivered a one-week professional development programme in project management for Indigenous cohorts.

Concern has been expressed that high-ranking public officials, particularly legal professionals,  may not possess at least the most basic computer and electronic communication skills, including the know-how to send emails

Technology certification is big business in today’s IT driven world, where quality knowledge and professionalism is vital in delivering value to employers, employees and customers.

Technical IT training group Dimension Data Learning Solutions (DDLS) has teamed up with US consulting firm Ouellette & Associates in a strategic partnership to deliver learning and development content in the Australian market.

Applications to attend the 15th annual IT leadership programme specifically focussed on the needs of IT professionals working in the tertiary education sector close on Monday. This year's particular carrot is a very strong line-up of presenters with extensive and broad university experience.

Australian enterprises faced with the spectre of IT skills crises should revisit their professional development programmes in order to retain key employees longer, and reduce the costs associated with staff churn.

A Masters of IT student based at the University of Sydney, who has been commissioned by Suncorp to work on a project to update GIO's e-greenslips system, is the first NSW student to be placed on a CEED project in over a decade.

Around 650 project and programme managers are expected to descend on Melbourne this week for the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Global Congress - just as demand for IT project managers is again on the march in Australia.