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UK-based Firebrand Training Center, which offers boot camp-style courses at its all-inclusive training centers, has some pretty impressive numbers to report about its apprentice program. Thanks to help from the UK government and CompTIA, 99 percent of Firebrand’s apprentices are offered a permanent job by their employer at the end of the first year.

CertMaster, a comprehensive new neuroscience-based learning tool from CompTIA, has already garnered fans in the IT community, like 43-year-old Sean Byrne, a warehouse and office manager from Ireland. “Once I start the tutorials, I find it hard to stop,” he said. The adaptive training program, designed to help people start or advance their IT careers, was built on research from neurobiology, cognitive psychology and game studies.

Accelerated learning is the hallmark of Firebrand Training, a UK-based global learning center that promises fast, quality results. There, IT instructor Gary Fildes has undertaken some experiments that move the curriculum along faster and take his UK apprentice students from IT zeroes to IT heroes.

Catch a ride this summer on Harper College’s new innovation: a charter bus turned computer classroom.

The annual PCR Brit List features the 50 most influential people in tech, from directors to CEOs, retail buyers to doctors and even a few celebrities. The list by PCR – a universally read UK IT publication – includes people who are inspiring innovations, evolutions and progression in the IT channel. This year, CompTIA’s membership was represented among the movers and shakers in the IT world, first with our own Vaughan Shayler. Shayler, CompTIA’s director of channel strate ...

Parked just south of the Capital Beltway, the LAYC Career Academy is an innovative charter school serving Washington D.C.’s disconnected youth. They offer GED training for those who need it, college credits for high school graduates, and direct pathways to careers in health care and IT. The self-paced curriculum lets students plot their own path to A+ certification.

There are one million service members transitioning from military service to civilian life, and many of them need jobs. Moreover, they need help translating their military experience, which teaches things like leadership, team-building and a strong work ethic, into a resume that will jump out at a hiring manager in the civilian world. U.S. Tech Vets is a great tool in this arsenal. Through a partnership between Monster.com and the country’s top technology associations, U.S. Tech Vets is co ...

A grassroots event to educate the IT industry on tech-related legislation brought out about two to three dozen entrepreneurs, educators and parents Monday morning to the downtown office of the Illinois Technology Association (ITA). The TechVoice Illinois briefing, hosted by ITA and CompTIA, and sponsored by Google, was an informal forum that touched on patent litigation reform, immigration, cybersecurity, taxes and STEM education. The forum was moderated by Andrew Hoog, chief executive officer o ...

Young and energetic Christopher Brito wasn’t interested in school when he was a student — just ask his family, he says — but 12 months at a Washington, D.C., career academy changed both his mentality and his career path.

Fiberlink Communications made headlines in late 2013 when it was scooped up by IBM, and the mobile device management provider keeps making noise with the help of CompTIA’s Mobility+ certification. Last month, Fiberlink unveiled a new certification for its partners called the MaaS360 Partner Certification Program. As a prerequisite, anyone entering the MaaS360 Academy must first earn the CompTIA Mobility+ certification.