Chinese team up with Irish IT experts By Karlin Lillington

High-level Chinese IT managers are upgrading their tech skills at DCU and adjusting to the relaxed pace of life. full story>>

CSE sets sights on new opportunities By Brian Skelly

The bursting of the tech bubble has claimed some notable scalps but the Centre for Software Engineeing (CSE) was not expected to be one of them. However, the respected training and consultancy organisation came within a whisker of closure when it ran into funding difficulties earlier this year. Long-time employee Michael O’Duffy (pictured) put together a rescue package and, as its new chief executive, he is determined to put the bad days behind him. full story>>

Chinese Partners Ed Cormac Sheidan

The Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) at Dublin City University has added an extra strand to its technical and management training programme for Chinese software engineers. The centre wants to introduce these trainees to Irish software companies and to encourage the formation of commercial partnerships. Such linkages, it hopes, will enable more Irish firms to sell software into China, which is expected to become the world's largest IT market. full story>>

Chinese Puzzle By Brian Skelly

Fourteen top software engineers from China are mid-way through a six-month training programme at the Centre for Software Engineering based at DCU in Dublin. The engineers, drawn from a range of top Chinese IT firms including the largest IT services company and the biggest computer manufacturer, are being taught by leading Irish software practitioners. full story>>

E-Visionary - Michael O'Duffy

What are the main challenges facing the Irish tech sector?
Three immediately occur to me, early stage funding, achieving critical mass, and moving up the value chain.

First, a key feature of longer term success.........full story>>

Back to school for senior IT execs

REPRESENTATIVES from a number of Chinese software companies are currently in Ireland to improve their technical and management skills. full story>>

CSE wins Chinese training contract By Brian Skelly

Top technical personnel from several leading Chinese software firms are being given advanced technical and management training at the Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) at Dublin City University, as a result of an agreement signed with the China International Talent Exchange Foundation (CITEF). full story>>

Centre for Software Engineering back in business By Gavin Daly

Dublin City University (DCU) has relaunched the Centre for Software Engineering (CSE), a campus company that was reported to have closed earlier this year. full story>>

CSE LOOKS OUTSIDE IRELAND FOR REVENUES By Che Golden

The Centre for Software Engineering is looking outside Ireland to increase revenues over the next five years. The centre has already set up a relationship with China and the first group of IT professionals from China have embarked on CSE's six month Advanced Software Engineering Programme. The centre has been developing a similar relationship in Iran, where it is focusing on research and development training with technical managers based in both countries. The CSE is currently talking to three other countries about similar training programmes. full story>>

Client Mix Changes at CSE Ed Cormac Sheidan

The recently restructured Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) at Dublin City University expects to provide services to more early stage software companies in the coming year. The centre offers technical training and consulting services, including programmes that allow companies to share the costs of skills acquisition. These cover subjects like strategic positioning and technology selection for younger firms and process improvement and the management of research and development for more mature companies. full story>>

CSE to Continue Ed Cormac Sheidan

The university has negotiated a new arrangement that involves a joint stakeholding in the CSE company for Michael O'Duffy, one of the centre's longest serving officials. The revamped CSE will continue to offer industry training and to advise software companies on a one-to-one basis. full story>>

Restructuring at CSE By John Kennedy

It has emerged that two weeks after the reported closure of the Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) the board of the organisation has entered into restructuring that will see the CSE continue its existence in serving the needs of the software sector at home and abroad. full story>>