Thursday 2nd October 2008
IT jobs - IT jobs created by new academy
 A new IT academy has been set up in a partnership between credit provider Egg and a university in order to save money and create IT jobs.
Promising graduates from the University of Derby will have the chance to get involved with the programme, with four students being selected in the first six months of the project, Computing reports.
Robin Young, chief information officer at Citi UK Consumer, which Egg is now part of, told the magazine that benefiting financially was the firm's main aim, but nurturing skills for jobs in IT is also an advantage.
"The motivation for setting up this academy is purely financial. I think the best way to develop IT is locally, with global architecture principles," he said.
"It is a simple calculation – we found a way to reduce our overall cost base and still have the same output, as we will work on developing workers' skill sets and get more for our money."
Egg has an IT department of 300 at its East Midlands base, making it one of the largest IT employers in the area.
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