Massive developments are about to hit technology over the next few decades - and this means greater innovations all the time. We've barely started to see just how technology will define our world. Technology and the web will profoundly transform the way we view and interact with the rest of the world over the coming decades.

And don't forget salaries also - the typical remuneration in the United Kingdom for a typical IT professional is significantly better than the national average. It's likely you'll bring in quite a bit more than you'd expect to earn doing other work. Apparently there is no end in sight for IT industry increases in Great Britain as a whole. The market sector is still growing enormously, and with the skills shortage of over 26 percent that we're experiencing, it's most unlikely that there'll be any kind of easing off for quite some time to come.

Of course, Computer or Digital Forensics is a newer term that's been popularized through Television shows such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Obviously though the actual role in actuality won't be quite so glamorous as the programmes would have us believe! And yet, forensic investigation using advanced technologies can offer a hugely satisfying occupation. A Digital Forensics expert will search for & interpret 'digital artefacts' which are frequently utilised to resolve criminal offences.

Sitting somewhere between Digital Forensics & Security, comes the developing field of Ethical-Hacking. These are qualifications offered by the EC-Council that teach advanced students the dark concepts of 'hacking' - but with the objective of employing these skills to safeguard & raise the security of a system, instead of harming it.

In first place for the top potential problem for IT students is often the 'in-centre' workshop requirement. A lot of certification companies wax lyrical on the plus points of attending, but most students end up finding them a major problem because of:

- Multiple back and forth visits - normally 100's of miles.

- Workshop access; normally weekdays only and two or three days in a row. It's not easy to get the days away from work.

- If we get 4 weeks annual leave, giving half of them to training events leaves very little time for holidays.

- 'In-Centre' workshop days can end up over full.

- A lot of students want to progress quickly, while others are looking to take a more 'steady' pace and be allowed to set their own speed. This brings difficulty and tension in most workshops.

- Many students talk of the high costs involved with travelling back and forth to the training school while forking out for food and accommodation can get very high.

- All of us want some privacy. We should never risk losing any lift up the ladder that we're owed just because we're retraining.

- Raising questions around our class-mates will often make any one of us feel uncomfortable. Would you admit that you've occasionally avoided posing a question just because you didn't want to look foolish?

- For those who have work away from home, you face the added difficulty that days in-centre now become awkward to keep up - but unfortunately, the money has already been paid.

It obviously makes so much more sense to learn when it suits you -- not the training company - and use videos of instructors with interactive virtual-lab's. Do them at home on your PC or out in the garden on your laptop. If you've got questions, then utilise the 24x7 Support (that we hope you'll insist on with any technical courses.) Just repeat the study units at any time you feel you need to. You also don't need to scribble any notes as the teaching is yours forever. Put simply: You avoid a bunch of hassle, save money and time, and completely avoid polluting the skies.

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