JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Israel’s Reichman College have arrange a faculty to coach high-tech professionals, providing programs in pc programming, gross sales and knowledge evaluation amongst different topics, the college stated on Monday.
Israel has a vibrant high-tech sector however a extreme scarcity of expert tech employees has led to tens of 1000’s of unfilled positions.
The College of Excessive Tech will subsidise college students from under-represented communities “together with ladies, the ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, members of the Ethiopian group and folks from the geo-social periphery and deprived socio-economic teams,” the college stated.
“We imagine that quite a lot of voices, opinions and views enriches Israeli high-tech and its developments,” stated Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel.
Programs are being rolled out over the subsequent few weeks and college students finishing programs on the faculty will earn credit score in the direction of a level, the college stated.
Programs, which will probably be held on the Google Campus in Tel Aviv and the Reichman College within the Israeli metropolis of Herzliya, will probably be provided in programming, software program testing, enterprise growth, gross sales and knowledge evaluation and Google will present scholarships to contributors.
The know-how sector accounts for about 15% of Israel’s financial exercise and tons of of recent startups are based annually. Within the first half of 2022, Israeli tech corporations raised almost $10 billion in investments, in line with the Israeli Tech Overview.
Google has been stepping up funding in Israel.
Reporting by Emily Rose;
Modifying by Steven Scheer and Susan Fenton
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