IBM is leading a new initiative to collaborate with educators in teaching students the open standards skills necessary to compete and keep pace with changes in the information technology workplace. When the company announced the IBM Academic Initiative in July, it noted that the program is intended to "better prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow."
Describing it as "an innovative program offering a wide range of technology education benefits from free to fee that can scale to meet the goals of most colleges and universities," IBM said that it would work with schools that support open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, IBM will work with these institutions both directly and via the Internet.
Moreover, IBM says that it will work with a wide range of postsecondary institutions--from large universities to community colleges to career and technical schools. The company will work with select schools that support open standards in three key objectives: training an IT workforce to fill the new kinds of jobs that are emerging at IBM and across the industry; providing the right skills to the next generation of IT workers to ensure they are qualified for the jobs of tomorrow; and ensuring that universities have the most current, relevant curricula that map to the kinds of jobs that are expected, so schools can be attractive for enrollment, funding and growth.
As one of the initiative's benefits, IBM will assign a technical team to assess an institution's IT curricula and provide technical training and skills for faculty and staff. Academic Initiative participants can also take advantage of IBM's Workforce Development Solutions and Advanced Career Education.
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