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Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news
Thursday 3 May 2007, 4:08 PM
HP funds upskilling for graduates and the unemployed
HP is to help fund IT training for graduates and unemployed people under the age of 25 across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Its funding contributes towards a wider programme called GET-IT, or Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT. GET-IT aims to give younger people a much better chance to enter the IT profession and to start up their own businesses.
Needless to say, HP's contribution will be in the form of equipment, while the actual training will be provided by 35 not-for-profit organisations in 18 countries.
The PC vendor didn't say how much money it was ploughing into the work, but the overall project is worth $1.4million.
Seemingly there's not a skills shortage any more, but any effort to increase IT skills in Europe has got to be a good thing - as long as they are the IT skills that are really needed by businesses.
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