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TMCNet: IBM Offers Resources to Help Educators Prepare Students for IT Jobs

[September 08, 2008]

IBM Offers Resources to Help Educators Prepare Students for IT Jobs

(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
IBM announced that it is making its courseware and technical
skill-building tools accessible free of charge to university faculty.

IBM said the new resources will help them prepare for fall semester IT
and business courses as they expose students to in-demand IT job skills
such as software development, enterprise systems management and
business process modeling.

Previously open only to IBM Business Partners, more than 800 on-line
courses on over 45 software, hardware and services offerings are now
available to IBM Academic Initiative members.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, jobs requiring science,
engineering and technical training will increase 51 percent by the end
of next year. The increase could lead to six million job openings that
require a balanced mix of strong technical and business skills. IBM
plans to help educators prepare students for the job surge by sharing
its own resources to address this demand.

"Educational institutions today are challenged to keep abreast of the

fast-changing, dynamic nature of work. This impacts both their ability
to plan technology courses and deliver real-time teaching material to
their students," said Kevin Faughnan, Director of IBM's Academic
Initiative. "By opening up resources to faculty that were previously
only available to partners and ISVs, they can now access on-line
training on IBM technologies, allowing for enhanced education, at their
own pace, on their own time."

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