Over 18? In Africa? Google is offering free developer courses
The Google Africa Certification Scholarships are open, and are available to anyone over 18 years and resident in an African nation.
There are 30,000 scholarships available, to be offered to those interested in one of three options: Associate Android Developer, a Mobile Web Specialist, or an Associate Cloud Engineer.
These positions will be made available on PluralSight, an online training platform. Ordinarily, access to PluralSight’s content would require a subscription fee of $29/ month, or $229/ year, or $449/year, depending on the package a person can afford. For a business, the cost would be $579/ year or $779/ year.
Andela, which also offers similar training, will play a support role in the partnership.
These scholarships only cover the course content. The content will be accessible for 9 months, or less if the awardee fails to advance.
To get the Google certification at the end of study, there will be only 1,000 grants to compete for.
“The scholarships are about preparing the youth for the jobs of tomorrow by equipping them with the right developer skills. Google’s certifications are developed around a job-task analysis that tests learners for skills employers expect developers to have in these domains, and we have already seen evidence that becoming certified can make a meaningful difference to developers and employers,” said William Florance, the Global head of developer training programmes at Google.
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