Microsoft continues computer training initiatives with UK push

3/31/2010 2:00 PM

Computing giant Microsoft has teamed up with the Prince's Trust charity in Great Britain to offer a training course in basic IT skills to young people in that country.

Tech website Computing.co.uk writes that the course will be known as the Team Programme, and that it was developed in response to the results of a Microsoft-commissioned study showing that, by the year 2015, more than three-quarters of all jobs will require some degree of IT skill.

Channel Web reports that "the scheme, which is part of Microsoft's Britain Works initiative, aims to support more than 8,000 unemployed young people across the UK over three years. It will initially be rolled out on Prince's Trust Teams in the North West, East Midlands and Wales, supporting a first batch of 700 16-25-year-olds. Microsoft will also provide the necessary hardware."

Some types of Microsoft training have also been offered to underemployed seniors in the U.S., as part of a larger effort to educate American workers in the technology they will need to use at the jobs of tomorrow.

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