Google units up high-tech college at Israeli College By Reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Alphabet (NASDAQ:) Inc’s Google and Israel’s Reichman College have arrange a faculty to coach high-tech professionals, providing programs in laptop programming, gross sales and information evaluation amongst different topics, the college mentioned on Monday.

Israel has a vibrant high-tech sector however a extreme scarcity of expert tech employees has led to tens of hundreds of unfilled positions.

The Faculty of Excessive Tech will subsidise college students from under-represented communities “together with ladies, the ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, members of the Ethiopian neighborhood and other people from the geo-social periphery and deprived socio-economic teams,” the college mentioned.

“We consider that a wide range of voices, opinions and views enriches Israeli high-tech and its developments,” mentioned Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel.

Programs are being rolled out over the subsequent few weeks and college students finishing programs on the college will earn credit score in the direction of a level, the college mentioned.

Programs, which will likely be held on the Google Campus in Tel Aviv and the Reichman College within the Israeli metropolis of Herzliya, will likely be provided in programming, software program testing, enterprise improvement, gross sales and information evaluation and Google will present scholarships to individuals.

The expertise sector accounts for about 15% of Israel’s financial exercise and a whole bunch of recent startups are based every year. Within the first half of 2022, Israeli tech companies raised practically $10 billion in investments, in accordance with the Israeli Tech Overview.

Google has been stepping up funding in Israel.