The Prince Sultan University, based in Saudi Arabia, has joined forces with Red Hat to provide graduates with increased skills.<\/p>\n
The university is collaborating with Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, to create the King Salman Education for Employment Programme.<\/p>\n
The Red Hat Academy is an open source, web-deployed and web-managed education programme designed to provide turnkey curriculum materials to academic institutions to start and sustain an open source and Linux curriculum programme.<\/p>\n
The King Salman Education for Employment Programme at the university supports recent college graduates who need more practical training to compete in today\u2019s job market.<\/p>\n
Last month HRH Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh, laid the cornerstone for the new King Salman Centre for Education for Employment building at Prince Sultan University.<\/p>\n
This centre is seen as an important national development project that contributes to building a generation capable of achieving the objectives of economic development in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The Red Hat Academy turns academic institutions into centres for enterprise-ready talent by supplying them with training.<\/p>\n
For more than a decade, the academy has supplied high schools and institutions of higher education worldwide that have required hands-on instruction, performance-based testing, and instructor support.<\/p>\n
The academy\u2019s web-based curriculum helps create competencies through hands-on, performance-based learning and testing.<\/p>\n
Eng. Ibrahim Al Ghemlas, Director of the Community Services and Continuing Education Centre at Prince Sultan University, said: \u201cRed Hat is a multinational software company providing open source solutions to the enterprise community.<\/p>\n
“They will be collaborating with us to offer multiple certification programs in System Administration and OpenStack Administration.<\/p>\n
“Red Hat is an exciting addition to our King Salman Education for Employment academies and we look forward to a long and beneficial collaboration with Red Hat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ken Goetz, vice president, Global Training and Certification, Red Hat, said: \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to have Prince Sultan University join us in this growing Red Hat Academy Program.<\/p>\n
“To help students learn about Red Hat technologies and solutions and establish in-demand open source skills, we work closely with a variety of educational institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to continued collaboration with Prince Sultan University as an important member of Red Hat\u2019s training and certification ecosystem.\u201d \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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