Google announces 100,000 scholarships for online certificates in data analytics, project management

UnixGuy

The tech giant has committed to funding 100,000 need-based scholarships for individuals enrolled in any of these career certificate programs and will be awarding over $10 million in grants to YWCA, NPower and JFF — three nonprofits that partner with Google to provide workforce development to women, veterans and underrepresented Americans.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/google-announces-certificates-in-data-project-management-and-ux.html

yoba222

Nice find! The project management and data analytics certs sound decent. I'd be a bit reluctant to learn UX from Google though.

DatabaseHead

Thanks @UnixGuy for posting this.....   Sounds like it's designed for freshers or career changers.  Not that, that's a bad idea, sounds great.  I put myself on the list just to see the syllibus once it comes out.  

Thanks again.

UnixGuy

The interesting thing is that the certs will be counted as the equivalent of a 4 years university degree. We will be seeing more of this in the future as more universities go online, the education sector is well and truly disrupted.

Azazello

UnixGuy said:

The interesting thing is that the certs will be counted as the equivalent of a 4 years university degree.

The article doesn't explain it properly, but what it means is that Google will consider these (Google-funded) certs as degree-equivalents for Google job vacancies.

I like this idea, as Alphabet Inc. is typical of most companies that discriminate against non-degree candidates. (Tech companies are the worst offenders.)

I wish more companies followed this initiative. Even if they linked their hiring to training they funded or invested in.