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Oracle Graduate Leadership Programme Prepares South African Youths for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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03/19/2019
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The Oracle Graduate Leadership Programme is spread over a period of one year and offers a blended learning approach, combining classroom training with e-learning and structured on-the-job training. Oracle South Africa sponsors the full cost of training for all programme participants.

Twenty one previously disadvantaged (PDI) South African students, of which twelve are female, have graduated from the Oracle Graduate Leadership Programme. Now in its fifth year, the programme focuses on equipping PDI students with specialised IT and leadership skills that prepare them for a career in the IT industry.

According to Oracle, the programme takes place over the course of one year, and it offers a learning approach, combining classroom training with e-learning and structured on-the-job training. Furthermore, the company covers for the full cost of training for all programme participants.


See also: Vodacom South Africa Offers Apple Device Enrollment Programme


“Every year our programme takes in previously disadvantaged graduates to address the critical skills shortage in our industry. Any drive towards closing the skills gap and addressing unemployment should be tied to the fourth industrial revolution or we risk our country becoming uncompetitive and irrelevant both locally and globally. By developing the hard and soft skills needed to succeed in the digital world, we are creating a future skills pipeline for Oracle and the wider ICT community,” says Niral Patel, Managing Director and Technology Leader for Oracle South Africa.

“Before we start training these youngsters, we ask our partners and customers what they need and then build a programme that provides the right skills, relevant for the market. This actively and strategically closes the skills gap all the while providing much-needed employment,” says Patel. “It is satisfying to look back at the success of this programme over the past few years, the graduates have come in, have been upskilled, sent into the market and have found relevant jobs with our partners and customers.”

The programme has successfully delivered 106 graduates to date, with many of them securing permanent employment with Oracle partner companies and other organisations. Enrolment for the 2019 programme has commenced with 28 students already confirmed, with an even split of females and males. This year’s program started on 15th March and will end on 1st of April.

 

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