ICT Academy of Kerala will implement Oracle Academy’s computer science programmes across 60 institutes in Kerala over the next two years.
The ICT Academy is a social enterprise created in public-private partnership mode for skilling the youth and improving employability opportunities.
The company is supported by the Centre and partnered by the State Government as also the ICT industry.
Oracle Academy is Oracle’s flagship programme in education philanthropy, providing education institutions worldwide with software, curriculum, support, and certification resources.
Today, there are more than 2.2 million students in 96 countries who benefit from Oracle Academy. In India, it supports more than 2.4 lakh in over 1,300 educational institutions.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed to integrate Oracle Academy curriculum into the educational programmes of colleges in the State.
Oracle Academy’s hosted technology, training, support and certification resources will be made available to students and faculty here.
Java programmes
Additionally, 120 faculty members are scheduled to undergo training to help put 6,000 students from 60 institutes on the pathway to future IT careers over the next two years.
Oracle will facilitate a ‘train-the-trainer’ course to ramp up faculty representatives as instructors for six courses.
These include creating Java programmes with Greenfoot, Java fundamentals, Java programming, database design, database programming with SQL and programming with PL/SQL.
Once trained and certified, this faculty is expected to use the Oracle Academy infrastructure to train other members.