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UCD to offer jobless and SMES cut-price computer classes | The Post
UCD to offer jobless and SMES cut-price computer classes
03 January 2010 By Adrian Weckler
UCD is to offer cut-price computer programming classes to small businesses and unemployed IT programmers.
The courses, which will be run in February and March and will target Java skills, will each last for one week and will be limited to 100 people per class.
‘‘We feel that a lot of [SMEs] might not have training budgets and might have staff on short-time," said John Murphy, a professor at UCD and founder of Crovan, a start-up UCD campus company.
‘‘The course is aimed at programmers in other programming languages, or Java, and will bring them up to speed on Java for the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) examination." Murphy said that this course would cost €75.
The initiative follows a similar series of classes given last summer by UCD and Crovan for unemployed people.
According to Murphy, 500 people took part in the summer scheme. Murphy said that UCD would add a third course to its schedule.
‘‘We are offering to run a new course aimed at the unemployed, but if SMEs wanted to send people, there would be no issue here," he said. ‘‘This one is not about programming, but is aimed at IT professionals who want to learn more about Java, and is aimed at the Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA) examination."
Murphy said this course would cost €45. He said that any small firms or unemployed IT programmers who wished to avail of either course could apply online at
Crovan.
