Article: IBM academic initiative helps plug skill gaps.(FOCUS: Education: Online vs. Offline)

IBM announced that 150 colleges and universities worldwide offer educational resources on the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe through its academic initiative launched in 2003.

The program provides students and professors with hands-on access to the mainframe, curriculum, industry experts and training for students and faculty. The goal is to help students in developing practical mainframe skills to find jobs quickly upon graduation and in help businesses replace retiring mainframe experts. IBM has pledged in work with schools to reach a target of 20,000 mainframe literate professionals in the market by 2010. To meet this goal, IBM hopes to double the number of ...

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