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Amazon’s amazing learnership course for South Africans Updated
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Good news for the IT fanatics.
One of the biggest technology companies, Amazon, is now offering South Africans the opportunity to study a web course through them.
Amazon partnered with prominent institution, Explore Data Science Academy, to offer a one-year training learnership course.
The Explore Data Science Full Time Learnership course is an NQF level 5 learnership accredited by MICT SETA.
“Within months you will learn one of the highest paid and fastest growing skills in the Tech Industry: Data Science. This world-class course will teach you how to solve difficult problems using the latest advances in the Data Science realm,” reads the course description on the website.
The term has been in use for several decades but has gained currency as enterprises have become awash in a sea of data, funneled into databases by a wide variety of new customer-facing applications, particularly mobile apps. Data science, though, can be applied to small data sets as well as the “big data” generated by mass-scale applications.
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One of the newest data science programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa, opened in July 2019 with the goal of “blazing new trails in what is still largely uncharted territory,” according to Wim Delva, who was acting director at the school at the time. The programme highlights a multidisciplinary approach embracing subjects including mathematics, computer science, mathematical statistics and AI.
Amazon Web Services now offers an ‘intensive’ one-year training course in South Africa – here’s how to apply
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Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a partnership with Explore Data Science Academy to offer an intensive one-year training course.
The course provides a fundamental understanding of software development and cloud computing technologies, giving students a competitive edge, the group said.
Clive Charlton, head of solution architecture for the Sub-Saharan African Public Sector at AWS, said that 95% of students who graduate from the academy, find a job with an average starting income of R360,000 a year.
“The courses are extensive, and we also know that the cost of qualifications and training is often a barrier to young South Africans upskilling themselves.
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