In order to generate job placement in technology areas, the National Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (Inefop) signed an agreement with the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (Cuti) to offer a thousand places to people who have a minimum of 4th year of high school, to study through the virtual platform, courses in programming.
The project is called b-IT and is constituted as a training program for employment in Information Technology (IT) aimed at people throughout the country who are over 18 years of age. In the first phase, up to 1,000 young people and/or workers in the process of retraining in programming will be trained online, through modules with a diversified offer of courses that will have different lengths and hourly loads depending on the career that each student selects.
"It is a very important agreement in which 1 million 300 thousand dollars will be invested, 1 million is financed by Inefop and the rest is a contribution from Cuti and is aimed at a thousand people who do not necessarily have to be young people. They are virtual courses that will last six months," Eduardo Pereyra, General Director of Inefop, told the newspaper LA REPÚBLICA.
He details that this is a first module, "but the idea is that the course will continue to develop over the coming years, it is a very important sector that currently has zero unemployment and let's say that it is a type of cross-cutting training that benefits and gives job opportunities to people who develop it, so we are very happy with the signing of the same.
Inclusion
Pereyra assumes that it will be a great opportunity to train people with disabilities, "since it is a policy of the institute to promote inclusion and in this case there is an important participation of people who have had difficulties to achieve job placement, here we provide support and everyone can participate in the training for free".
"There is a commitment of the Chamber to promote the employment of people who go through the courses, the quota is not defined, but there will be a very significant number who will go to the labor field," added the director of Inefop.
He also explained that Inefop has two other programs that are aimed at the technology sector, one is Youth to program with the Ceibal Plan in which they finance a thousand quotas, then there is another agreement with the Software Testing Center (CES) which also has to do with programming and are funded by Inefop.
Until 2017, says Pereyra, "we trained 134 thousand people, including the National Employment Board (Junae), which was the previous denomination that this institute had, with this would be a 400 thousand trainings".
Signing of the agreement
During the signing of the agreement between Inefop and Cuti, participated the Minister of Labor and Security, Ernesto Murro, who highlighted the work of Inefop in this administration, referring to the multiplication in the number of beneficiaries served year after year and that it is the type of institution that the country needs.
"This agreement offers a space to integrate more women, people who want to retrain or are disabled and other groups with difficulties in accessing employment," said Murro during the signing of the agreement on February 19.
The Programming courses will be given in two phases and it is hoped to be able to fund the second phase for next year with the people who continue studying. Phase I culminates in a "Programmer" certification, while Phase II (next year) culminates in an "IT Analyst" certification.
Although the agreement will have a total duration of 15 months, students will have nine months of courses and one month of evaluation and monitoring of projects. It is estimated that the dedication requirement will be 15 hours per week, both online and offline.
Important milestone
The president of Cuti, Leonardo Loureiro, acknowledged that "it was quite difficult to reach a content and a form that was good for everyone," but said that this is an "important milestone. He said that in the sector "we can not take work because we do not have the people to carry it forward", so it is "important to seek new forms of training. In that sense, he stressed that "sometimes the talent already exists and what we need is to reconvert it". He also considered that "there are many people interested in working in an industry like ours, which today is changing the future".
According to him, the chamber did a study in which it detected that "there are many people, in different parts of the country, who finish quite interesting studies and who could well continue or deepen in IT".
For Loureiro, this project, which was initiated by the late former president of Cuti, Álvaro Lame, is strategic, since the fact that the training is entirely online "makes it 100% inclusive", and "gives the opportunity to many people who are in other parts of the country and who do not have access to training of the kind we need".
The engineer also stressed that the proposal is in addition to the existing educational offer, and considered that it is "a complementary activity", since this program is not exclusive with others. For those who are interested, the registration form is already available at bit.cuti.org.uy.
Source: La República
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