The 700 graduates of the first generation of Jóvenes a Programar received their degrees this Friday at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU).
The nine-month course of the Ceibal Plan, created at the behest of President Tabaré Vázquez, enables people aged 17 to 26 to master the programming languages most in demand in one of the areas with the greatest development and zero unemployment in Uruguay.
The Jóvenes a Programar courses are aimed at employment in a highly demanded field and are aimed at students between 17 and 26 years of age, with an approved secondary school education, who must take an entrance test as part of the enrolment process.
At the end of the nine-month course, students learn to master the main programming languages demanded by the industry, such as .Net, Python, Genexus or WebUI, or what is necessary to work in testing.
The 700 students who participated in last year's courses received their certificates at a ceremony held at LATU's headquarters, which was attended by the Prosecretary of the Presidency, Juan Andrés Roballo, the Minister of Labour, Ernesto Murro, the Undersecretary of Education, Edith Moraes, and the President of Plan Ceibal, Miguel Brechner, among other authorities.
Roballo conveyed to the graduates the greetings of President Tabaré Vázquez, "who has had a very important impact since his first government (2005-2010) with the creation of the Ceibal Plan, the Agency for Electronic Government and the Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII)".
The hierarch highlighted as "one of the milestones that marked this instance", the open Council of Ministers of Rocha, in 2016, "where there was a permanent demand for this project".
Brechner announced that this year the programme expects to more than double the number of participants. "This course is important because it allows people who work to improve the quality of their work and allows them to become enthusiastic about this area in which there is full employment in Uruguay," he said.
In the centres of the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP), there are almost 6,000 young people in the computer baccalaureate, said the president of this organisation, Wilson Netto, who promised to study the educational trajectories of these students for the accreditation of knowledge.
For his part, Minister Murro reported that the National Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (Inefop) contributed 800,000 dollars for the development of Jóvenes a Programar. "It is money that Uruguayan workers and employers are contributing in solidarity," he said.
The programme is promoted by the Ceibal Plan and has the support of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies, the Inter-American Development Bank and Inefop. (Source: Secretariat of Institutional Communication)
Source: La República
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