Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Coinciding with International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce that Coursera has joined forces with the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ten other partners to deliver a £20 million programme to improve girls’ access to education and employment in developing countries. The UK’s first education partnership of…
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By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer The pandemic profoundly reshaped the skills and employment landscape, accelerating digitization, displacing workers, and worsening social inequities. With 149 million new digital jobs projected globally by 2025, the skills gap will only continue to widen as businesses and workers face the challenge of reskilling amid rapid transformation. To address…
Anthony Tattersall, Vice President, EMEA Today, we proudly announce that Coursera is partnering with Saudi Arabia’s National eLearning Center (NELC), to launch a nationwide skill development program. Through this initiative, NELC, established as an independent entity run by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Council of Ministers, aims to further its mission of enhancing trust in…
By Kevin Mills, Head of Government Partnerships While vaccination rates climb and schools and businesses slowly open back up, unemployment rates remain a challenge, even in the largest economies. California has the largest GDP of any U.S. state, yet the technology epicenter is also tied for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 7.5%. The…