Prince Sultan University has announced that it has collaborated with Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, to create the King Salman Education for Employment Programme Red Hat Academy. The Red Hat Academy is an open source, web-deployed and web-managed education programme that is designed to provide turnkey curriculum materials to academic institutions to start and sustain an open source and Linux curriculum programme.
The King Salman Education for Employment Programme at Prince Sultan University supports recent college graduates who need more practical training to compete in today’s job market.
In fact, just last month HRH Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh, laid the cornerstone for the new King Salman Centre for Education for Employment building at Prince Sultan University. This centre is seen as an important national development project that contributes to building a generation capable of achieving the objectives of economic development in Saudi Arabia.
The Red Hat Academy turns academic institutions into centres for enterprise-ready talent by outfitting them with Red Hat training. For more than a decade, the Red Hat Academy has supplied high schools and institutions of higher education worldwide that have the required technology and support environments, with hands-on instruction, curriculum, labs, performance-based testing and instructor support. The Red Hat Academy’s web-based curriculum helps create competencies through hands-on, performance-based learning and testing.
Eng Ibrahim Al Ghemlas, Director of Community Services and the Continuing Education Centre at Prince Sultan University said, “Red Hat is a multinational software company providing open source solutions to the enterprise community. It will be collaborating with us to offer multiple certification programmes in System Administration and OpenStack Administration. Red Hat is an exciting addition to our King Salman Education for Employment academies and we look forward to a long and beneficial collaboration with Red Hat.”
“We’re pleased to have Prince Sultan University join us in this growing Red Hat Academy Programme,” added Ken Goetz, Vice President, Global Training and Certification, Red Hat. “To help students learn about Red Hat technologies and solutions, and establish in-demand open source skills, we work closely with a variety of educational institutions. We look forward to continued collaboration with Prince Sultan University as an important member of Red Hat’s training and certification ecosystem.”