Skills Online Bangladesh Initiative is a year long skill development program implemented in Bangladesh by Better Future for Women in partnership with Commonwealth of Learning and Silicon Valley based e-learning platform, Udemy. All courses are provided at free of cost.
Skills Online Bangladesh Initiative works with local organizations, private training centers, educational institutions and employers to close skill gaps for in-demand jobs responding to employer and industry needs through directly supporting youth and adult of any gender to participate and complete skill and professional development courses offered by online learning platform such as Udemy.
BACKGROUND:
More than 2 million youth enter the workforce every year in Bangladesh. Many of them lack the relevant skill-set and training to compete on the job market at home and overseas. Bangladesh government’s national skill development policies strongly focus on enhancing skills of the youth to better prepare for the job market and to help them secure livelihoods. The project is aligned with Bangladesh’s National ICT Policy and skill development initiatives that promotes the use of new training tools such as ICT to build a skillful workforce
The project is generously funded by Commonwealth of Learning.
TARGET LEARNERS
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Those who are in employment, but would like to engage in re-skilling or up-skilling;
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Those who wish to gain skills to strengthen their mini- and micro-enterprises;
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Aspiring entrepreneurs who are interested in initiating start-up ventures.
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Those who are interested to gain new skills to enter into job market
HOW THIS WORKS
BFW will review your application and if you are eligible for the program, you will receive an invitation to join Udemy for Business e-learning platform. Each learner will be required to complete at least 2 courses.
Submission of application doesnt guarantee participation in the program. A selection committee will review your details submitted through this application form. If you are selected you will receive a notification through your email or mobile phone.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
The selected learners will be have access to over 3500 e-learning courses ( accessible through smart phone, desktop/laptop ) under the following categories.
Leadership & Management , Marketing , Office Productivity ,Cloud Computing , Data Science , Design, Development
Finance & Accounting , Human Resources , IT Operations , Personal Development , Project Management & Operations , Sales
CERTIFICATION
Commonwealth of Learning- Udemy certificate will be provided upon completion of the skill development courses.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or need additional information on our program, please email us at
skillsonline@betterfuture4women.org.bdTo learn more about Skills Online Bangladesh Initiative and Better Future for Women:
www.betterfuture4women.org.bd Also visit our social media page :
FB page at :
www.facebook.com/betterfuture4womenLinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/company/future4women/Twitter: /future4women
ABOUT COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING
Hosted by the Government of Canada and headquartered in Burnaby, Canada, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is the world’s only intergovernmental organisation solely concerned with the promotion and development of distance education and open learning. COL was created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. To learn more about COL:
https://www.col.org/ ABOUT UDEMY
Udemy.com is an online learning platform aimed at professional adults and students. Udemy, a portmanteau of you + academy, has more than 30 million students and 50,000 instructors teaching courses in over 60 languages. There have been over 245 million course enrollments. Students and instructors come from 190+ countries and 2/3 of students are located outside of the U.S. Udemy also has over 4,000 enterprise customers and 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Udemy for employee upskilling (Udemy for Business).
Students take courses largely as a means of improving job-related skills. Some courses generate credit toward technical certification. Udemy has made a special effort to attract corporate trainers seeking to create coursework for employees of their company. As of 2019, there are more than 130,000 courses on the website.
