Uzbekistan`s unemployed citizens to get free access to Coursera online courses

Leading international online education platform Coursera, in response to the unemployment crisis caused by COVID-19, announced the launch of the workforce recovery initiative to help governments around the world provide unemployed people with free access to 3,800 online courses.

According to the press-release, federal, state, and local governments can sign up until September 30, 2020, and those enrolled by then can learn until the end of the year. The U.S. states of Illinois, Arizona, and Oklahoma, as well as the governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, Greece, Malaysia, Panama, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan will be the first to make the initiative available. Over the next few weeks, more U.S. states and countries around the world will announce the initiative to their people.

Through the Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative, governments will be able to provide unemployed workers, many of whom lack financial resources, with job-relevant online learning. The 3,800 courses on Coursera, covering critical business, technology, and data science skills, are taught by some of the world’s leading universities like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Duke University, University of Michigan, Yale University, and more. The initiative also includes Professional Certificates from industry educators like the Google IT Support Professional Certificate, designed specifically to train people for high-demand jobs. The workforce initiative is part of the Coursera for Government offering, which was launched in 2017 to equip government employees and citizens with in-demand skills.