Recent Posts by Jane Richardson

To continue to serve member educators, Oracle Academy in Italy recently held a virtual online course, Programming with PL/SQL, for 23 educators and professors in March 2020. To support our members in Italy, where all schools and universities have been closed, the training course was delivered online with support from Oracle Academy instructors, as opposed to an online and in-class format. Attendees then were able to participate safely from the comfort of their own homes. The...

On February 9, 2020, a “Digital Girls” event supported by Oracle Academy took place in the Junior Achievement StartUp Hambar in Sofia Tech Park. The event was attended by 30 young women ages 18 to 29 who are interested in IT, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.  Our thanks to our Oracle Bulgaria colleagues (pictured) who gave inspiring presentations during the event: Velina Topalova - Public Sector Account Manager Daniela Milanova - Cloud Technology Customer Advisor Nadia...

  Oracle Academy in Saudi Arabia is a proud supporter of the King Saud University (KSU) Skills Development Department (in Arabic), which educates students and assists them in becoming “job ready” using the latest technology skills development programs available. The university has invested time and effort forming the “Jahez” program, which means “Ready.” This program has more than 14 faculty, administrators, and staff to deliver and manage it. It runs every year and includes an...

In the first week of February 2020, Oracle in Ireland welcomed 40 Transition Year students to the annual Transitional Year (TY) program run by the Human Resources team. The participants are all family members of Oracle employees. This week-long program is jam-packed with insightful activities hosted by numerous lines of business, including Oracle Direct, Business Development Group, Oracle Academy, Human Resources & Recruitment, Finance, and Manufacturing & Distribution, to...

In collaboration with Oracle Women’s Leadership and Wtech—Association for Women in Technology, Oracle Academy collaborated to organize the Information Age & Emerging Technologies Conference, which brought together 60 university students, faculty, women leaders in technology and Oracle executives in Istanbul on February 4, 2020. The next wave of digital transformation is changing the traditional ways of doing business and employment in all industries. Therefore, it is important...

Oracle Academy in Saudi Arabia is building strong relationships with academia to enable young students who wish to develop a career in the technology sector, to align with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. A recent event and a great example of collaboration was with the Princess Norah in Abdulrahman University, where Oracle Academy enabled more than 800 national female students to study Oracle Database using our online curriculum. “In collaboration with Oracle Academy,...

On November 18-19, 2019, Oracle Academy attended for the first time the EdEX MENA  education conference in Dubai. I was delighted to see more than 1,000 educators attend the event and show a great interest in the Oracle Academy program.  I had the opportunity to present at the EdTech Leaders seminar and share the findings of the latest report on the importance of computing education for the next generation: Beyond Tech: The Rising Demand for IT Skills in Non-Tech Industries.  The r...

The picturesque Croatian city on the mouth of river Krka, Šibenik, is known for its beautiful Renaissance cathedral of St. James (pictured) as well as for being the oldest native Croatian city on the Adriatic coast. The city hosted from November 6-8, 2019, the 21st CARNET Users Conference, supported and sponsored again this year by Oracle Academy.  Known for two decades simply as “CUC” this event, organized by the Croatian Academic and Research Network (or CARNET), has grown into...

I was delighted to attend the first ever Oracle Academy Faculty Day hosted by the Higher College of Technology (HCT), Muscat, Oman, on November 21, 2019. More than 100 participants from different colleges and universities attended the event, as well as participants from the Ministry of Manpower, the Bank Dhofar, the Public Authority for Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Health, the DGHS, and the Ministry of Legal Affairs.  I had the opportunity to speak on the subject of “Advancin...