UAE aspirants find accessing tech knowledge or upskilling too costly: IBM study

Dubai: Want to polish your tech knowledge? Or upskill?

If you do, chances are you will be put off by the steep cost of padding up on the knowledge and skills needed. That’s according to findings in a survey commissioned by IBM. Apart from the cost of these programs, respondents cited concerns that career options may not be available to them. In the UAE, the responses offered a mixed set of results with:

“STEM education has never been more important for the achievement of the country’s Net Zero 2050 strategic initiative,” said Shukri Eid, IBM’s General Manager for Gulf, Levant and Pakistan.

The findings were based on more than 14,000 interviews of students, people seeking new jobs, and those seeking to change careers, located across 13 countries.