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SAS, a leader in data and AI, is making significant investments in AI across the UK through its partnership with the UK government’s skills initiative, an expected investment in its Glasgow R&D Centre of more than £20m, and partnerships with universities and other organisations to improve access to its AI software.
Since its origins 50 years ago, SAS has always held a strong belief that development of skills is essential to thriving economies and it has long championed AI and data skills development in the UK through its evolving initiatives and partnerships.
UK Government AI Skills Programme
The UK Government has announced plans for a major expansion of its AI upskilling programme to impact 10 million workers by 2030. Every adult in the UK is eligible to take free, newly benchmarked courses to gain practical AI skills for work.
SAS is one of the founding partners making educational courses available for free, along with Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage and Salesforce. A number of new partners have also joined the programme, including British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Cisco, Cognizant, Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Department for Education (DfE) and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The UK is setting ambitious targets to ensure the workforce is adequately skilled, confident and ready to grasp the full opportunities of AI. This could create more higher-skilled jobs and free workers up from routine tasks, with increasing the adoption of AI potentially unlocking up to £140 billion in annual economic output.
A selection of industry-developed AI courses, newly available on the government’s AI Skills Hub, have been checked against Skills England’s AI foundation skills for work benchmark, with those who complete these courses receiving a virtual AI foundations badge.
UK Government and SAS Apprentice AI Skills Initiative
The UK Government, leading industry partners, and SAS are working together to provide apprentices free access to the skills that employers are actively looking for in data, analytics, and AI.
SAS is offering apprentices across the UK free access to its academic software and learning resources through SAS Skill Builder for Students. They will benefit from hands-on experience with real analytics and AI tools, guided learning content, and practical skills that can be used straight away.
Find out more at www.sas.com/uk/apprentice.
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