Education Dive – Autumn A. Arnett
“Cisco’s U.S. public sector senior vice president, Larry Payne, said in a recent conversation with Education Dive that the company saw opportunity was lacking “for students who couldn’t pursue that four-year engineering or computer science degree … to enter into the tech industry.” Payne said the company recognized it as a void it could fill to help train future workers. “If we’re going to introduce people to our industry, we can’t just expect everyone to come out of a four-year college with a computer science degree,” he said.” (more)