Schneider Electric widens tech-focused education centre networkFrench energy management and automation company Schneider Electric is taking steps to address unemployment and skills shortages in South Africa and Egypt through public-private partnerships it has entered into in both countries. In South Africa, the company has added four higher learning institutions to its French South African Schneider Electric Education Centres (FSASEC) network. "What we are doing is establishing tripartite agreements in South Africa between Schneider Electric South Africa, supported by the Schneider Electric Foundation in France, the French Ministry of Education and local tertiary institutions. "We received a hundred thousand euros worth of Schneider Electric training equipment that has been donated to the training centre by Schneider Electric. Dalglish said Schneider Electric engineers will train teachers from the institutions that the company has partnered with through the company's Schneider Electric Teachers Programme.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 06, 2017 09:45 UTC