Last week Huawei, a global China-based IT product and solution provider, inaugurated its Russian series of educational programs for telecom-related academia and markets by opening two pioneering Network Academies in Moscow and St. Petersburg, ComNews.ru reported.
The new vocational training programs, hosted by Moscow’s MIREA University of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation and St. Petersburg’s Bonch-Bruevich University of Telecommunications, are the first in what is expected to evolve into a chain of Huawei Academies in other as yet unspecified Russian regions.
The Chinese firm has reportedly provided $500,000 worth of lab equipment for the St. Petersburg site. The cost of outfitting the Moscow program has yet to be detailed.
ComNews.ru quoted Dmitry Alferov, Huawei Russia’s vice president, as saying that “we observe a certain deficit of a skilled cadre for telecom operators.” He hopes that Network Academies will help Russian students, professors and market operators adopt advanced solutions from the world’s telecom majors.
So far, Huawei has opened more than 50 such Network Academies across the globe.
