Mousebelt is a Blockchain accelerator that has relationships with 65 student Blockchain community groups and works with 14 universities in the US and UK.Recently it has been offering programs to sponsor undergraduates and PhD students at UC (University of California) Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis (near Sacramento in California) to meet student demand.
Universities are increasingly offering Blockchain courses, as detailed by the website from Accounting Degree Review, in which were listed 10 different universities - just in the USA. For those readers looking for universities in the UK, hopefully, these links will be helpful:
However, it is not just the academics who are looking to upskill the populous on Blockchain skills. The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the creation of a global initiative to improve collaboration on technology (such as Blockchain) between regulators and companies, according to an official press release.
Meanwhile, ClickAcademy in Asia has launched the ‘Certified Blockchain Professional Programme’ in Singapore, developed by the Institute of iBusiness Council (IIB Council). The IIB Council is a division of the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity technical certification bodies. The course fees are 90% subsidised, to support Singapore citizens by keeping them up to speed with Blockchain technology.
Indeed, CoinBase’s annual survey on Blockchain education, which surveys 50 top universities globally, found that 56% (compared to 42% in 2018) now offer at least one Crypto/Blockchain course. Also, twice as many students reported having taken a crypto or Blockchain course than had in 2018, and nearly 70% of crypto and Blockchain classes are in departments outside of computer science, including law, the humanities, and economics.
Thus, we can see more universities are responding to the demand from companies for staff offering Blockchain skills since this technology is increasingly being incorporated into organisations across the globe.
