{"id":937281,"date":"2025-06-09T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937281"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:39:52","slug":"uk-launches-ai-skills-drive-for-workers-and-schoolchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/09\/uk-launches-ai-skills-drive-for-workers-and-schoolchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"UK launches AI skills drive for workers and schoolchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London: The UK government is to team up with tech-giants including Google, Microsoft and Amazon to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to announce Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Starmer is also set to unveil \u00a3187 million ($253 million) in funding to help develop tech abilities for one million secondary school students, as part of its &#8220;TechFirst&#8221; programme to bring AI learning into classrooms and communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: The UK government is to team up with tech-giants including Google, Microsoft and Amazon to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to announce Monday. Starmer is also set to unveil \u00a3187 million ($253 million) in funding to help develop tech abilities for one million secondary school students, as part of its &#8220;TechFirst&#8221; programme to bring AI learning into classrooms and communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}