Puerto Rico Department of Education officials announced Monday the start of a $15 million technological upgrade program that aims to improve the infrastructure for Internet connectivity at the island’s 1,384 schools over the next five years.
Janssen Pharmaceutical launched the Bridge to Employment (BTE) Program for 57 sophomores in Manatí and Gurabo, as part of its Early Talent Strategy to engage millennials with the life sciences manufacturing sector.
Some 7,000 Puerto Rican professionals from a gamut of sectors applied for a Department of Education-backed free conversational English course that had only 550 spaces available, showing the need for this type of education to language skills, officials from America Aponte & Associates, the company hired to teach the classes, said Tuesday.
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