Refugees open the door to the metaverse in Britain

DAN.IT, which offers live online IT courses, is launching in the UK and hopes to expand to the European Union
DAN.IT, which offers live online IT courses, is launching in the UK and hopes to expand to the European Union

A Ukrainian education business that teaches students IT skills in the “metaverse” is launching in the UK, weeks after its staff were made to flee the country by the Russian invasion.

DAN.IT offers live online courses in areas including data analytics, machine learning and programming in a 360- degree virtual space. Its aim is to help plug the skills gap in the tech sector, with learning models inspired by those used in Mamram, the Israel Defence Force’s elite computer unit.

Founded six years ago in Kyiv, DAN.IT graduates 1,250 students a year in Ukraine and Azerbaijan, with 73 per cent finding work in the technology industry shortly afterwards. It will begin rolling out its courses in Britain from today and it hopes to expand into