Lecturers get SAP skills

The Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Faculty of Business has teamed up with the SAP University Alliances programme to train university lecturers on SAP software.

On completion of the four-day course, which started this week, lecturers will plough back the knowledge to senior learners to train them in business processes and ICT.

Dr Ferdo Maree of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology says the university joined the alliance programme with the aim to boost graduate recruitment rates when students leave university.

Maree notes this is the first time the university is partaking in the programme, but not the last time. “This is going to be an ongoing and dynamic project. The students will increase their marketability by an incredible amount. We will take the postgraduate and senior students and expose them to SAP technology and encourage them to do qualifications, and it will empower them when they enter the job market.”

The SAP University Alliances programme is a global initiative which started in 2007, and provides university faculty members with the tools to teach students how technology can enable integrated business processes and strategic thinking. It also gives students the skills to add immediate value to the marketplace.

Growing the ecosystem

Max Fuzani, SAP Africa University Alliances manager, explains that the training programmes will enable users and SAP's partners to Ieverage ICT as drivers to grow the economy and improve sustainability within communities.

Fuzani says: “The reason for launching it in Africa was inspired by SAP's drive to invest in countries around the world where SAP is doing business. The second reason was to support our partners and customers in producing skills that could contribute to economic development and creating opportunities for young people to be trained, recruited and work in the SAP ecosystem.

“It was also in direct response to government asking the industry to play a meaningful role in up-skilling and promoting premiership among young people.

“We identified education training as one of the key areas where SAP could make a meaningful impact in creating opportunities for young people, and ensuring they are ready for the business world or public sector when they leave institutions of higher training,” says Fuzani.

Delegates from Namibia Polytechnic, University of the Western Cape, Free State University, as well as the Cape Peninsula University of Technology are involved in the four-day training programme.

There are plans to expand the training to Rwanda, Ghana, and Morocco, and as well as further in SA in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State.

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