In addition to its established bursary-loan programme, LUSO Computer Institute, the computer programmer training company, will offer all graduates that achieve 80% or more in all their exams, guaranteed placement upon completion of the course.
Further taking into consideration the keenness of individuals from the previously disadvantaged sector to study programming, LUSO has decided to do away with the evaluation fees and is now offering free evaluation tests till 12 December 2003. The institute will also organise an open day on 23 January 2004 to allow aspiring programmers to seek career counselling from experts and interact with the past students.
The service forms part of LUSO`s tailored education offering that takes non-IT literate students all the way through the mechanics and art of programming, life skills and finally working.
"Because programming is just one of the skills required in the software development industry, LUSO also offers its students life skills training, preparing them to tackle the corporate market and integrate with its cultures," says Izane Cloete, marketing director of LUSO Computer Institute. "As an IT professional you cannot be a clock watcher and must have a sense of urgency, meet deadlines and be on standby when needed. There is no better exposure to reinforce the learning process than to perform and execute tasks that form part of the real work environment."
LUSO graduates are productive practically within the first week of their employment, making them particularly desirable to the local financial, retail and services industries, says Marinus van Sandwyk, chairman of LUSO.
Prior to acquiring the company, Van Sandwyk staffed his development business with graduates solely from LUSO, because of their levels of productivity and breadth of understanding of the IT environment.
It is due to the unique curriculum and its implementation that now sees students developing in C, C++ and C#, as well as Java and COBOL, that graduates are sought after.
LUSO students develop in the region of 60 programs during their course and write tests and exams every week, ensuring they can hit the ground running. They are also not confined to programming environments from a single vendor, such as Borland and Microsoft, but are capable of programming for different platforms and different operating environments, making them more flexible, with a greater understanding of systems development.
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