Academic institutions face multiple challenges in equipping learners with ICT skills.
Not only must these academic institutions identify meaningful vocational ICT courses that help their students pass with flying colours, they must also equip their educators with the time and resources to develop and deliver these curricula effectively.
The question is; how do academic institutions achieve these goals? The answer lies in the Microsoft IT Academy (ITA) Programme, which has taken a huge step to help bridge the skills gap in South Africa by building on its stated goals to upskill, certify and employ.
Managed in this region by Intersoft, the ITA Programme offers rich resources, structured lesson plans, international curriculum and certifications, within a blended learning solution that brings training to life in the classroom - all at a heavily subsidised cost.
So how can you take advantage of this very low-cost, broad-based, high benefit education?
Intersoft is holding three free half-day workshops:
* Cape Town - Tuesday, 24 July, at Radisson Hotel
* Durban - Wednesday, 25 July, at Protea Edward Hotel
* Johannesburg - Thursday, 26 July, at Microsoft SA's head office
These workshops are for educators from any educational institution. In each workshop, you will find out how to become a qualified instructor, with dynamic curriculum, using multiple resources to support the content, including online Web support, lesson guides, tests, PowerPoint slides and official Microsoft learning manuals for your learners.
You will be able to attract individuals to stay in or go back to school to improve skills or pursue a career in ICT. As the workshops will demonstrate, your students gain tremendously. Not only does the ITA framework provide a consistent instruction and certification process that accelerates a student's entry into the workforce (or advancement of their current career), your students will learn on an international standard that, on passing, secures international certification, valid anywhere in the world.
Join one of these workshops and see how you can establish an edge over your competition by differentiating yourself from the others. To reserve your seat in an ITA workshop, contact Nkgadi Monyebodi on (011) 325 2643 or e-mail claire@intersoft.co.za today for your free invite.
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Intersoft, founded in 1986, is South Africa's leading computer book and customised courseware supplier, as well as Microsoft's partner to manage its IT Academy Programme in all African countries, south of the equator. Intersoft represents John Wiley (including "...for Dummies", Wrox Press and Sybex imprints), O'Reilly, Microsoft Press, McGraw Hill and Computer Step. Intersoft publishes and distributes quality IT, professional technical reference and consumer textbooks, and manuals, and customised or aligned learnership material and customised end-user and soft skills courseware for all user levels. Intersoft's wide range of product makes it the perfect one-stop shop solutions provider. Intersoft is a CompTIA Gold Class material provider and a founder member of Proudly South African.