The Innovation Hub, a subsidiary of Blue IQ, saw 25 students graduate from the CoachLab leadership programme last Thursday.
Focusing on the fields of ICT and engineering, the programme runs annually from March to November, says Blue IQ. Postgraduate students participating in the programme are required to work on predetermined projects, which are supervised by industry experts.
education into industry, as students are exposed to innovation while they work on industry projects,” she added.
Blue IQ CEO Amanda Nair says the programme is aligned with the postgraduate programmes at participating universities. Academic partners include the University of South Africa, the Tshwane University of Technology, the University of Pretoria, the University of Johannesburg, the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering, and the University of the Witwatersrand.
The Innovation Hub CEO McLean Sibanda says the target for 2012 is to enrol 50 students. According to Sibanda, the CoachLab programme was launched in 2001 as a pilot activity of “The Hub2B” with support from the University of Pretoria, Epi-Use and The Innovation Hub as the facilitator.
He adds that the programme's success led to a second CoachLab site. Moreover, negotiations are being concluded to establish CoachLab at the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the University of the North West.
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