Lead City Partner The Cyberschuul to Enhance Telecom Training

Lead City University Ibadan and The Cyberschuul Lagos are currently implementing a partnership deal to impart graduating students of computer and electronics in Nigeria with additional training in telecommunications.
According to information from Engr. Titi Omo-Ettu, director , The Cybershuul, the pilot scheme will soon be completed as 21 out of the 30 hours training have been satisfactorily completed.
 He also said that Telecom Answers Associates, founders of The Cyberschuul, had a few years back contested the argument by some extremist employers who made claims that Nigerian graduates are unemployable while Telecom Answers Associates’  position had been that content of training in universities were excellent but have merely not responded fast enough to making present graduates immediately relevant to the needs of rapidly evolving telecommunications industry. This lapse in Telecom Answers Associates’ view could be corrected by a slight modification in the content and style of training to include materials in telecommunications business.
Further, Omo-Ettu said Lead City University mid-2008 approached Telecom Answers Associates on the matter and that the resources of The Cybershuul were consulted to supply the ideas missing in graduating students of computer and electronics at the university.
35 graduating students are benefiting from the pilot training programme which exposed the trainees to areas in traditional telecommunication such as wired and wireless systems, mobile communication standards and emerging technologies such as Wi-Fi Wimax and internet applications. They were also introduced to industry management tools such as number portability, co-location and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure as well as convergence issues.
The program does not include a Train-the-Trainers component as the concept is to use current industry practitioners to deliver the stuff to the students on a continuous basis.