Huawei introduces free home study for students

The Huawei ICT Academy programme has introduced a new initiative - Huawei Study at Home Programme - for Ghanaian students currently at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The programme, being offered free of charge, focuses on equipping students with the needed technology and educational materials to enable them to take the Huawei ICT certifications programme online while at home during this pandemic period.

According to the Enterprise Director at Huawei Ghana, Mr Geoffrey Li, the initiative would give students interested in Information Communication Technologies (ICT), the opportunity to expand their scope.

A release from Huawei Technologies (Ghana) S.A. Limited quoted Mr LI as saying, the programme “will also offer a seamless training and learning experience and certify excellent students to make them industry ready even when universities and schools are closed.”

Mr Li said, “As a way to further motivate the students to gain some certification during this period, we are offering students who enrol on the courses, free data with the top five excelling students set to be rewarded after the courses are closed.”

Structure

According to Huawei, all classes were being held remotely online and courses were instructed by trained Ghana lecturers.

Courses that will be covered during the training period include, Routing and Switching (HCIA-R&S), Cloud Computing and AI (HCIA-Cloud & AI), Security and WLAN.

“All these courses are professional certification courses and students who pass will be certified,” Mr Li said.

He explained that students would be trained on how to operate and use Huawei equipment to develop talents with practical skills for the ICT industry and communities.

Relevance

Adding his voice to the relevance of the programme to students, the Vice President of Ghana Technology University College, Prof. Abeiku Blankson, said while academia focused mostly on theory, the Huawei ICT Academy offered professional certification and was structured to give students a feel of what actually happened on the field.

“Our partnership with Huawei on this is mostly driven by our desire to give our students the opportunity to gain some necessary skills while getting them to be market-ready and the innovative Huawei Study At Home programme will allow them to do that from the comfort of their homes during this period where schools are closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.” Prof. Blankson added.