Future leaders graduate from CoachLab programme
17 April 2013
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A group of 31 postgraduate students celebrated their graduation from the CoachLab leadership programme, in a ceremony at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria attended by Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Mr Nkosiphendule Kolisile.
Incepted to ease the transition from tertiary education into industry, CoachLab is a postgraduate leadership programme in the fields of ICT and engineering run from The Innovation Hub and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering.
CoachLab is fully sponsored by MICT (Media Information and Communication Technology) Seta and industry partners who use the programme as an opportunity to train graduates to employ in their core businesses. The programme runs annually from March to November and requires the postgraduate students to work on pre-determined projects supervised by industry experts in addition to providing students with work readiness assignments and mentorships.
In the year 2013/14, The Innovation Hub entered into partnership with the State Information Technology Agency for the development of unemployed ICT graduates. The Innovation Hub CEO McLean Sibanda said that this programme will impact 60 youths who have completed the initial 3-year qualification with the aim of exposing them to the ICT industry for future employment within the government ICT sector.
From Left to right: McLean Sibanda, CEO of The Innovation Hub; Siphiwe Ngwenya, acting group CEO of the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency; Barry Dwolatzky, director and CEO of JCSE,WITS; Matome Matthews Raphasha, Coachlab graduate; Charlton Philiso, senior manager at MICT Seta and Alfie Hamid, programme manager at Cisco Systems.
Current programme sponsors include MICT Seta, Standard Bank, Cisco Systems. Uniform SA, Epi-Use Africa, BBD, Hollard, Microsoft and its BEE partners (Home Grown Business Integration, Chillisoft and Maxxor). The academic partners are the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand and its Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering.
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