A technology talent outsourcing and training company, INGRYD Academy has gone fully digital and also became an examination centre.
INGRYD Academy is the go-to partner for advanced tech training and job placement. The company is on a mission to produce highly trained tech talent with the right expertise, culture and work readiness to support the increasing demand from businesses globally.
On going fully digital, Khadijat Abdulkadir, managing director, Ingryd Academy made this known over the weekend during the panel session on “The Talent Playbook: The Tech Talent Playbook-Raising Next-Gen Talents”, at the Tech Revolution Africa Conference in Lagos.
She said the rationale is to provide users more access to courses where traction resides, while recalling teaching all courses physically in time past.
Abdulkadir noted that users will be able to take on crash courses, self-paced courses or hybrid courses with the new development whilst its three month course in Cybersecurity, IT Risks, IT Audit, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence still maintained.
“INGRYD is launching its fully digital services. In the past, we have been teaching our classes all physically in all our different locations. But, this year, we have decided to provide our users more access to our courses, more on-demand and also scale to support other countries where we are seeing a lot of traction.
“We have Nigerians and we also service Non-Nigerians. For that reason, we have moved all our courses to our platform, Edify, which is our learning management solution that supports our people to just take crash courses, self-paced courses or hybrid courses.
“We still have our typical three-month course for all our fundamental courses such as Cybersecurity, IT Risks, IT Audit, Blockchain, AI. Those are three month long and you can take them fully virtual, self-paced or you can take them hybrid.
“We offer certification for every course. As from today, any class you take from INGRYD will be recognised in 182 countries in the world. So, INGRYD today means Certification, availability of options for employment and most importantly INGRYD today means credibility,” she said.
The managing director added that the Academy is now an examination centre, with its different locations in London, Lagos, Abuja, Amsterdam and United States of America.
She explained that examination could be conducted by the Academy upon course wrap-up therefrom.
“The second exciting thing about INGRYD today is that it is an examination centre. You can walk into any of our facilities today and you can have an exam.
“You dont have to go to an exam centre in order to be certified. As of today, we have five exam centres- Lagos, Abuja, Amsterdam, London and US,” she said.
Meanwhile, Abdulkadir attributed the skill gap in the country to institutional problem, describing it as large.
She, therefore, proferred that all the different areas such as government, private sector and others unite in finding a lasting solution to it.
“Skills Gap is due to an institutional problem. It is large because it cuts across government, private sector. It is a country-wide problem. It is not for one sector to solve. It is a university problem.
“When we have an institutional problem in our hand, how to solve it is by ensuring that all those different areas come together to find a solution. That is why at INGRYD we partner with governments, private sector and we scale opportunities by making it cheap.” Abdulkadir said.