iPad Competition Winner 2011

Congratulations to Peter Susmak from Lowveld High School who has won the iPad in our National Competition. Peter will be studying Computer Aided Draughting at the CTU Nelspruit Career Campus next year.

Are You “WITH-IT”?

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers, and also other devices, as a utility over a network.  Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet.

A true cloud solution is one where users can access a flexible volume of services, as needed, via the Internet.  It is one of the fastest growing development sectors in the world due to the expected demand.

There are 4 different types of clouds, namely Public, Community, Hybrid and Private (with Public and Private as the 2 main clouds).

Public Cloud – A public cloud is a service that anyone with a network connection can access.  A service provider makes resources (e.g. applications and storage) available to the general public over the Internet.

Private Cloud – A private cloud is infrastructure operated only for a single organisation, is managed either internally or by a third-party and is hosted internally or externally.

Community Cloud – A community cloud shares infrastructure between several organizations from a specific community with common concerns.

Hybrid Cloud – A hybrid cloud is multiple cloud systems (private, public and community) that are connected in a way that allows programs and data to be moved easily from one deployment system to another.

Benefits of cloud computing:

·         Shared development costs on business applications;

·         New functionality;

·         Organisations only pay for services and space it uses.

According to IDC predictions for 2011, 80% of new software will be available as cloud services; by 2014, over one-third of software purchases will be delivered through the cloud.

Get ready for the cloud with Microsoft Training and Certifications. 

Contact CTU Training Solutions to discuss your training needs.  0861 100 395. www.ctutraining.co.za

CCNA at Pretoria Corporate

Have you studied MCITP at the Pretoria Corporate Campus in 2011?  Give yourself the edge by doing the CCNA course in Feb 2012 at the Corporate Campus and you can qualify for a 10% discount.

Congratulations to BCX Interns 2011

January programmes at CTU Pretoria Corporate

CCNA	10 Days/16 Eves	23 January
Hacking Secrets  and Solutions	5 Days 8 Eves	9 January 23 January
A+	10 days 10 Days/16 Eves	9 January 23 January

CTU Roodepoort Creative Exhibition

CTU Roodepoort had their Graphic/AutoCAD exhibition on 16 November 2011, where all students presented their years’ work.

It was a great success. We had judges from the industry to come and judge all their work and give some positive criticism to each student.

We also awarded 1^st and 2^nd price winners for each programme.

    

CTU’s New Campuses

We are proud to present our new campuses:

Eastern Cape (Opening 9 January 2011)

Tel: 041 363 8898

77 2^nd Avenue

Corner of Pickering Street

Newton Park

Port Elizabeth

Cape Town (Opening 9 January 2011)

Tel: 021 418 4902

1^st Floor

30 Waterkant Street

Corner of Loop & Waterkant Street

Cape Town

 

Randburg (Opening 9 January 2011)

Our Randburg Campus is already an esteemed corporate campus and it will be opening a career division next year.

Tel: 011 781 0445

U76/77

Brightwater Commons

Republic Road

Randburg



CTU Roodepoort Year-end Awards

Top student of the year per programme

• MCPD – Leo Breuker
• MCPD 2^nd year – Sune Burger
• AutoCAD – Dewan Stadler
• MCITP – Quintin Viljoen
• Graphic Design – Melissa Jacobs
• Multimedia – Melissa Walker

Exhibition

• AutoCAD – 1^st place – Johan Bornmann
• AutoCAD – 2^nd place – Dirk Pretorius
• Graphic Design – 1^st place – William Madibo
• Graphic Design – 2^nd place – Rolinda Smit & Simeon Fereira

Less serious awards

• Joker of the Year – Marius Page
• Miss Personality – Mari Cowan
• Mr Personality – Thys van den Berg
• Mr Social – Koo
• Best Excuse Award – Werner Steyn
• Harry Potter Award – Waldt Kotze
• The Thinker Award – Dirk Pretorius & Quintin Viljoen
• The Speedy McSpeedster Award – Annemarie Coetzee, Melissa Walker, Richard Francis & Phumulani
• The Sloth Award – Keith Suping & Wessel Kotze
• Best Gamer Award – Sune Burger
• The Stirrer Award – Leeroy Bender
• The Beefcake Award – Dewan Stadler
• Silence of the Lamb Award – Keitimetsi Motsai
• Sing Star Award – Keegan Martin
• Mrs Know-it-all Award – Melissa Jacobs
• The Timex Award – Dylan Wolhuter
• The Whangdoodle Award – John Michael Walker
• King of Question Award – Leon Stevenson, Timothy Wattrus, Justin Govender & Shawn Peplar
• Helping Hand Award – Melissa Walker
• The Eggs Award – Rian Kotze & Greg Madden
• Awesome Artist Award – William Madibo
• The Handsome Handwriting Award – Donovan Coetzee
• The Super Style Award – Rolinda Smit, Tashlin & Johan Bornmann
• The Chipmunk Award – John Tresidder, Thys van der Berg & Rikus Roelofse
• The Welcome Aboard Award – Jessica Dickerson
• The Super Smile Award – Attie Jokwana & Sifiso Mapekula
• The Diving Award – Stabhiso Mahbela
• The Best Hair Award – Jerome Oberholzer & Wesley Kadou
• The Rumour Award – Eric Chang

Launching the CTU Newsletter

It is with great excitement that we launch the first edition of the CTU newsletter. We have decided to add a communication channel to our clients, vendors, business partners and friends in the ICT community.

Please check out our newsletter and let us know how you experience the CTU community. We will appreciate all your feedback and contributions as our newsletter grows.

Wow!! What a turbulent year we have had! We started off with a brand new VPN and moved to our own private cloud and implemented all the latest Microsoft programs from Office 2010 to Lync, CRM, SCCM, Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, Server 2008R2, etc. The result is that we are now operating in the cloud even though we initially battled to get our Network correctly configured.

It is a giant step forward!

We felt the financial crisis in the number of cancelations we received in February in our career division but nevertheless we have been able to grow our student numbers by 11%. We have had a drastic increase in the number of 2^nd years and will be pushing a significant number of professionals in the market from now to March 2012!

The CTU Highlights for 2011:

• CTU has trained a significant number of BI’s, SharePoint, Exchange and SQL Pros and has squarely entered the Professionals market.
• We have grown our corporate market share to over 35% and have concluded numerous SLA’s in 2011 which have been renewed for 2012. Watch this space!!
• We ran the Hot Labs and Prometric testing centre at the Microsoft Summit and Tech-Ed in Durban.
• We have established our CISCO market after becoming a CLP in 2010 and trained over 200 CCNA’s countywide.
• We have launched our first International ICT Tour to the USA and it was a revelation to the students how big ICT really is.
• Since joining the Microsoft Learning partner channel we have once again managed to be a finalist in the category Training Partner of the year award.
• Expansions, yes of course, we opened new branches in Cape Town on the Foreshore in June, PE in October and Durban we have offices but will be officially open in March 2012!
• How will we improve our service to all our clients? We have launched our new recruitment company, CTU Recruits, and plan to add significant value to our career students and corporate clients by connecting ICT professionals and companies with each other. We welcome Ms Claire Rayneard to our team to head up this division. So if you have any ICT HR needs we can help!
• We have had numerous graduations of Learnerships that we concluded during the year and the most significant was Henneman, BCX, and to come Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch and Gauteng.
• In total 1800 Qualifications and 8000 certifications.
• I have had the privilege to be appointed to the Microsoft Partner Advisor Council and had a most informative meeting in Seattle in October.

If I look at the above we have had once again an extraordinary year to say the least. The question is what does 2012 hold in store for CTU?

We will drive hard to make our national footprint of 16 locations work for us.

We salute our clients for their support and faith in our ability to deliver Human Resource Development solutions for them.

We salute the different vendors like Microsoft, CISCO, Adobe and Autodesk for continued support.

We thank our International Exam partners Prometric and VUE.

We are very grateful for MICT SETA for great service and support.

To conclude our first newsletter I want to salute all the CTU employees who are the real heroes of our success and I am confident that even in these trying times we will continue to grow and develop people as ICT professionals to serve and develop our lovely country South Africa.

CISCO Expo South Africa

Cisco had its annual technology exhibition at Sun City. New technology and solutions were exhibited here to enthusiasts from all over Africa! It was a wonderful opportunity to network with Cisco experts, and to discuss various interventions with Cisco Partners to assist with development of skills.

CTU Sponsors Microsoft Tech-Ed Hot Labs, Self-Paced Labs and Prometric Testing venue

CTU was the proud sponsor/exhibitor at this year’s Microsoft Tech-Ed and Partner Summit. We were responsible for the hosting of the Self-Paced labs, Hot Labs and the Prometric testing facilities.

CTU was responsible for delivering labs to delegates at Tech-Ed, for technologies that Microsoft had identified as crucial to the deployment of Cloud Technologies. This was delivered very successfully by two of the CTU Facilitators who were able to shed more light on the various Microsoft Technologies.

The Self-Paced labs were also hosted by CTU, where delegates could see the new technologies that were presented in various sessions. Here the delegates were offered the opportunity to go through new technology labs and see what was on offer. This was very successful and the feedback was good.

CTU agreed to host the Prometric Testing venue, where delegates could write their International Certification. Well done to all who passed!

CTU's 2012 programmes

Project Management (New)

The primary purpose of the programme is to provide learners with a foundation of basic project management and skills which can be used to build further related competencies. This is a non-industry specific qualification which can be utilised in various fields of work.

E-Marketing (New)

Today, the internet is responsible for constantly changing our markets, media, branding, advertising and consumer behaviour. This course is designed to give professionals and students the opportunity to learn how to practically apply internet marketing tactics to small, medium and large businesses.

Graphic Design, Multimedia and Web:

Graphic designers plan, analyse and create visual solutions using typography and images to present information. They develop the overall layout and design of magazines, newspapers, journals, corporate identity and other publications.

Computer Aided Draughting & Design:

A Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) operator visualises a given sketch of an idea into a Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) 2D drawing through to a 3D Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) model. The operators are in great demand in the Architectural, Engineering, Designing, manufacturing and shop fitting industries.

IT Technical Support: Professional:

The MCITP: Consumer Support Technician credential is the premier certification to highlight and validate your expertise and skill set in a job role supporting a broad range of consumer desktop operating systems, desktop applications, mobile devices, networking, and hardware support issues related to the Windows operating system.

IT Systems Support: Microsoft Enterprise Administrator (Networking):

Network Engineers design and implement large networks and are required to have significant expertise in designing and administering network hardware and software. Earn the MCITP: Enterprise Administrator certification, distinguishing you as an IT professional committed to excellence in working with Windows Server.

IT Systems Support: CISCO Certified Network Professional (New)

The CCNA and CCNP qualification enables you to plan, implement, install, configure, verify and troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks.   

IT Systems Developer: Microsoft Certified Professional

This programme introduces the learner to software development processes, computer software, different programming languages, techniques and technologies used in development processes.

CTU Boksburg Creative Exhibition

10 November 2011 was the long overdue date to give the 1^st and 2^nd year AUTOCAD and Graphic and Web Students recognition for their outstanding designs during this year.

Boksburg Campus became the space in which the art objects met their audience. The students presented pictures, drawings, videos, digital art, interactive art, websites and building models.

Individuals from the industry were invited, along with fellow students, parents and future students. Anyone involved in art knows how fast trends come and go and how many hours goes into each piece. It was the exhibitions goal to build each exhibitors reputation, and give them the exposure that they deserve.

The response from the audience was that they were pleasantly surprised to see the high quality of designs and creativity. The students can look back on a year of sweat, guts and loads of fun.

We admire the students of Boksburg that eat, sleep and live for their passion!

CTU students do it again: Their involvement with their community on specific projects is commendable

At each of our 10 career campuses, all our students under the determined eye of the SRC, are encouraged to dedicate their time and effort to serve their community in one way or another. Pretoria Campus stood out amongst all the other campuses by dedicating a huge amount of time and effort to support those in their community who are less fortunate than they are. The SRC organised a whole variety of activities to ultimately raise money and give their time to the helpless and the underprivileged.

At the beginning of this year they chose to support the Potato Foundation, who is responsible for underprivileged children and providing what they need (i.e. food, sports equipment, and shelter for the homeless children). Students from the Pretoria Campus decided to hold a Barefoot Day to experience first-hand what it felt like not having shoes. Facilitators and staff alike donated enough shoes to fill two large boxes for which the staff of the Potato Foundation was most grateful.

RAG was another great social event which forced the students to work extremely hard, all in the name of charity. They worked long hours building a float and then had great fun collecting money by means of “blikskud”. The photos should say it all.

The big drive this year was their continuous support for the WetNose charity. WetNose is known as the no-kill shelter that looks after rescued dogs, cats, horses and other farm animals that have been neglected, abused and confiscated. Rehabilitated animals are up for adoption as soon as they recover. R800 was raised by the students on Charity Fridays where they donated dog and cat food and blankets for the cold winter months that followed.

 

Each Friday students took turns to drive out to the shelter and assisted in walking over 200 dogs, to the great delight of the shelter’s staff, who had limited resources. The students had very emotional experiences but admitted that it made them feel very proud and they are still involved in contributing of their time to this noble cause.

Hats off to the SRC and students of PRETORIA CAMPUS!!!!

Success reigns as 86 previously disadvantaged learners from in and around Phomolong graduates in Hennenman

In partnership with MICT SETA, who provided the funding, BULA, the company managing the project, and CTU Training Solutions, this training provider successfully trained 86 unemployed youth from in and around Phomolong township, who all proceeded to graduate on the 15 October 2011.

The Municipality of Matjhabeng kindly provided their community centre as venue for the Learnership. CTU moved in with their mobile unit consisting of 100 laptops and a server, and under the stringent eye of their Learnership Project Manager, Mrs Elsie Rautenbach, and her facilitators, 86 learners were found competent under difficult circumstances.

Elsie Rautenbach -  Learnership project manager, CTU;

Mr Jabu Sebuko  -  MICT SETA;

Antoinette Reitz – COO, CTU. 

Because of the inaccessibility and shortage of companies in the rural area in and around Henneman, it was not possible to host the learners for their workplace experience modules, but CTU was able to compromise on this challenge. By introducing Virtual Labs which substituted the workplace experience precisely as required by the unit standard outcomes, the learners all obtained the necessary exposure to successfully complete their workplace Portfolios of Evidence!

The honourable guests present at the graduation were:

Mr Jabu Sibeko from MICT SETA

Mr T. Rulashe – Matjhabeng LM SDF

Mr Buthelezi – Matjhabeng LM Training Office

Me Mfebe – Representative of the Mayor’s Office

Me Antoinette Reitz – CTU Training Solutions COO

They all motivated the learners with their inspirational words of wisdom to strive for excellence in all that they do.

After an emotional rapture of the National anthem the graduation was inaugurated and the dignitaries proceeded to hand out the prestigious National certificates to the learners under thunderous applause from the proud parents and learners alike.

Two young Ladies, Me Sharon Tladi & Valencia Khasu, simultaneously achieved the “Top student of the Year” award and each received a hamper gift pack for their achievement, and so did Jonas Lichakane as runner-up.

Mr Mothobuka from BULA was the MC and delighted the audience with his quirky humour and professional conduct. After graduation, photographs were taken and everyone enjoyed light refreshments.

For the 86 previously disadvantaged youth the future looks much brighter now and CTU prides itself to have been instrumental in die development and training of each of them.    

From the CTU Recruits Desk

Hello All!

The newly established CTU Recruits Division forms an integral part of the CTU HRD solution offering.  We work towards a Vision of Lifelong Learning and an absolute passion for the development of ICT Professionals.

My name is Claire Rayneard.

HRD Consultant

It is wonderful to rubber stamp vacancies with:

We will not send our candidates into the concrete jungle alone!!!  All the information on our newly developed website is geared towards helping them prepare for those sought after interviews!  We would like to draw your attention to www.cturecruits.co.za.

We will continue, always, to strive for Excellence!

I have recently joined the CTU Family and have started up the CTU Recruits Division.  Exciting times! 

Coming from a strong recruitment background, I now have the pleasure of applying my skills to assist our students, career students, graduates and alumni in exploring career opportunities in the market place.  We are proactively marketing our recruits’ solution to leading organisations and through understanding their needs, we will be putting forward suitable candidates for related vacancies.  This will offer our CTU ‘Recruits’ the chance to attend interviews and hopefully grow their IT careers! 

Not only are we geared towards looking after our applicants, we also proactively work in partnership with our valued clients in order for them to appoint prime talent!  We believe in offering a superior selection process and offer prime talent to organisations across all industry sectors.  CTU Recruits profiles both available top candidates on our website, as well as proudly detailing success stories on our Wall of Fame!

Some of the positions we are working on are:

Position:	Industry Sector:	Location:	Salary on offer:
AutoCad and Design Graduate	Architectural Design	Roodepoort	R 7 000.00
MCPD and MCITP Graduates	Investments	Johannesburg, Pretoria and CPT	R 10 000.00
Web Developer	Web Design	East Rand	R 6 000.00
Front end Web Developer	Web Design	Sandton	R 8 000.00
AutoCad and Design Graduates	Architectural Design	Johannesburg, Polokwane, Bloemfontein	R 7 500.00
Intermediate Developers Graduates	Investments	Durban	R 10 000.00
AutoCad Administrator	Architectural Design	Roodepoort	R 10 000.00
A+ N+ Graduates	Manufacturing	P.E, East London, Namibia	R 7 500.00