IT Technical Support Learnership Progress Report

At the end of February this year, the CTU initiated IT Technical Support Learnership kicked off. It is funded by Microsoft and MICT Seta.

30 underprivileged youth were lucky enough to start their theoretical component of the programme (that is integrated and running concurrently with the other career programmes) at the Cape Town, Nelspruit and Randburg Career campuses. They have already completed their A+ and Network+ studies and were all eager to start implementing their knowledge in the workplace.

Most of these learners have started their workplace experience with companies who will be mentoring them with real “on-the-job” involvement and exposure.

They will be networking PCs, upgrading and downgrading hardware, rebuilding desktops and ghost computers, to mention but a few activities.

On Monday 23 July, 8 learnership students from the Randburg campus started their first workplace experience day at Qrent, an International IT company.

They were warmly received by Maadia Davids, the warehouse and logistics manager, who was instrumental in enabling them to become part of this wonderful opportunity and to implement their newly required theoretical knowledge in the workplace.

The IT manager, Sean McKenzie welcomed them and explained how they will be working in teams with their line managers and mentors in order to be exposed to all aspects of the operational practices. The learners were super excited and after indulging in a wonderful spread of muffins, croissants and orange juice, they were marched off to get “their hands dirty”.

The photographs are self-explanatory of how a very elegantly dressed group of students experienced their first introduction to a real workplace scenario.



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