The grand opening of the CTU Centre of Excellence: Pretoria

One of the most anticipated CTU events of the year, the grand opening of the CTU Centre of Excellence: Pretoria, took place on 1 October 2013.

Upon arrival refreshments were served to the partners, clients and CTU staff waiting at entrance for the anticipated unveiling. Human Resource Development Director, Dawn Ngcobo acted as MC for the night and did a splendid job in welcoming all the guests and announcing the events of the evening. 

Mteto Nyati, managing director of Microsoft SA, inspired all with his insightful speech honouring CTU for all the hard work and contributions done.  He went on to comment on how connected CTU is, how CTU functions as a family and that this has been our most important foundation for success, how we always know what our customers want and how well CTU as a company partner with others to offer the best solutions.

CTU CEO, Ronald Meeske’s speech started out with CTU’s humble beginnings. He then spoke about where we are now, the reasoning behind the Centre of Excellence and what the future holds for CTU. According to him the Centre of Excellence “was born out of a vision as to where IT training is going at the moment. It is to create a new experience for people in IT training; it is about the experience they obtain. It also encapsulates a place where high level computer training takes place at the scarce and critical skills levels”. Exciting times lie ahead.

As the speeches were concluded, Mteto officiated the opening by cutting the red ribbon and unveiling the CTU plaque. All the guests went on escorted tours through the Centre of Excellence. A sneak peek inside the building reveals 19 training rooms, a 40 seat testing centre, a boardroom, four to five interviewing rooms to mention but a few, but at any given day, this building will be hosting 400 students and corporate clients to be trained. Afterwards a lucky draw took place with Roelof de Bruyn as the prize winner.

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CTU testing centres: dedicated to excellence

CTU Training Solutions offers full time, part time and corporate IT, design and business studies. At CTU, we don’t sell programmes without certifications (national and/or international). This is what differentiates us from most of our competitors.

We have a national footprint with campuses in Auckland Park, Bloemfontein, Boksburg, Cape Town, Kimberley, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Randburg, Roodepoort, Stellenbosch, Umhlanga and Vereeniging. Each one of our campuses has their own testing centre.

CTU is one of the largest testing partners in EMEA (Middle East and Africa), doing an annual average of 11 000 exams at our 15 IT testing centres. Our dedicated test centres are proctored by professional certified test centre administrators.

We are also proud to announce that CTU Polokwane has won the Certify 2013 Partner of the Year award for the largest year on year growth in South Africa for 2013.

Most companies have made certifications a minimum prerequisite for their employees and this has resulted in a huge increase of candidates who wants to certify. To meet this demand, we have recently opened a testing centre at our Pretoria campus (the Centre of Excellence), the biggest testing centre in Africa with a seating capacity of 40 seats per session.

We test for the following clients:

·   Prometric: Exams include Microsoft, IBM, ACA and CAPM.

·   Pearson Vue: Exams include CISCO, CompTIA, IIA, Oracle, HP and Adobe Experts.

·   Certiport: Exams delivered under Microsoft Office, MTA and Adobe Associates.

·   Kryterion: Exams delivered include certified continual training for Architects and Engineers.

·   SHL: Exams delivered include, Nedbank employee assessments and Nelson Mandela University Master’s degree entry exams.

·   SAIFM: Exams include JSE Traders, Bonds Market, Derivatives, Agricultural and Equity.

Amongst other popular certifications, the Microsoft, CompTIA, CISCO, ORACLE and Institute of Internal Auditors’ certifications have proved to be the most sought after by our clientele.

For more information about our testing centres, contact us at 0861 100 395 or visit www.ctutraining.co.za.

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