Ahead of the Game

A course for IT Pros, Consultants, Partners.

The Ahead of the Game technical series launched at Microsoft SA, Tuesday 21 January 2014.  It is a 3-day technical level 200 – 300 training session where you will learn on day 1 how to Be Lean and Stay lean in your business, finding out how to identify opportunities for small and medium size businesses to improve efficiency using Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V virtualization technologies in the following areas:

•      Server Consolidation

•      Disaster Recovery

•      Deploying Cost Effective Storage

On day 2 you will learn how to do Business Anywhere by identifying opportunities for small and medium size businesses to enable users to work from anywhere using Windows 8 mobility solutions, Unified Device Management (UDM), Remote Desktop Services/VDI, Windows Azure, and Office 365 cloud-based applications and services.

On day 3 delegates are presented on how to Tap your Data Goldmine:

·   Exciting you with the potential and power of Microsoft BI, with a specific focus on delivering BI solutions with Office and SharePoint. 

·   Empowering you with the technical skills required to transform your business selling (BI) solutions to SMB customers, in turn helping them put their data to work to make better decisions faster, to focus on the right opportunities, and to win more business. 

·   Providing you with ideas to identify Microsoft BI opportunities and resources to help you take the next steps on your path to mastering Microsoft BI development. Together we preview the new Power BI for Office 365 online service.

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To enquire about this Ahead of the Game technical series training, please contact: 0861 100 395 or enquiry@ctutraining.co.za

Also, check out Microsoft Virtual Academy for FREE technical training including Hyper-V, System Center R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2: http://bit.ly/zkoHLi

Interested in attending this training? Check out what some of the delegates had to say: http://youtu.be/nRougD8DZ-4

Career success starts at CTU

The matric results are out and while some are ecstatic to get accepted into the tertiary institution of their choice, others are not so lucky.

 

According to the article “Varsities swamped” on www.timeslive.co.za there are only 127 827 places for first-year students at the 22 full-time universities in South Africa.

• 35 500 matriculants have tried to get into Wits University, which admits 5 500 first-year students;
• 75 000 people applied for one of 10 500 first-year places at the University of Johannesburg;
• 16 000 applied to Stellenbosch University, which has 5 000 places;
• More than 25000 applications were received by Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela University, which admits 5 800 first-years;
• 40 000 applied for one of 4 000 places at the University of Western Cape;
• 27 435 people applied to the University of Cape Town for one of 4 200 places. Some 19 838 of the applicants were matriculants;
• 6 500 people applied for 6 900 places at the University of the Free State; and
• 80 000 people applied for one of 14 000 places at the Tshwane University of Technology.

This means that there are a lot of the 171 755 matriculants of 2013 that did not get into a university.

It is not a great feeling to be turned down and those who did not get accepted might feel that their future career dreams are crushed. But that is not necessarily the case, since there are more places to go and study than universities.

Why not go to an award-winning private FET college where you can still get a national qualification and an international certification? CTU was announced the Microsoft Gold Learning Partner of the Year 2012 and the 2013 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year: South Africa. We were also awarded the Microsoft Social Responsibility Partner of the Year 2013 award and were announced as a Microsoft Learning Partner Finalist for 2013.

As one of Microsoft’s largest training partners in South Africa, CTU always strives to align our efforts with Microsoft to empower people around the world to succeed through learning.

CTU Career Campus offer IT, design and business programmes to school leavers and people who want to up-skill. We give our students the option to study full time or part time, and we have added Saturday classes to the mix. Small classes led by facilitators ensure that a great deal of attention is given to each individual with emphasis on practical training.

We have a national footprint of 14 campuses, each with an exciting “Student Life @ CTU” programme filled with activities that are organised by the CTU staff and Student Representative Councils.

In line with industry requirements, CTU Training Solutions (PTY) Ltd is fully accredited by the MICT SETA (ACC/2006/07/186) through the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO).

Your dream’s starting point might have changed, but let CTU assist you to reach that end goal. Register today! Late registrations for 2014 are still open. Classes commence February 2014.

CTU Graduation 2013

CTU’s national graduation took place on the 30^th of November 2013 at four different venues in South Africa.

Our 2013 students’ accomplishments include:

·         1 400 qualifications

·         7 000 international certifications

o   5 000 were Microsoft – the most in South Africa

o   Second most CISCO international exams in South Africa

o   Most CIW certifications in South Africa

o   Most Adobe ACA and ACE certifications

o   Most AutoCAD qualifications and associate certifications

All of this reiterates the professional standards of international certification. The combination of qualifications and professional certifications is unique to CTU and is the most powerful model in creating IT professionals.

Our merit students for 2013 are:

• Graphic Design: Marzaan le Roux (Cape Town)
• Multimedia and Web: Carla Wilson (Stellenbosch)
• IT Technical Support: Rendani Longan Mukwevho (Polokwane)
• MCSD: Jay-Dee Sale (Cape Town)
• MCSE BI: Kurt Louw (Stellenbosch)
• Project Management I: Denise Laubser (Stellenbosch)
• Project Management II: Domenica Taljaard (Pretoria)
• CAD I: Nelmari van Zyl (Nelspruit)
• CAD II: Petrus Willem Coetser (Nelspruit)
• Web Development I: Petrus Botha (Stellenbosch)
• MCSA: Lesiba John Lediga (Polokwane)
• MCSE: Stefan Steyn (Roodepoort)
• Office Administration: Karin Poolman (Bloemfontein)
• CISCO: Quenn van Niekerk (Pretoria)

CTU’s highlights for 2013:

·         Microsoft Country Partner of the Year 2013: We at CTU were extremely honoured to accept this award at WPC (Microsoft World Partner Conference) in Houston Texas in June this year.  This award proves yet again that CTU has been recognised by Microsoft as a strategic partner in developing ICT professionals in South Africa.  We are very proud of this award; it showcases how committed we are in training and developing quality ICT professionals at various levels in the ICT industry.

·         Microsoft Social Responsibility Partner of the Year 2013: We received this award for the empowerment of an FET college (KSD FET College) in Umtata. This we did in partnership with Microsoft S2B, MICT SETA and KSD FET College. We installed a fully equipped lab to make the project a success.

·         The Jobfund: CTU is part of an employability project with Microsoft and the Jobfund to train 300 young unemployed students in South Africa.

·         Microsoft Learning Partner Finalist 2013

·         Prometric: Our Polokwane branch was awarded 2013 Prometric Partner of the Year. 5 of our branches received the Prometric Top 50 Partner Reward.

·         CTU made it to the Top IT Training Companies Watch list in the world

·         CISCO: CTU has grown to become the 2^nd largest CISCO learning partner in South Africa and doubled the number of fully certified CCNPs year-on-year.

·         Centre of Excellence: CTU has opened its first Centre of Excellence in Menlyn, Pretoria. This centre personifies quality in CTU and will be the leader to transform every CTU campus over time in something totally special.

Congratulations to all the students who graduated in 2013. Your future is now in your hands.