Aptech Nigeria honours 130 graduates, awards N60m UK scholarships
Aptech Nigeria has celebrated more than 130 graduates at its first national convocation in Lagos, with four standout students walking away with international scholarship offers worth about N60 million.
The ceremony at the Sheraton Lagos drew more than 400 parents, relatives, students, education partners, faculty, industry guests and other stakeholders from across the country. Under the theme One Milestone. Many Futures, it marked a clear step in Aptech Nigeria’s drive to open more doors to career focused technology and vocational training.
The centrepiece was four 50 per cent scholarships for eligible programmes at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, each worth about N15 million. Together they come to roughly N60 million and give the winners a path to further study abroad after their Aptech courses.
Dr Kallol Mukherjee, executive vice president and head of international business at Aptech, told the class that the day was not a finish line. Graduation is not the end, but the beginning of new opportunities. Keep learning, believe in your potential and use your skills to create value and make an impact, he said. He pressed the need to keep learning and stay flexible as technology keeps changing workplaces and the skills employers want.
Special guest Kate Henshaw, the Nigerian actress, fitness campaigner and philanthropist, urged the graduates to put those skills to work and give something back. Henshaw, who received the Social Impact Innovative Award under the NexVision Global Awards, an Aptech scheme, said the organisation’s bet on skills can leave a mark that lasts. Aptech has invested in lives. There’s a whole world out there waiting for the skills that all of these students have acquired, she said.
Partners from more than 70 centres nationwide were in the hall, a sign of how far the network now stretches. The organisation says that reach shows its push to widen access to practical, job ready training in technology and creative fields.
The gathering also fell in Aptech’s 40th year worldwide, four decades of career oriented technology and creative education. For Nigeria, Zoyols News reports, the first national convocation put a new crop of graduates on display, ready for an economy that leans ever more on technology, new ideas and digital skill.
