Most Important IT Training Institutions in Ghana
Marcopolis.net has compiled a list of the most important IT training institutions in Ghana. These are tertiary and pre-tertiary institutions that train people in ICT-related fields to help build human resource that can meet the increasing needs of Ghana’s ICT folks.
Top 5 ICT Training Institutions in Ghana
Most Important IT Training Institutions in Ghana
Marcopolis.net has compiled a list of the most important IT training institutions in Ghana. These are tertiary and pre-tertiary institutions that train people in ICT-related fields to help build human resource that can meet the increasing needs of Ghana’s ICT folks.
They range from individual initiatives to corporate partnerships and government entities that are aiming at building a ready crop of professionals to service the needs of individuals, institutions and the government.
Top 5 ICT Training Institutions in Ghana
| Rank | Company | Country | Sector | Description |
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Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) |
Ghana | IT | This is Ghana’s first Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI) that aims at helping to stimulate growth in the ICT sector in the country and the sub region at large. It was established in 2003 as a partnership between the Government of Ghana and the Government of India. It is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for use by Ghanaians, West Africans and other nationals. The center also houses West Africa’s first supercomputer. Its meeting and lecture rooms as well as the wireless network guarantee that the AITI can host close to 1,000 IT professionals, researchers, visitors and trainees at any given time. It currently works with institutions located in Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America, Europe and the United States. The center prides itself as having a world of professionals, who are committed to the free flow of knowledge and the use of technology to develop human resources required for the development of Ghana and Africa through ICT training. It has a staff strength of about 35 from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Some of its projects include i2Cap and Project Kane and a youth-driven project, using ICT as an innovating tool in education to name a few, were coordinated by women. AITI-KACE as an ICT training centre has mastered the art of training students in software development as a composite process involving planning, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance. It believes in ‘one size does-not-fit-all approaches’ of software development training. For that reason, its training focuses on personal creativity and dynamism to bring out the potential of each and every student. Some of its systems include: AITI-HMS (a hospital management system), AITI-HRMS (a human resource system), AITI-LMS (a library management system) and AITI-WRMS (a hospital waiting room management system). |
| 2 | Ghana | IT | IPMC College of Technology was established in 1992 as the human development unit of IPMC to shape and hone the country’s future IT leaders and experts. It has since gone through various restructuring to meet changing demands in the technology world as well as respond appropriately to the needs of its students. The college says it is now dedicated to building the future of a powerful, self-dependent Africa; a power that comes from knowledge and highly skilled indigenous workforce. Since its establishment, over 80,000 professionals have benefited from its courses which include over 20 disciplines ranging from professional courses in IT and business to corporate training programs. It now has 16 locations nationwide where it runs its courses for interested people. The courses are run in conjunction with some 45 globally reputed partner companies that include HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle. |
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| 3 | Ghana | IT | Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) is a fully-fledged telecommunications university that traces its roots to the colonial days of Ghana. It started as the flagship Training Centre of the defunct Ghana Telecom used as a Royal Air Force (RAF) Training School during the Second World War. It was subsequently handed to Cable and Wireless to train Telecommunications Technicians for British West African Countries (i.e., Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia). The Training Centre progressed rapidly through deregulation and privatization to become the main source of teaching and certification in Telecommunications Engineering for Ghana Telecom employees as well as other institutions in Ghana and West Africa. In 2005, Ghana Telecom’s management upgraded the infrastructure and equipment to modern standards in preparation for converting the training centre into a university for telecommunication and multimedia engineering & information technology. It was finally accredited to offer university courses in ICT in 2006 and has since established five campuses throughout the country. It currently runs nine undergraduate programs and 15 graduate programs. Courses offered include diplomas in Telecom Engineering, BSc Information Technology, BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Informatics, BSc Telecom Engineering, BSc Mobile Internet Communication, MSc Telecom Management and MSc Telecom Engineering. |
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| 4 | Ghana | IT | NIIT is one of the most established private ICT training institutions in Ghana. It is a high-tech information technology training institution that provide various hands-on training for in-demand careers in the Information Technology worldwide. NIIT has always been pioneering new industry-relevant programs based on the changing market needs. Its curriculum is designed and developed as a result of extensive research done at software factories, universities of higher learning and organizations employing IT resources across the world. The company prides itself in providing on-the-ground skills to a variety of people, including students and the working class in the country. It currently has about five training centers across the country, which have the capacity to take more than 15,000 students per annum. It is also an Oracle WDP Partner, Microsoft GOLD Certified Partner, CISCO learning Solutions Partner and compTIA partner for Ghana. |
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| 5 | Ghana | IT | The Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), popularly known as AIT, is an independent technology-focused research university that is based in Ghana’s capital city, Accra. It is committed to academic excellence, cutting-edge research and research and development work. The university is modeled along the lines of internationally recognized institutes of technologies such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology both ranked in the top 10 of the world ranking of universities. AIT comprises six schools and three institutes. AIT has a strong engineering and technology focus and as well as a strong entrepreneurial culture. One unique feature about the university is that it encourages its students to pursue more than one certificate/diploma or degree program at a time. It believes that it is possible for students on a particular course to also, in parallel, register for an allied program and through hard work, be able to graduate with, say, two degrees in four or at, most, five years of study. |