Sim Shagaya, the founding father of uLesson, an edtech startup, has announced that they’ve been granted an internet college license by the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC). That is in keeping with uLesson’s plan to develop past Ok-12 into offering open-distance tertiary training.
The net college, now referred to as Miva Open University, will start providing levels in computing and administration programs —Pc Science, Software program Engineering, Accounting, Economics, Enterprise Administration, Public Coverage & Administration, Knowledge Science and Cybersecurity — earlier than increasing to different fields.
Based on Shagaya’s tweet, their launch into the tertiary training sector is well timed as the necessity for efficient inexpensive tertiary training is as acute as ever. He additional reiterates their dedication to pushing the boundaries of accessibility, affordability, efficacy, comfort and innovation.
Shagaya has all the time been vocal about his dedication to offering holistic training, however in contrast to the Ok-12 mannequin which solely offers regionally related content material to complement common faculty classes, uLesson is now providing fully-licensed levels with Miva.
Based on Shagaya who has been main uLesson since 2019, his imaginative and prescient for uLesson is to make it the most important platform collating the perfect media, training, and know-how instruments to remodel training outcomes in Africa. “Years from now, I wish to hear uLesson customers discuss how we essentially shifted their attitudes to studying and impressed them to observe pursuits that they’d have in any other case not accomplished as a result of we opened their eyes to new prospects,” he shared.
Only about one in four people who apply to college in Nigeria yearly will get a spot. For individuals who do, the college expertise is characterised by outdated curriculums, low teacher-to-student ratio, and poor infrastructural services, amongst different issues. This has made it crucial for younger folks wanting to enter fields like tech to search out training from different sources, mostly on-line platforms.
uLesson—the most important and most capitalised edtech startup within the nation—has managed to win the belief and assist of fogeys and academics with over two million app downloads. Shagaya is seeking to carry all that they’ve discovered serving Ok-12 learners to the tertiary stage. There’s a growing demand for talent with tech abilities like information science, software program engineering, and cybersecurity, and Miva Open College will fill on this hole by offering younger Africans with the coaching and certification required.
“Our mission is to offer accessible, high-quality training that helps our college students succeed within the digital market,” Shagaya stated.
One in every of their rivals on this journey will probably be AltSchool Africa, one other Nigerian edtech providing diplomas in computing programs like software program engineering and information science after a year-long research. It raised $1 million in 2022 to scale its efforts.