Technology talent outsourcing and training firm, INGRYD Academy, has fully transitioned to digital learning and has also been accredited as an examination centre, marking a major shift in how it delivers tech education and certification across multiple countries.
The Managing Director, HRM Khadijat Abdulkadir, disclosed this during a panel session titled “The Tech Talent Playbook – Raising Next-Gen Talents” at the Tech Revolution Africa Conference held over the weekend in Lagos.
Abdulkadir explained that the move was driven by the need to expand access to INGRYD’s courses, respond to growing demand, and scale operations beyond Nigeria. She recalled that the academy previously delivered all its programmes through physical classrooms across its locations.
“INGRYD is launching its fully digital services. In the past, we have been teaching our classes all physically in all our different locations. But this year, we decided to provide our users more access to our courses, more on-demand, and also scale to support other countries where we are seeing a lot of traction,” she said.
According to her, the academy serves both Nigerians and non-Nigerians, a factor that informed the migration of all courses to its proprietary learning management platform, Edify.
“For that reason, we have moved all our courses to our platform, Edify, which supports our people to take crash courses, self-paced courses or hybrid courses,” Abdulkadir stated.
She noted that while INGRYD has embraced flexible learning models, its core three-month professional programmes remain intact.
These include Cybersecurity, IT Risks, IT Audit, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, all of which can now be taken virtually, self-paced or through a hybrid structure.
“We still have our typical three-month courses for all our fundamental programmes. Those are three months long and you can take them fully virtual, self-paced or hybrid,” she added.
Abdulkadir emphasised that certification remains central to INGRYD’s value proposition, stressing that all courses offered by the academy are internationally recognised.
“We offer certification for every course. As from today, any class you take from INGRYD will be recognised in 182 countries in the world. So INGRYD today means certification, availability of options for employment, and most importantly, credibility,” she said.
Beyond digital learning, the academy has also achieved another milestone by becoming an accredited examination centre. Abdulkadir revealed that students can now sit for professional exams directly at INGRYD facilities immediately after completing their courses.
“The second exciting thing about INGRYD today is that it is an examination centre. You can walk into any of our facilities today and have an exam. You don’t have to go to another exam centre to be certified,” she said.
She disclosed that INGRYD currently operates five examination centres located in Lagos, Abuja, Amsterdam, London and the United States of America.
On the broader challenge of Nigeria’s widening skills gap, Abdulkadir described it as an institutional problem that cuts across sectors, calling for a collaborative solution.
“Skills gap is due to an institutional problem. It cuts across government, private sector and universities. It is a country-wide problem and not for one sector to solve,” she said.
She added that INGRYD addresses the challenge by partnering with government and the private sector while scaling access through affordable training.
“When we have an institutional problem, the solution is for all stakeholders to come together. That is why at INGRYD we partner widely and make opportunities affordable,” Abdulkadir concluded.
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