NAITA-Huawei Asia-Pacific Academy awards certificates to first batch students

National Apprentice and Industrial Training Authority (NAITA) in collaboration with Huawei recently awarded certificates to first batch of 240 students, who participated in the advanced technology in telecommunication course, through a joint initiative named NAITA-Huawei Asia-Pacific Academy.

NAITA-Huawei Asia-Pacific Academy is a substantial development initiative for ICT talents focusing on vocational students, followed by the signing of MoU between NAITA and Huawei Sri Lanka in July 2021, to enhance the students with theories and actually skills for ICT infrastructure development. This initiative includes the construction of 1:1 simulates construction site，to allow students to practice main scenarios of telecom hardware installation, as well as theoretical studies with professional teachers with standardized quality awareness, to leverage the students’ competence and qualifications.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chairman of NAITA Ruchika Amarasekara said, “Technology is fast evolving, emerging ICT technologies such as 5G, IoT, AI, and cloud, will be shaping the development and implementation of digital economy. We are thankful to our partner Huawei, to come up and enable our youth with cutting edge technologies with latest practice and experiences, which been actually needed by the telecom industry.” 

“Today we have the first batch of young talents’ who participated this joint programme, of course we will definitely not stop here. 

we are looking forward to enhance our partnership with NAITA in the coming years, together to elevate the competitiveness of young Sri Lankans to help this beautiful country to emerge digital economy,” Huawei Sri Lanka CEO Tao Guangyao said.