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Aptech Career Quest Qatar 2017
The evening of September 23 had a roomful of Aptech students in their black graduation gowns, with beaming smiles on their faces, waiting eagerly for the ceremony to begin. The Aptech Career Quest and Graduation 2017 took place at the Crowne Plaza, Qatar.
ScooNews’s Parvati Jayakrishnan reports from Qatar
The evening of September 23 had a roomful of Aptech students in their black graduation gowns, with beaming smiles on their faces, waiting eagerly for the ceremony to begin. The Aptech Career Quest and Graduation 2017 took place at the Crowne Plaza, Qatar. The ceremony witnessed 84 students receiving their graduation in various disciplines like animation, IT education and English language education. The graduates further have an opportunity to study and attain a degree at any of the four campuses of Middlesex University, London. Middlesex University is ranked 73rd in the world. Ms Lucy Everest, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Director of Marketing at Middlesex University; Mr Kallol Mukherjee, Deputy Vice President, Aptech International Operations; Mr Kiran Deo Choudhary, Manager, Aptech Qatar; and Mr Sunny Varghese, Director of DPS Modern Indian School participated in the event.
Aptech, Qatar was started in 1994 and has played an important part in empowering students with digital literacy and skill development. In his address, Mr Manoj Megchiani, General Manager of Aptech Qatar Computer Education Centre, spoke about how Aptech students have made their mark by working in companies like Microsoft, Google and Pixar.
Aptech CEO and MD Mr Anil Pant shared some words of inspiration with the graduating students wherein he emphasised, via a simple exercise, that there is no shortcut to making money; that it doesn’t fall from the sky. He said that Aptech strives to make students realise the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Quoting a simple example, “Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit and wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad. We at Aptech teach students to identify that.”
He mentioned that there is no dearth of jobs if you attain the skill for it, citing an example that Bangladesh gets 300 million dollars of Forex per year just via the outsourcing work they receive. He concluded by saying, “Learning does not end when you throw your hats after the ceremony. The learning has just begun.”
Ms Lucy Everest gave a detailed presentation to the students regarding the tie-up programme they have with Aptech. Students who graduate from Aptech Qatar are eligible to apply for a degree programme to Middlesex University. They can choose to complete a year of training at either the London, Dubai, Malta, or Mauritius campuses. A discounted fee of 10,750 pounds (regular fee is 13,000) is being offered for the full time programme at the London campus.
Aptech conducts a Techno Mind contest in various disciplines, for which prizes and certificates were also presented to the winning students at the ceremony. Some of the categories include logo design, pencil drawing, 3D graphics, website design and web application development.
Aptech Qatar is the largest Indian non-formal education company.