By JONAH NWOKPOKU

Committed to providing qualitative training to fresh graduates and prepare them for job market across African countries, Computer Warehouse Group, CWG, has extended its training academy to its other operational bases in Accra, Kampala, Port Harcourt and Abuja, with plans to incorporate Cameroon by the first half of 2015.

With the extension into new frontiers, it is expected that beneficiaries of the Academy would better be prepared for the global job market.

The goal of the CWG Academy is to bridge the workforce knowledge gap in Africa by equipping fresh graduates with the required skills that will make them employable or become successful entrepreneurs.

With over 500 graduates from the Academy, about 85 percent, according to the company have been employed in leading companies such as IBM, CWG, MTN, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic-IBTC, Chevron, Cadbury, Etisalat, Ericsson and Unilever among others, while about 10 percent have opted to become technology entrepreneurs.

Outlining the future plans of the project, CWG boss and Entrepreneur in Residence at CBS, Mr. Austin Okere said that the project which started modestly as a means of maintaining the steady supply of high skilled engineers to the CWG enterprise has grown to become a succour for ambitious trainable youths, who would otherwise be locked out of reaching their full potential. “The industry has come to be dependent on our highly trained and qualified graduates.”