Cisco Networking Academy Program Announces Record Student Numbers in Morocco

Cisco Networking Academy Program Announces Record Student Numbers in Morocco

Cisco today announced that its Networking Academy has achieved a key milestone with a record 47 percent increase in the total number of students enrolled in Morocco in the past 12 months. Since the program’s inception, this brings the total number of Networking Academy students over 7,500. Each student undergoes a comprehensive technology-based training curriculum that can provide them with skills which they can utilize in their future professional careers.

The first Networking Academy in Morocco started in Ain Bordja in February 2001, long before Cisco’s office in Morocco was established. Today, the total number of Networking Academies has grown to 39 throughout the entire Kingdom with many more new Academies across Morocco to be announced in the very near future.

Additionally, Amy Christen, Cisco’s vice president of Corporate Affairs visited Morocco earlier this month and met with some of the Kingdom’s most influential decision makers in the education and training sectors. Ms. Christen officiated at the signing of a strategic agreement with the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research in the presence of Her Excellency Mrs. Tricha Latifa, general secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Mr. Belcadi Said director of CNRST, and vice presidents of major Moroccan universities and colleges.

As part of the agreement the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research will work closer with Cisco Networking Academy in Morocco to collaborate on efforts to help reduce the IT skills gap in the Moroccan workforce and the setting up of new Networking Academies in all public universities throughout the Kingdom.

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