Chinese telecom giant Huawei and the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has set up an ICT academy to equip young learners with industry-fit skills and develop a talent ecosystem.

This ICT academy has been established as a non-profit education programme where the learners will be provided training and learning solutions to meet the needs of the ICT sector.

An opening ceremony was organised Wednesday at BUET.

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State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak was present at the event as the chief guest and Pan Junfeng, CEO of Huawei Bangladesh, Dr Satya Prasad Majumder, vice-chancellor of BUET, were also present.

The participants in the academy's programme will get a chance to communicate with more than 3,000 instructors from around the world.

There will be 83 certification programmes on 19 different subjects as per the current plan.

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The course and certification will be coordinated by Huawei Authorized Information and Network Academy.

Students will get three types of grade certificates based on their achievements from the ICT Academy – associate, professional, and expert. 

Satya Prasad said: "The academy will contribute significantly to the existing curriculum of BUET as well as help the aspiring learners to develop themselves by acquiring hands-on experience and get insights about the industry."

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Huawei Bangladesh CEO Pan Junfeng said: "In 2013, Huawei initiated its ICT Academy, a school-enterprise cooperation project, to help build a talent ecosystem. Huawei is happy to extend this project to Bangladesh as well."

The journey of Huawei BUET ICT Academy will also begin with around 250 students initially. 

Huawei has more than 1500 such ICT academies in over 90 countries around the world.

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To date, the academies have started their activities in many other countries, including Pakistan, Zambia, and China.