800 Lingua Students Graduate

Eight hundred students graduated with certificates and diplomas at International Training College Lingua last month.

The managing and founding director Ingrid Mettler congratulated the graduates for having worked very hard to earn their qualifications.

She said that at Lingua, lecturers facilitate learning as opposed to traditional teaching. The college modelled its class presentations from a mixture of theoretical in-class lessons and out of class experiential learning where students are exposed to practical processes that take place in real-life situations in industry and commerce.

This approach involves students visiting companies and seeing how the theory learnt in class integrates with the practice in work places.

She also highlighted that the college wished to develop a truly international graduate who is exposed to what happens in other parts of Africa and the world. This was to be achieved this through organised trips to other countries in Africa and Europe.

In 2018, Lingua students had a very successful trip to Ghana and Nigeria. This year, a trip to France and Germany is being organised with many students showing interest.

Students, parents and invited guests were informed that the college had almost completed the designing of the curriculum for degree programmes that were to be offered from this June, and work was already in progress for master’s degrees to be offered in the next two years. She wished the graduates well and urged them never to stop but continue studying.

The deputy executive director for the national council of higher education (NCHE), Sylvia Amanda Demas, presented a keynote address on behalf of the minister of higher education, training and innovation, Itah Kandjii-Murangi, who was pleased to note that Lingua is accredited by the National Qualifications Authority (NQA) and Namibia Training Authority (NTA) and registered by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) as a private education provider as per the requirements of the applicable laws.

She was pleased to note that the college had scored some remarkable achievements over the past few years such as decentralising services to other regions, institutional expansion and programme diversification.

She exhorted graduates to remember to thank those who stood by them: Parents, sponsors, lecturers and even their peers. She said that Lingua had remained at the forefront in providing quality and relevant education and meeting the excellence required in this country. The onus now remained with graduates to apply what they learnt through adopting positive attitudes and thinking critically. Only with this kind of mindset can graduates be able to turn challenges into opportunities. In a knowledge based economy, within every challenge, if analysed critically, lies an untapped economic opportunity, said the minister.

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