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150 Students selected under the Huawei’s Fourth Information Communication Technology competition year 2019-20

Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has shortlisted 150 students for the 4th ICT competition year 2019-2020 launched by Huawei in association with HEC. In the competition, these students had free access to the courses and learning material along with online communication and assistance in preparation. By arranging this competition, Huawei is fulfilling its promise to provide equal opportunity for quality education to enable students to harness the benefits of the digital economy. The contest was aimed to shape students' ICT knowledge as per the employer's perspective. Huawei ICT Competition's roadshows and awareness sessions were held at more than 50 colleges and universities of Pakistan in which nearly 5000 students appeared in the first preliminary exam. Out of these candidates, 500 were selected for the second round of Preliminary exam. In the third and final round, 150 students were finalised for certification. Huawei authorised learning partners (HALPs) hosted these competitions.

4th ICT competition 2019-2020 launched in August by Huawei in collaboration with HEC. As part of the competition, Huawei offers all participants’ access to free courses and learning materials as well as opportunities for free online exchanges, learning, and preparation. By doing so, Huawei hopes to achieve the goal of an equal opportunity for quality education and that more people can benefit from the digital economy. Upgradation of teaching methods and connectivity with the industrial development will be focused. This will direct the students to perceive employer’s perspective by developing their ICT knowledge.

The Huawei ICT Competition 2019-2020, Roadshows and awareness sessions were conducted at 50+ colleges and universities all around Pakistan by Huawei authorized learning partner’s (HALPs) like Corvit and PDC KICS. The number of registrations reached 12000+ which is the highest record in four years & 4940 students participated in preliminary exam at 30+ university locations this year. Top 500 students shortlisted from this preliminary exam for round two which was the enablement training and certification exam.

Top 500 Students from Preliminary exams attended Enablement training from 24th to 26th of October and Certification exam on 27th of October at different locations all across Pakistan as well as at some remote areas also Including – Mehran University Of Engineering And Technology Jamshoro (MUET), Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences(BUITEM), National University Of Science And Technology(NUST), University OF Balochistan Quetta, University Of Engineering And Technology Taxila & different other key universities of Pakistan by Huawei authorized learning partner’s (HALPs) like Corvit and PDC KICS – In this round students attended different training sessions related to Routing & Switching, Security, Cloud and Storage. After these training sessions students participated in HCIA Certification Exam.

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