JEDDAH, 4 August 2006 — Effat College recently concluded a partnership deal with the Millennium Institute in Safa, Jeddah, as part of its Cisco networking academy program.
In a statement, the college said that the Millennium Institute would work with Effat in embedding the Cisco CCNA and IT essential curricula into its networking programs. The statement added that the college would provide support services to the institute.
“These include assistance with lab set-up, ongoing technical support, training of instructors, and authorized use of the internationally-recognized Cisco online curriculum,” said Effat College.
Millennium Institute, which was launched in 2000, offers computer courses such as A+, Network, Security and Linux and Cisco diploma courses including CCNA and CONP.
“One of the institute’s missions is to introduce professionals using an international standard curriculum and state-of-the-art technology by which they can lead their areas of specializations,” said Abdulmoeen Saleh, Effat College’s manager for IT programs.
Effat offers a six-month program and a two-year diploma in networking, and trains women to become Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA). The six-month program targets IT professionals as well as computer science information systems graduates.
The college said that in this course Effat and affiliated local academies would cover CCNA Orientation, Networking Essentials, Router Theory and Technology, Advanced Routing and Switching, and Advanced Network and Management.
Students who successfully complete the program will be eligible for CCNA certification from the Cisco Networking Academy and Effat College.
The curriculum for diploma covers English language for special purposes, fundamentals of computer science, digital circuits, introduction to programming, computer architecture, object oriented programming, data base systems, special topics in computer sciences and four CCNA networking courses.
Akila Sarirete, coordinator of Effat’s Cisco Networking Academy Program, invited other training and educational institutions to join the program. “Interested training centers should contact Effat College for more information,” she said.
Founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University in California, US, Cisco Systems has become a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.
