With
the agreement, Babcock has become the first university in Nigeria to
offer such a course in aviation. The programme is to run between 12 and
18 months period.
Airline distribution solution provider, Sabre Network West Africa,
Alpha First Travel & Tourism Academy and Babcock University, Ilisan
Remo, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commence
Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA), programme in aviation
studies.
With the agreement, Babcock has become the first university in
Nigeria to offer such a course in aviation. The programme is to run
between 12 and 18 months period.
The President, Sabre Network West Africa, Gbenga Olowo, said the
programme in aviation studies was opened to all first degree graduates
in any discipline anywhere in the world.
Olowo assured that the programme would help to provide manpower for
the nation’s aviation industry. He explained that the company chose
Babcock because of its integrity and willingness to work with the
organisation.
He expressed as disturbing the trend to have fresh graduates turning
out to be unemployable without further training programmes. But with
this partnership with Babcock, he was hopeful that Nigerian graduates,
who intend to work in the aviation industry, would improve their
knowledge of the local sector.
Olowo noted that the first set of students would resume in September
this year when the school is expected to resume for another academic
session.
He said: “We are expecting as many as many people. In fact, we are
thinking of 180 million Nigerians. Luckily, there is no university in
Nigeria or on the continent that runs this programme. So, we are
pioneering his programme. International Air Transport Association (IATA)
and Maevis are conceptualising their own now and we are ahead of them.”
source: http://guardian.ng
