Start-Rite School Produces Global Scholars in Microsoft Office Specialist

Nosa Alekhuogie

About 23 students of Start-Rite Schools, Abuja recently sat for and passed the Microsoft Office Specialist International Certification examination powered by New Horizons, a global IT training company, and partner to the school.

Being certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist, demonstrates that the students have the skills needed to get the most out of any Office even at a developmental stage. Microsoft Office Specialist expert is a trained professional whose skills are used in a variety of business functions across many different industries.

A Microsoft Office Specialist uses skills to engage in a variety of tasks such as word processing, data entry, power-point presentation and spreadsheet preparation utilizing the Microsoft office suite. The Specialist is considered an integral part of many businesses as they skilfully use an office suite to perform essential daily duties like written correspondence through MS-word, email programs, analysing data sets.

While speaking at the graduation ceremony organised by the College, the Principal of the School, Mr. Philip Reynolds, expressed his joy that Start-Rite School has been living to its billing as a top notch and front-line IT-driven College for many years and that the achievement by this group of students are glaring testaments to that fact.

He reiterated his delight at the productive strategic International ICT Partnership which her school established with New Horizons, a US-based, world’s largest International IT Skills and Certification Training Organization that has presence in more than 80 countries of the world.

The General Manager, Northern Region at New Horizons, Mr. Dave Abolagba, congratulated the students, management and generality of the school for the impressive heights the school has attained in terms of global standard education and in compliance with 21st Century IT-driven stance, which guarantees that all the students mandatorily undergo training in different International IT skills acquisition under its partnership with New Horizons.

He said the outstanding performances by the students, confirmed that Nigeria is blessed with sharp and focussed youths who in future, would emerge as Nigeria’s industry captains that will become tomorrow’s entrepreneurial giants like Bill Gates, Mack Zuckerberg, Google Boys, among others.

Abolagba said the set of young entrepreneurs have been convincingly positioned with their skills to bail the country out of its total dependence on oil and become an IT-driven country like India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, among other countries that are dominating the world’s lucrative Information Technology (IT) market.