Six­teen par­ents from the com­mu­ni­ty of Ma­yaro grad­u­at­ed with cer­ti­fi­ca­tions in Dig­i­tal Lit­er­a­cy, Mi­crosoft Word and Mi­crosoft ex­cel last Sat­ur­day. The pro­gramme was de­vel­oped by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Skills Cen­tre (NESC) for par­ents whose chil­dren are en­gaged in e-learn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease from NESC, the grad­u­at­ing par­ents learnt es­sen­tial ICT skills, in­clud­ing cre­at­ing and for­mat­ting doc­u­ments, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty and pri­va­cy.

Ju­dith Bruce, class vale­dic­to­ri­an spoke of the par­a­lyz­ing fear that the on­line learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment once stirred in her, but ex­pressed her grat­i­tude for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to gain skills to ma­noeu­vre the dig­i­tal plat­forms. She en­cour­aged oth­er par­ents to not be over­come by fear, but rather take on a chal­lenge for them­selves and to im­prove the lives of their chil­dren.

At the grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny, In­dra Ram­roop-Ramkissoon, Act­ing Dean of the NESC’s School of Con­tin­u­ing Ed­u­ca­tion com­mend­ed the par­ents for tak­ing up the chal­lenge to learn tech­nol­o­gy. Ram­roop-Ramkissoon cel­e­brat­ed the com­pe­ten­cy of the grad­u­ates, stat­ing, “To­day you aren’t just leav­ing the NESC with a cer­tifi­cate. You are leav­ing with knowl­edge and skills to con­fi­dent­ly and suc­cess­ful­ly sup­port your chil­dren’s ed­u­ca­tion in this world of on­line learn­ing.”