STT Bandung in Indonesia signed a Memorandum of Agreement with eduCLaaS Pte Ltd, the international subsidiary of Lithan Academy from Singapore, to jointly offer applied undergraduate degree CLaaS® across Indonesia.
CLaaS® delivers Competency Learning as a Service to support digital upskilling for higher education students, working adults, and enterprises in the digital economy. It adopts work-based learning pedagogy with a competency-based curriculum for blended learning journeys that deliver tangible career and business outcomes.
Under the partnership, eduCLaaS at STT Bandung ‘s campus will deliver applied degree courses with an international work-study opportunity where the learners gain up to three years of work experience before graduating.
During the virtual MoA signing ceremony held on August 9th, Bapak Muchammad Naseer, S. Kom., M.T, Chairman of STT Bandung, gave his remarks on the new partnership, stating “This pandemic has pushed various sectors towards digital, especially sectors engaged in information technology. The pandemic has created a new space with a high demand for digital talent readiness. Through this collaboration program between Lithan eduCLaaS International, STT Bandung, and ITB STIKOM Bali, which is my lovely alma mater, I hope there will be more and more digital talents emerging from Bali and Bandung taking part in the international level.”
eduCLaaS’s Founder and CEO, Leslie Loh had this to say about the partnership, “Modern employers require plug-and-play graduates who can be productive from the first day of the job. Our 1+3 work-study degrees deliver seamless job induction before graduation: with 1 year of intensive skills acquisition bootcamp and 3 years of on-the-job training at the workplace. Our learners are Glocal (Global yet Local) digital talents as they engage in borderless learning and working, alongside international learners and employers, supported by over 100 regional campuses from across Asia.”
He further added, “We welcome STT Bandung for joining our Pan-Asia eduCLaaS platform to incubate Glocal (Global yet Local) digital talents ready for growth in the post-Covid digital economy.”
About Lithan and eduCLaaS
Lithan Academy is an accredited training organization endorsed by various government agencies under Singapore’s ministry of education. We are EduTrust certified by the Council for Private Education (CPE) and a Centre for Continuous Education and Training (CET) appointed by SkillsFuture (SSG) Singapore. We are also an accredited international training center for Pearson UK.
eduCLaaS Pte Ltd is Lithan’s international subsidiary hosting our Pan-Asia eduCLaaS platform that connects higher education students, working adults, enterprises, employers, and higher education institutions for digital upskilling, digital career progression, digital transformation, and agile workforce development.
Lithan and eduCLaaS have served over 30,000 learners and 2000 enterprises with our network of over 100 campuses across Asia.
About STT Bandung
Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Bandung is one of the universities in Bandung which was established in 1991, thousands of graduates have been scattered in many government and private companies nationally and internationally. STT Bandung was established with the aims of being competent in their fields and able to face global challenges, able to take advantage of various opportunities around them, and have a high entrepreneurial spirit in hopes of becoming a successful entrepreneur and can create employment.
Currently, around 3500 Active Students are enrolled at STTBandung, which consists of Industrial Engineering (S1), Informatics (S1), and Visual Communication Design (S1) and Digital Business (S1) programs. STTBandung has also collaborated with several institutions and universities nationally and internationally. In addition, STTBandung also has many Lecturers' and Students' Achievements that have been achieved, both at National and International levels. One of the lecturers' achievements is lecturer research grants, both from DIKTI and DRPM, the number of which is always increasing.
In addition to lecturer achievements, STT Bandung also has students' achievements, both in academic and non-academic fields. These achievements include achievements at the national and international levels.