New e-learning programme quick off the mark

A locally developed e-learning platform for freight forwarding and customs compliance learnerships is seeing scores of learners enrolling only three months after the launch. The year-long learnership from School of Shipping offered through the Transport SETA (TETA) allows learners to receive their tutorials and complete their assignments from anywhere in the world. “With the application window for learnership grants for this year about to close, we believe that a lot more learners will be coming on board as companies get to know about the advantages of the system and wish to join the existing numbers that are benefiting from the new platform. Whether you have one or fifty learners, we can help and they can start at any time of the year,” says School of Shipping MD, Jacqui Franken. With unlimited interaction possible, with online subject matter experts or tutors who are contracted by the School of Shipping to respond to queries within a stipulated time, the system also has built-in monitoring and alerting systems to the positive progress of learners and updates employers if any problems should arise. According to Franken, the programme has also been extended to individual skills training where companies can enrol their staff members on individual modules via the e-learning platform.