Entry {Bank}, Africa’s main full-service industrial {bank}, has partnered with the British Council for the seventh version of the British Council Recognition and Excellent Cambridge Learner Awards (BROCLA).
The partnership is consistent with Entry {Bank}’s dedication to supporting the academic sector and recognizing college students who’ve excelled on nationwide and international phases within the Could/June 2023 and Oct/Nov 2023 Cambridge Worldwide Examinations.
The well-attended occasion which passed off Thursday night on the Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, testifies to Entry {Bank}’s model positioning and its strategic alliances with respected companions.
Entry {Bank} mentioned the partnership provides it a singular mix of world status, strategic networking alternatives, enhanced model visibility, alignment with company social duty (CSR) targets, and optimistic public relations.
Talking on the British Council Recognition and Excellent Cambridge Learner Awards, Chioma Kema Ogwo, Head, Rising Companies Workforce at Entry {Bank} mentioned the significance of schooling can’t be overstated, noting that it’s a sector Entry {Bank} is closely investing in.
She said that it partnered with the British Council within the seventh version of the British Council Recognitions and Excellent Cambridge Learner Awards (BROCLA) due to Entry {Bank}’s worth for schooling.
Ogwo mentioned that along with the awards introduced on the occasion, Entry {Bank} will likely be giving the profitable college students some {financial} help as they start this new part of their lives.
“We at Entry {Bank} are huge on schooling and we’ve got a number of choices for the schooling worth chain, from the mother and father – together with entry to finance for the varsity charges of their wards, entry to unique choices whereas transiting to go to their wards overseas, supplementary playing cards that can be utilized by their wards overseas and a lot extra.
“The colleges are additionally not unnoticed as we’ve got entry to reasonably priced finance choices for the colleges for working capital, asset finance, and college enlargement initiatives. Now we have a particular college account for colleges that acknowledges their distinctive time period cycles and provides a variety of non-financial choices,” Ogwo mentioned.
Earlier in his deal with, Senior Supervisor, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cambridge Worldwide Schooling, Der Riet counseled the 48 recipients of the excessive achievement awards and eight college students who’ve excelled throughout a number of topics to earn the perfect awards, describing their dedication to research and talent to excel throughout a various vary of topics as actually commendable.
He acknowledged Entry {Bank} for partnering with the British Council for the Recognition and Excellent Cambridge Learner Awards 2024 saying that it’s a vindication of the {Bank}’s dedication to selling schooling in Nigeria.
“I additionally wish to acknowledge Entry {Bank}. Entry {Bank} can be taking part in an enormous function right here and goes to moreover recognise the awardees who’re current within the room with awards. We wish to thank the {bank} for this help and partnership; it’s a testomony to the {bank}’s dedication to selling schooling,” he mentioned.
Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cambridge Worldwide Schooling, Juan Visser mentioned of all of the excellent learner occasions internationally, Nigeria is by far essentially the most glamorous, and acknowledged all of the profitable college students for his or her brilliance, ambition, energy, and for merely being excellent.
“We’re right here to have a good time 95 Cambridge learners coming from 37 Cambridge colleges, or worldwide colleges accredited to supply Cambridge, with a complete of 134 awards. Cambridge has an vital function to play along with the British Council in Nigeria in offering high quality schooling to our colleges and learners worldwide,” he mentioned.
Visser who averred that high quality schooling is the best driver to remodeling societies and lives, mentioned that the scholars gathered for the occasion are a testomony to that including “I do know this can be a huge day for you all and you’ve got labored so arduous for this second. Even with the disruption of a worldwide pandemic, you proceed to check arduous and obtain excellence. Folks typically overlook that the cohort of learners right here at the moment was extremely impacted by the pandemic and needed to work by that.”
The Excellent Cambridge Learner Awards are a bunch of awards that recognise distinctive learner achievement in Cambridge examinations all over the world. Awards outcomes are generated electronically utilizing Cambridge’s awards knowledge era system.
Cambridge awards are based mostly on total commonplace marks somewhat than share marks or grades. The learner with the very best total commonplace mark on this planet or the nation/territory will obtain the award for that exact topic.
The 2024 British Council Recognition and Excellent Cambridge Learner Awards occasion was witnessed by college students from varied colleges, mother and father, lecturers, British Council Nigeria officers, and different distinguished visitors together with Hon. Jamiu Tolani Alli-Balogun, Lagos State Commissioner for Primary and Secondary Schooling.
