Jakarta, October 11 th , 2020 – Cakap, an educational startup that develops online learning applications with two-way interaction, has officially collaborated with President University to provide access to online learning for President University students and prospective students. This step was taken by Cakap as a form of support for President University in providing an effective and efficient learning platform to realize its vision of becoming a superior university, which can produce leaders who have an entrepreneurial spirit based on a multicultural mindset and have a global outlook.
By holding a free webinar event, every month Cakap and President University target 100 participants, from high school students, fresh graduates, to first jobs to attend the event. Cakap and President University believe that webinars are an effective way to meet the skill needs required in today’s job market. This activity will officially begin on October 11 with a webinar entitled, “Learning Foreign Languages is the Key to Achieving Scholarships”.
The first session discussed the importance of mastery of foreign languages in obtaining scholarships brought by English teachers from Cakap, Allegra Kartika, and Channy Anasthasia, an academic advisor from President University. Participants are given training on how to ‘sell’ the positives and achievements in foreign languages to earn scholarships. Besides, Cakap and President University are trying to increase awareness of the importance of communicating in foreign languages in increasing job opportunities in the future.
Michael Rino, Cooperation Director of President University added, “President University has foreign students from 17 countries and aims to become a center for foreign language studies in Indonesia. The collaboration between President University and Cakap is expected to accelerate this, especially as a digital foreign language center. ”
“President University believes that through a series of collaborative activities with Cakap it can foster the enthusiasm for learning foreign languages for students and students to continue to carry out their obligations to study,” concluded Michael Rino.
Cecilia Ong, Cakap Vice President of Business Development said, “Cakap believes that with the collaboration between the nation’s edu-tech and educational institutions, the synergy and impact on the education industry will be even greater.
“The plan for organizing this event is not only to increase participants ‘insights and share but also to prepare, to increase participants’ understanding that getting a scholarship opportunity abroad is not a coincidence as long as they are able to understand the keys to applying the correct strategy to obtain these opportunities,” concluded Cecilia.
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