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Center for Continued Education (CCE)
Center for Continuing Education in Abidjan

The Center for Continuing Education (CCE) is working in line with IUGB’s vision of being an internationally-accredited regional center of excellence in higher education. It has five divisions to cater to the growing and varying needs of its trainees and provide them with valued development opportunities.

  • Division 1: Leadership, Professional and Management Development: Our clientele are professionals, business leaders and managers in the private and public sectors as well as young degree holders. Our customized offerings enable professionals to advance in their career paths by acquiring relevant knowledge in management and leadership domains.
  • Division 2: Faculty, Staff and Instructor Development and Teacher Training: The target audience is university faculty and staff, and high school teachers nationwide. Our workshops, seminars, short courses and hands-on in-service trainings allow new and working professionals, avenues for professional development. It also revisits current teaching approaches and techniques to design pre-service and in-service training courses for high school English teachers.
  • Division 3: Workplace skill-based training and certification: Workers are provided with training in the main Computer Science domains of the workplace using applications in collaboration with the IUGB Microsoft Academy. IUGB is an approved Microsoft Certification training center. The Center for Continuing Education offers Microsoft Key courses in collaboration with the IUGB Microsoft Academy.
  • Division 4: Language Acquisition: Our clients are given the opportunity to enhance their linguistic performance in English and in French, regardless of their age and level of study. The division includes:
    • English for Academic Purposes, which prepares students who need to pursue their studies. The program gives the opportunity to its participants to be familiar with English academic settings and subjects.
    • Intensive English Program, which focuses on reading, listening, speaking, writing, vocabulary and grammar.
    • English Reinforcement: Classes are provided to students who need remedial courses to strengthen their academic English skills.
    • English for Specific Purposes includes but is not limited to: English for Law; English for Medicine; English for Business and Communication.
    • Conversational and Business French: a customized program, which aims to provide learners with the essential and specific linguistic skills that they need to accomplish their daily tasks in a French-speaking environment.
 

  • Division 5: Test Center and Test Preparation: IUGB is an Educational Testing Service (ETS) test center. The CCE offers improved and more efficient preparation programs emphasizing test taking techniques and strategies that test-takers need to guarantee a high score on the following tests: IBT TOEFL®; GRE®; SAT®; CLEP®; IELTS®; TFI™; TOEIC®; GMAT®.

 
IUGB-WAEMU Language Center Project

IUGB has been entrusted by WAEMU to set up and manage a modern Language Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for training in English and Portuguese. This project has been extended to the training of WAEMU staff in the Regional WAEMU representation Offices.

 

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Fatima Doumbia Koné is a Mathematics lecturer at the international University of
Grand-Bassam (IUGB). Among the courses she taught we have the following: Introduction to
Differential Equations, Elementary Statistics, Calculus(I,II,III), Transforms in Applied Math,
Introduction to Linear Algebra, Operations Research and Abstract Algebra.
She has a Bachelor degree in Mathematics (IUGB), a Master degree in Pure and Applied
Mathematics (AUST) and she is currently enrolled for a PhD in Mathematics at the African
University of Science and Tecnology (AUST), Abuja. She has also been an intern at the
Institutional Banking Group department within GTBANK CI (Garanty Trust Bank Côte
D’Ivoire).
She is a former IUGB student and she was the president of the science club in 2015.
Academically, her goal is to be a great researcher and innovator on the topics of asymptotic
theories in Fuzzy Probability Theory and their various applications to image processing. She
has good programming skills (JAVA, LaTeX, C++) and she is bilingual (French and English).
Over the years, she has been developing a method of teaching which not only put students at
the center of the learning process but also which deconstruct most of the stereotypes about the
inaccessibility of mathematical knowledge to everybody.
Regarding her research activities, she has been working since 2018 on the topic of integration
on Banach spaces and a preprint of an interesting work is available at
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04480. She is continuing with her research on integration but now
her PhD studies focus on Random Sets Integration in Probability Theory. Professionally, she
is a very active lecturer at IUGB and she is currently the faculty advisor of the SHE CLUB,
which aims at promoting women empowerment by providing learning, leadership and
networking opportunities.

I am currently Associate Professor of computer and data science in the school of science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB).
From 2000 to 2018, I successively worked as a research scientist at Independent Computing Research in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Assistant Professor at the department of computer science and
engineering at Université Laval in Québec, Canada; Research Associate at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) where I also received a Ph.D. degree in computer science in March 2000. Upon receiving a master's degree in mathematical and computing science
from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1990 in Japan, I worked as a research scientist at National/Panasonic, one of the most prestigious companies in Tokyo.
I am involved in research on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Semantic Web and its applications in a wide range of fields. Besides, I designed the current Data Science program in effect
since September 2021 in STEM. In addition, I am also one the founders and current President of the
Ivorian Association of Artificial Intelligence and member of ORBICOM, the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication headquartered in University of Quebec in Montreal (UQUAM), Canada.

Kwame Simpe Ofori is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the school of Business and Social Sciences. He holds a doctorate degree in Finance, a master’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in Telecommunications Technology. He is also currently a PhD student at the School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has taught courses in the areas of finance, computer science, computer and electrical engineering, and telecommunication engineering. Before joining IUGB he lectured in several universities in Ghana. He also worked with Ghana Telecommunications Company as a support engineer. His research interests are in the areas of consumer behaviour, technology adoption and trust in online systems and in recent times financial econometrics. His papers have appeared in several CABS-ranked journals such as Information Technology and People, Journal of Cleaner Productions, Quality Management Journal, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Journal of African Business, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology and Society and Business Review.