College Offers BlackBerry Certification

The Ontario-based triOS College announced last week that it will be the first Canadian academic institution to implement the new BlackBerry certification program.

The BlackBerry Certification course, available this fall, will include the BlackBerry Certified System Administrator, BlackBerry Server Support and BlackBerry Certified Support Specialist, according to triOS College CEO Frank Gerencser. They will come as part of the Network Engineer Diploma. (IT managers off the street are out of luck, though: only diploma candidates can take courses, and the Certifications are unavailable on a piecemeal basis to outsiders.)

triOS wanted to get on board with the new certification–which was announced by Research in Motion in May –after the requests for BlackBerry-savvy interns started rolling in.

“They want network support technicians who know Microsoft network servers, Exchange…and BlackBerry Enterprise Server,” Gerencser. “It’s become one of the dominant communication tools in Canada for business, and adding that Certification will stack the deck for our graduates.”

Read the whole article at itbusiness.ca.