As an OWWA partner training institution, Informatics accepts and trains SESP beneficiaries in various Information Technology courses through its 32 Colleges and Institutes nationwide. OWWA shoulders the actual cost of training of up to P14,500 per course. The program allows scholars to have access to Informatics’ world-class IT education, giving them work skills which are globally competitive. OFWs and members of their families interested to avail of the training program may inquire and apply at the nearest Informatics branch or at their OWWA Regional Welfare Office. For more information, contact your nearest Informatics branch or view the e-flier below.

Informatics International College dominated the recently concluded badminton division, garnering the following awards: champion, men’s singles; champion, men’s doubles; 2nd place, mixed doubles; and 4th place, ladies doubles. “We’re very proud of our students,” says Informatics VP Stephen Bañares. “I’m happy to see that they are not just excelling in academics, but also in sports.” The Informatics badminton team is composed of the following members: Paul Kaiser “PK” dela Cruz, Prince John Sidney de Jesus, Carleans Rivas, and Derlyn Llena. PK dela Cruz was last season’s men’s singles champion, while this season’s title was won by Prince de Jesus. The team is coached by Ramil Billones.

With the center’s support to TESDA, staff, students and OJT’s will be joining the motorcade while some will serve as encoder’s during the said event.

This is part of our mission to educate and train global citizens to make them effective and competent contributors to society.

With Globe’s Campus Connect, Informatics Northgate is able to communicate fast important announcements (i.e. class suspension, highlighted events, tuition fee payment deadlines, release of grades, birthday greetings, etc.) to students, parents and/or faculty and staff.

Sending text messages to students made easy

Our students and their parents used to rely on radio and TV news for announcements of class suspensions during heavy rains and typhoons. When they couldn’t get news from any media source, they would have to wait until 7 AM to call the school to confirm cancellation of classes. Then it would be too late. Moreover, faculty and staff are deluged with text messages with the same inquiry which sometimes caused confusion with so many people giving out information. But not anymore.

Students and parents are now assured that the school would send text messages of important announcements as soon as these are made available by the proper authorities – Local Government Units and/or Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

Globe’s Campus Connect is online. Informatics’ designated personnel can access the facility anytime, anywhere as long as there is an Internet connection. Thus, members of Informatics Northgate community will receive real-time information. Furthermore, students and parents can communicate with the school via text through this program.

Students have access to centralized information desk.

This Informatics Northgate and Globe Telecom partnership was formalized at the opening of the current school year. This started with only a handful of student subscribers, but seeing the value of Campus Connect, more and more students and parents are now connecting with us. This facility is free for all Globe users. However, non-Globe users receive  announcements through their classmates and friends with Globe mobile subscription. It is indeed communicating beyond boundaries, beyond networks.

Informatics Philippines and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has partnered to bring free skills training under the Pangulong GMA Scholarship program. TESDA has also been a partner with JobsDB in offering job opportunities for their graduates and is currently doing job fairs all over the country to help alleviate the employment problems in the Philippines. Courses being offered by the PGMA Scholarship program include Call Center training, Web Design & Development, and Programming. The Project hopes to provide skills and competencies to job seekers through appropriate training programs that are directly connected to existing jobs for immediate employment and to empower private education and training institutions to offer relevant training programs that meet job requirements.

For details and requirements on the free trainings, visit the Informatics SM City Cebu Center at the Lower GF, SM City Cebu. Tel (032) 231 0380 or email smcebu_center@informatics.com.ph.

INFORMATICS PHILIPPINES
Informatics Philippines, established in 1994, is a multinational corporation committed to provide quality training and education in Information and Communications Technology to Filipinos. Informatics has more than 40 centers operating nationwide providing lifelong learning courses on Corporate Productivity, Business Solutions and Higher Education from undergraduate to postgraduate degree completions. The Company has won many awards including the recent 12th Asia-Pacific Excellence Awards (2005), the National Consumers Council (2001, 2002 and 2004), the National Consumers Quality Awards as Outstanding Computer School. The Company was also elevated to the Hall of Fame award for winning the International Master Franchise of the Year Award (Service Category) for two consecutive years (2001-2002), by the Department of Trade and Industry and by the Philippine Franchise Association. Informatics was also awarded by the Parangal ng Bayan Foundation with the National Consumers Excellence Award for Outstanding IT School in view of its significant contribution to the well-being of the Filipino Consumers.

Present during the contract signing were (from left): Mr. Sidri Hilario, Asst. Sales Manager JobsDB Phils., Mr. Ramiro Madarang Jr., Senior Area Manager/Center Manager of Informatics Computer Institute (ICI) Cebu, and Ms. Jayjay Viray, Managing Director JobsDB Phils.

Informatics joins Campus Network

Free trainings with PGS Scholarship

Informatics Philippines and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has partnered to bring free skills training under the Pangulong GMA Scholarship program.

Courses being offered include Call Center training, Web Design & Development, and Programming. For details and requirements on the free trainings, visit the nearest Informatics center in your area.

“Informatics is always thinking of improving its course offerings and quality of education,” said assistant vice president, Yoli Soliveres. “We would like to give our students the best from-the-source education and the best way to do this is to partner with the technology provider itself.”

Sun Microsystems is the creator of the Java technology, which is an in demand skill to acquire in today’s technology driven industries.

With ASEC, Informatics students now have access to the latest Sun technologies and the highest quality instruction through its Sun Java Certified Instructors, and curriculum that lead to Sun Java Programming certification.

“This is proof of Informatics’ and Sun Microsystems’ commitment to making Filipinos globally competitive. We want to position our country as a center for e-services in Asia,” declared Sun managing director, Dr. Cynthia Mamon.

Competitive businesses these days prefer employees who have certification on specialized areas like programming. Even IT professionals recognize the benefits of becoming certified like added credibility, higher employability, career improvement, and becoming more productive in the workplace.

Companies, on the other hand, are investing in their employees’ certification because they believe that a certified staff would be valuable in enhancing their services, competitive edge, productivity and efficiency.

Sun Certifications are recognized around the world and is among the top 4 granters of certification credentials in the world. Meanwhile, Java based web development and programming are among the top IT skills in demand globally.

Visit the nearest Informatics Center in your area for details and schedule of the Sun Java Certified courses.

Fast track learning of HTML, XHTML, and CSS is taught in module one. Then JavaScript’s application to web is covered in module two. And as most web applications make use of database servers, practical database concepts using MySQL are covered intensively in module three. Having already learned programming on the client side with JavaScript, the student then moves on to doing server side programming using one of the hottest scripting language today – PHP. And finally, the student learns to set up his website on a web server hosted on a Linux platform. Basic configuration and set up of the Apache web server is learned in the fifth and final module.

The course differs greatly from its counterpart offerings in other schools on one significant point – certification of training will require the student’s development and presentation of a real-world web application project, which he or she has actually developed on his or her own. On top of this project development, the student will be required to pass an online examination that will test his or her understanding of the techonologies as taught in the course modules.

What is LAMP?

LAMP stands for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. LAMP is a collection of Open Source applications that have been used together as the framework in building and running a website.

• Linux is the Operating System.
• Apache is the Web Server
• MySQL is the SQL Database Management System
• PHP is the programming language for the server-side application software

The software applications in the LAMP stack may be freely downloaded from the Internet.

Why is LAMP popular?

In an article posted on royal.pingdom.com, it is mentioned that nine out of the ten largest websites – Flickr, YouTube, PlentyOfFish, Digg, TypePad, LiveJournal, Friendster, MySpace, Wikipedia.- uses the LAMP stack in running their websites.

Quick Overview

• OS: Linux 7 – Windows 2
• Web server: Apache 7 – IIS 2 – Lighttpd 2
• Scripting: PHP 4 – Perl 4 – ASP.NET 2 – Python 1 – Java 1
• Database: MySQL 7 – SQL Server 1 (possibly 2)

LAMP has been a popular choice in web development because of its flexibility (open source applications continually evolve) and because these tools are free. The fact that high traffic enterprise websites, like the ones mentioned earlier, use the LAMP stack as their backbone would only attest to the popularity and reliability of using LAMP.

So with LAMP being the No.1 platform for web development, what does it hold then for the budding web developers? Let us see.

What is the average salary for a LAMP Web Developer?

Informatics is now offering LAMP training in all its branches nationwide.