Train your whole team in one cohort

Deso IT Lab builds closed, hands-on certification cohorts for organisations: your people, your dates, your equipment or ours. CISCO, CompTIA, PMP and Data Analytics, taught in Kigali by practitioners.

Cohorts from 8 to 40 learners. Invoiced per cohort, on-site or in our lab.

An instructor guiding a group of learners beside a rack of network switches in the Deso IT Lab training room

14

Organisations trained

Companies, universities, institutions and sponsors

8–40

Learners per cohort

Split into intakes above 24

50+

Certifications awarded

CISCO, CompTIA and PMP, 2023–2024

100%

Lab-based delivery

Every module ends in a live exercise

Who we build cohorts for

Four kinds of buyer, one delivery model: a closed group, a fixed schedule and a certification at the end.

Companies

Bring your support desk, network team or project office up to a common standard, without releasing staff into a public class.

Closed cohort, invoiced per cohort

Universities and institutions

Send a class or a department. We schedule around lectures and report attendance and results back to the faculty.

Fits the academic timetable

Mixed institutional groups

Students drawn from more than one university or college, pooled into a single cohort with one schedule and one certification date.

Several institutions, one intake

Foundations and sponsors

Fund a cohort and receive attendance, assessment and certification reporting for every learner, in the format your grant requires.

Per-learner outcome reporting

What a closed cohort includes

Everything below is standard, whichever programme your group takes.

Your dates, your group only

A schedule built around your operations: weekday, evening or Saturday. Nobody outside your group is in the room.

Equipment and lab access

Real switches, laptops and datasets supplied. Delivered in our Kigali lab or set up on your site.

Reporting per learner

Attendance, assessment scores and certification status for each participant, ready for HR, faculty or a funder.

Exam sitting and support

Vendor exam booking, practice tests and a retake plan for anyone who needs a second attempt.

Cohorts we have delivered

What the organisation asked for, and what the group walked away with.

A support team seated at workbenches in a training room
CompTIA · 12 learners

BK Tech Services

Twelve support staff certified on A+ and Network+ over one quarter, delivered on the client site. First-line resolution rose from 46% to 71%.

"The desk stopped escalating things it could fix itself."

An operations team working at desks in an open-plan office
Data Analytics · 9 learners

Rwanda Logistics Co.

Operations team trained on SQL and Power BI using their own shipment data. Monthly reporting cycle cut from nine days to two.

"We stopped waiting for reports and started reading dashboards."

Students gathered around a rack of network switches in the lab
CISCO · 22 learners

Multi-university networking intake

Final-year students from three institutions pooled into one 12-week cohort. Nineteen sat the CCNA within a month of finishing.

"One cohort, three campuses, one certification date."

About Deso IT Lab

A physical lab, not a slide deck

Our mission is to deliver high-quality, hands-on IT training programs that equip learners with practical skills, industry certifications, and career confidence. Every module in every cohort ends with hands on real equipment.

Learners gathered around a rack of network switches in the Deso IT Lab
Book a cohort

Tell us the group and we will send a quote

Give us the number of learners, the skills gap and your window. We reply within one working day with a schedule, a per-learner rate and a total for the cohort.

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