United Bank for Africa(UBA) has introduced a unique and innovative product called UBA Learn targeted at helping students achieve all-round academic success.
The product, an online learning platform for students powered by Roducate, was launched on Thursday with particular emphasis on helping students within the age range of 5-16years and 17-24 attain academic excellence while ensuring that the parents and teachers keep track and monitor their ward’s educational developments and performance.
UBA Learn is accessible online, through a downloadable mobile app and USSD code, and is open to both existing customers and non-customers.
Intending customers can have account numbers automatically generated once they enrol on the platform. The platform features academic curricula, continuous assessments and tests, financial education, learning/fun games, etc.
Speaking at the launch, Group Managing Director, Kennedy Uzoka said: “United Bank for Africa is a technology-driven company with enormous capability in business. Because education is key to us and is a fundamental human right, we felt a need to extend our capability to education, by revolutionising access to education through technology.
“That’s the main reason we are here today- to bring knowledge to the doorstep of everyone across Africa and other parts of the world, through this unique innovation called UBA learn.”
Uzoka continued: “The app is a distinctive and well-tailored product loaded with all the needed learning tools and required subjects put together in a robust manner that is guaranteed to grow with the student early on to when he or she becomes a young adult.”