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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

Glossary

Practical work: hands on the equipment

Practical work places the student in front of the installation, real or simulated, with a task to carry through. That is where professional technique takes hold for good. These sessions count among the programme's taught hours.

Doing, then redoing until the move is sure

Practical work means carrying a complete task on a piece of equipment or a technical environment: configuring a network, diagnosing a fault, locking out an installation, running a test protocol. The move is broken down, executed, corrected, then repeated until it becomes sure. These sessions count within the taught hours and lend themselves particularly well to assessment in situation.

  • A complete task, carried from diagnosis to final check
  • The move is broken down, corrected, then repeated until sure
  • Sessions count within the taught hours

The environments provided

The Networks and Cloud Computing programme provides complete environments to configure, secure and bring back into service. The Industrial Maintenance and Energy programme works on simulated installations: diagnosis, intervention, lockout, final check and writing the report.

taught on the Networks and Cloud programme
1200 h
taught on the Industrial Maintenance programme
1200 h
modules in the Industry and Safety field
140
taught per credit, practical sessions included
10 h

Programmes with a strong practical share

2 catalogue programmes put “Practical work” to work: 240 credits and 2400 taught hours in total. The official rule holds throughout — one credit stands for 25 hours of work, 10 of them taught. Every line below is recomputed from the programme page: level, duration, credits, taught volume and fees in Guinean francs appear exactly as filed in the official catalogue.

ProgrammeLevelDurationVolumeFees
Networks and CloudBachelor's degree2 years120 credits · 1200 taught hours5 600 000 GNF per year
Industrial Maintenance and EnergyBachelor's degree2 years120 credits · 1200 taught hours5 400 000 GNF per year
Practical work: hands on the equipment — Glossary | IHETC — IHETC