Territories
Studying from Labé
Labé anchors trade across the Fouta-Djalon and exchanges towards Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. You follow an IHETC programme online, turning already solid trading practice into demonstrable management, accounting and control.
Highland trade and its circuits
Labé is a trading crossroads: livestock and dairy, highland market gardening, leather and crafts, wholesale trade redistributed to neighbouring prefectures and steady flows towards Dakar and Bissau. Add to that remittances from the diaspora, which finance a large share of shops and building. Businesses here are family-run and often highly profitable, and what takes them to the next level comes down to three things: kept accounts, controlled stock and access to credit prepared by readable documents.
- Owner-manager of a small or medium business
- Company accountant
- Microfinance relationship officer
- Logistics and forwarding manager
- Small-business administration assistant
Studying between market days
Trade in Labé runs on long days and weeks paced by market fairs. The programme fits in because it runs at hours you decide: a module downloads the night before, reads early in the morning or after closing, and works offline. Live sessions are recorded, so you catch up when the shop is quiet. The assessment calendar is published in advance, letting you place them outside peak trading periods. A tutor stays reachable at any hour to unblock a point.
Your content, taken with you
A module downloads in Labé when the network is good, then reads and works offline.
Your exchanges
Per-course forum, group work and peer review, with your cohort and your tutor.
Your proof
A timestamped certificate, with a public verification link an employer opens without an account.
Programmes recommended from Labé
| Programme | Level | Duration | Pace | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Management programme — Bac+3 level | Bachelor's degree | 3 years | Full time | 4 800 000 GNF per year |
| Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 level | Master's degree | 2 years | Compatible with a job | 6 800 000 GNF per year |
| International Trade | Bachelor's degree | 2 years | Compatible with a job | 5 000 000 GNF per year |
| Entrepreneurship | Bachelor's degree | 18 months | Self-paced | 4 400 000 GNF per year |
The first qualification targeted, unit by unit
SME Chief Executive — Expert and executive — is prepared in 9 months for 70 credits and 700 hours, spread across 5 units of competence. The bar below gives each unit its share of that total: it is the official framework's own breakdown, and it describes exactly what the qualification attests to an employer. Each unit is assessed separately, and a validated unit stays validated, including if you spread preparation over several periods.
- Strategy and business model
- 190 (27 %)
- Financial leadership
- 190 (27 %)
- Leading people and the organisation
- 170 (24 %)
- Legal, tax and governance framework
- 100 (14 %)
- Executive conduct
- 50 (7 %)
Payment, from Labé
Fees are denominated in Guinean francs and settled from Labé by mobile money or bank transfer. A relative living abroad can cover an instalment: the payment is recorded in your name whoever sends it, and monthly or quarterly instalments remain available at no extra cost. A single amount covers the whole: the path content, supervision and marking, the tutor, assessments and their resits, the timestamped certificate and its public verification link.
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1 — The amount that binds you
Written in your admission decision, in Guinean francs, before any enrolment.
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2 — The cadence, chosen
Monthly or quarterly, at the same total as a single payment.
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3 — The payment, traced
From Labé, every payment comes with a receipt and the remaining balance stays visible in your space at all times.
Questions asked from Labé
I already run my shop. What does this add?
Method and proof. You know how to buy, sell and hold a customer base; the programme adds calculated cost prices, forecast cash flow, kept inventory and financial statements a bank can read. Those are the documents that decide a working-capital loan or a supply contract.
Are courses taught in French?
Yes, in French, with professional vocabulary explained as modules go rather than assumed. The whole site and all programme pages also exist in English, which helps when your trade runs through the Gambia or Sierra Leone.
How long does a full programme take?
Each path states its duration in months and its supervised hours on its own page, and the table above carries those values for the ones we recommend here. The catalogue rule is constant: one credit represents twenty-five hours of work, ten of them supervised.
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