Intercollars

What Problem Are We Solving
Wider access to quality education.Today, further propounded by data cost and bandwidth problems, most trainings in Africa are held offline. Training Companies often share training opportunities within their social circles like Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc.  This means most people who need such trainings but are not in those circles often miss out.

Our platform enables you to search, choose the right training programme, as well as ensure you get quality training. We are improving the access to technical, vocational, and professional training.

There are several thousands of offline training companies in Nigeria who provide important professional and vocational education but suffer from visibility. We are building a platform that allows these companies access become visible to those looking for the kind of training they offer. Therefore, we are building to enable offline training scale. 

Over 75 percent of Nigerians who seek university education fail to gain admission yearly. Universities cannot accommodate the demand. In total, there are around 150 private and public universities in Nigeria, with a capacity to carry 600,000 students. For a country with 180 million people, 62% of them 24 or younger, that’s nowhere near enough. These  ensures that millions of Nigerians are under-equipped to support the economy.

In the same vein, there are several thousands of small independent educational institutions that can provide an alternative to university education in specialised fields. However, due to low visibility, many of them suffer low patronage and lack of obvious competition ensures they are not as progressive as they should be. 

Therefore we are working to address this huge shortfall, by building a platform where we can 
1. Improve visibility for these small independent education providers.
2. Upon aggregation of these providers, gradually work on standardising the education they provide and supporting them to improve deliver quality education. 
3. Through this, we can enable millions of Nigerian youths and in extension, other parts of Africa, access quality post-secondary school education that can provide them economic opportunities. 

Our primary target market are 

Independent education providers.

Our secondary target market are

learners seeking vocational and professional education. 

We are providing a platform for independent education providers to help people find their training programs easily. We help them manage enrolments, student fees, and documentation through our platform. Providers only need to enlist their programs on our platform and get found easily. We will also use the power we get from providing the aggregation service to help them access funding to improve the quality of their training programs.  
For learners, we have made it easy for them to find quality training programs around them by validating and verifying education providers near them while giving them a wide array of choices to pursue their dream careers. 

We provide easy access to quality technical, vocational and professional education through an online platform at intercollars.com. 

For education providers, we enable them 
1. List their training programs for visibility 
2. Enrol and manage students. 
3. Share their training schedule and information
4. Accept payment for their training.
5. Gain visibility for their training institutions. 

For Learners 
1. We enable them easily search and find offline training programs around them. 
2. We enable them easily enrol and pay for courses they need. 
3. We enable them organise their learning programs and combine them for professional certificates. 

Our Platform

We currently use a web based platform at Intercollars.com. 

We are employing a new model of education called Modular Education. Modular Education contains strategies to scale formal and professional education among residents of low resource communities. We are leveraging and enabling Private Training Initiatives to Provide Qualitative Digital Skills Education to the large scale of youths who need education intervention. 

We are applying Modularity Theory also known as the Theory of Interdependence, a framework that explains how different parts of a whole product developed in separate standardized ways  can be fitted with one another as to work as a whole, in education. Post-secondary education are redesigned to meet professional skills demand in low resource communities. Modular Education allows independent learning faculties or academies run specialised and standardised programs that can form parts of credits a learner requires to complete a degree at a university. This design completely puts learners at the driving seat of their education allowing them to take courses in different accredited institutions based on their personal or professional needs and the urgency.

The core of our process is Modular Education, providing alternatives to traditional education by leveraging on independent local providers of training programs to provide qualitative education similar to or better than those obtained in universities. 

Modular Education presents a fundamental modification to the way higher education is delivered. The motivation for this is the obvious limitations in universities, especially in Nigeria. Although this design has the potential to eliminate several problems that beleaguers the Nigerian higher education system, it also has the capability to change how education is delivered throughout the world, especially in response to the speed at which the world is developing as well as the need to trim higher education programmes to the needs of the individual. 

The concept of modularity is not new. Fans of LEGO can already understand what it means to have specialized building blocks that can be fit with other pieces to make a complete building based on an imagined design. Modularizing education delivery may not be just as easy, but it is based on the advantages of standardization and customization with focus on functionality. Modular education grants learners the power to build their own learning based on their own needs, finances and convenience. 

Short term goal
Provide alternative education opportunities to ensure no one is left behind 

Medium Term Goal
Enable young people pursue economic opportunities as we make it easier for them to get trained to maximize these opportunities. 

Long Term Goal 
Create a more inclusive society where people have several quality options to help them live well, make informed decisions and build a responsible civic communities.  

Still at Propotype stage; So none at the moment


IN 1 Year: 500 education providers, 10,000 learners. 

in 5 years, 10,000 education providers, 500,000 learners. 

Financial barriers
Policy Barriers 

3 full time. 

Habeeb Kolade, founder of Intercollars, has an experience in the education field that spans 4 years. He has led a global nonprofit organization, One African Child, as Global Head of Programs providing new learning experiences for African children across four countries. He worked with Insight Africa, an education technology company in Nigeria in the capacity of Head of Growth, helping in product design and client management. 

Ugo Nwaokike is the cofounder of Intercollars and holds a LLM as a lawyer. His area of specialization is company law which equips him with the legalese of dealing with multitude of private education companies. 

Cyrus Majebi, builds our software platform and has over five years experience in creating educational applications for large scale use.  

We charge 10 percent of payments for classes done through our platform. 
We provide bulk training services for corporates and international organizations. 
We offer premium services to trainers who use our platform. 

Raising investment capital. 
Improving customer value to ensure retention. 
Commission on sales. 

Nigerian Technical and Vocational Education Board. 

IEEE - To help create more engineers to support Nigerian industry.