Ghana 
Ethiopia 
Egypt 
Morocco 
South Africa 
Rwanda 
Nigeria 
Kenya 
- Essential professional development training
- Peer-to-peer collaborative learning
- Practical application of 8 key meta skills
Application deadline is 6 Jan 2025
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Duration3 months
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Commitment35-40 hrs/week, Online
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Start Date13 Jan 2025
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All Access$5 a month
3 months
35-40 hrs/week, Online
13 Jan 2025
$5 a month
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Part 1: Self Awareness
Figure out your personal career ambition by meeting members of your cohort and participating in workshops and coursework.
Part 2: Teamwork & Entrepreneurship
In a team with members of your cohort, you will develop your teamwork, management, and communication skills in an entrepreneurial project.
Part 3: Specialisation & Portfolio
Start looking at career paths in your preferred specialisation and understand how to build your portfolio and CV to showcase your new skills.
ALX All Access
ALX now provides more for those who want more. Access the ALX ecosystem for $5 USD per month including unlimited access* to world-class tech training programmes, with costs ranging in value from $1,500 to $12,500 USD. With the support of our partners, ALX can offer all eligible learners access to our programmes with programme costs waived.
* eligible learners may only enrol in one programme at a time.
Programme Value
$1,800
Programme Duration
3 months
All Access
$5 a month
Who Should Enrol?
This programme is suitable for people already working in tech, and for those who have no prior tech knowledge or experience.
- Years of Experience: 6 months
- Role: Junior Clerk
- Age: 22
- Country: Nigeria
- Education: Business Diploma
- Goal: Improve Technical Skills
- Years of Experience: 1
- Role: Voice Actor
- Age: 24
- Country: Morocco
- Education: Production Certificate
- Goal: To work as a senior radio host
- Years of Experience: 8 months
- Role: Digital Marketing
- Age: 25
- Country: Addis Ababa
- Education: BSc English
- Goal: Strengthen written and verbal communication skills
Your Learning Journey
By combining world-class tech training with essential communication, teamwork, and leadership skills, Professional Foundations helps mould you into a well-rounded professional who is sure to stand out among your peers.
Get to know the platforms you will be using, and familiarise yourself with the expectations of the programme. Skills Map Baseline • Peer Review Platform • Introductory Survey
Use self-reflection exercises to understand your professional goals, and learn to clearly define problems as a first step towards finding solutions. Google Workspace • Intro to AI • Google Drive
Create a work plan that aligns with your goals and learn how to present research to others so that they can easily grasp your ideas. Google Slides • Canva
Start your team project by forming a group with your peers, defining roles, and exploring the problem you’re working towards solving. Google Slides • Canva
Research the problem you’re working to solve with your team, design prototypes for your solution, and create a pitch deck with your team that synthesises your work. Canva • Figma • Miro
Use your learnings to define your personal brand by creating an elevator pitch, professional bio, resume, and LinkedIn profile. Now you’re ready for work. Google Slides • Canva • AI for Presentations
The Application Process
Your submission will be automatically saved as you navigate between sections of the application. You can leave the application and come back to it. It will be kept as a draft until you submit it, or until the application deadline.
Create Account
Create an ALX admissions account and confirming it via email.
Start Application
Application process will take 45 – 60 minutes. There will be a series of questions in the process.
Confirm Participation
You’ll get your decision immediately after completion. If accepted, you will be asked to confirm participation in order to secure spot in the upcoming cohort and will be redirected to e-hub.
Enrolment
For successful enrolment you need to log in to e-hub and complete the first $5 payment by the application deadline.
Payment Options:
Option 1: Multiple Months in Advance
Option 2: Pay as You Go
FAQs
In order to access the ALX ecosystem and your chosen programme, you will be required to pay the $5 All Access, giving you unlimited access to the full ALX programme portfolio, community, events and activities, rewards, benefits and, of course, our partners.
If you meet our eligibility requirements and successfully complete your application into an ALX Programme of your choice, the cost of your programme will be sponsored and you will not be required to pay anything other than your monthly $5 All Access.
A. All accepted applicants are required to pay their first $5 USD monthly instalment by the start date of their chosen programme. You can complete your payment through the ALX eHUB, with a variety of payment options available. Following monthly payments will be due one month from your programme start date. (Ex. If your programme starts on 18th November 2024, the first payment is due on that day, and the second instalment is due on the 18th December 2024.)
B. You can either pay the $5 USD All Access yourself or have someone pay on your behalf. ALX accepts all major credit cards, Apple and Google Pay, PayPal, and mobile money payment options. Some markets have cash options as well.
Learners can choose to pay either in their local currency or in USD. ALX fees are charged in USD and therefore are subject to exchange rate fluctuations.
ALX accepts a wide variety of payment methods, including (but not limited to):.
- Egypt: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, ApplePay, GooglePay, FawryPay
- Ethiopia: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, TeleBirr, CBEBirr, M-Pesa, Hello Cash, EBirr
- Ghana: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, ApplePay, GooglePay, MTN, Vodafone, Airtel
- Kenya: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, M-Pesa, Airtel
- Morocco: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, ApplePay, GooglePay, Cash Payments
- Nigeria: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, All Major Banks, Bank Transfer, ApplePay, GooglePay, POS, NQR, eNaira, PayAttitude, Paga, 1Voucher
- Rwanda: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, MTN, Airtel
- South Africa: Debit and Credit Cards, Paypal, All Major Banks, 1Voucher, ApplePay, GooglePay, Zapper
- Other African markets: many of the above options are available in other African countries as well
- For bank transfers, please check with your provider as bank charges may apply.
NB. For all non-card transactions (such as bank transfers, Applepay, GooglePay, FawryPay or mobile transactions) a 2% non-refundable processing fee may apply.
All Access payments are non-refundable and compulsory for learners to complete their programme. You will not receive a refund if you are unable to complete the programme, however you will be able to pause your programme and restart your learning at a later date. Please note that the deferment cut-off dates vary by proramme and after these dates you would need to re-enroll into the next cohort.
The first All Access $5 USD payment is due on your programme start date. All subsequent payments are due one month from your programme start date, and will be communicated in your eHub profile and over email. Should you miss your payment deadline, your eHub access will be paused and you will have two weeks to make your payment and reactivate your profile. Your access will be restored again as soon as your payment is made. If you don’t make payment within your two week reactivation period, you will be considered as dropped out and will be required to reapply to your programme to continue.
Please click on the following link to see our payment terms and options.
Application deadline is 6 Jan 2025