Aptech plans centres in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia

IT education and training institute Aptech is planning to open centres in Afghanistan, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia as part of its overseas expansion plans.

"We are also plannig to set up offices in Vietnam and Nigeria," Pramod Khera, CEO and managing director, Aptech said.

Aptech trains students under its various programmes - Aptech Computer Education (ACE-software engineering) and Arena (multimedia training).

"We are opening one ACE centre in Afghanistan, one Arena and three ACE centres in Jordan and one Arena and two ACE centres in Syria," Khera added.

The company is establishing one Arena centre exclusively for women in Saudi Arabia.

Aptech has close to 400 centres overseas, majority of ACE centres.    "We are witnessing a lot of growth in China where we have been able to open 250 centres in the last five years and capture 32.1% marketshare," he said.