More than 40,000 students were trained through PHAROS in 2020, in more than 600 courses in the fields of engineering, infrastructure, energy, and construction. Nearly 100 companies chose this revolutionary continuing education model for their employees.
Let’s face it, 2020 was a particularly unusual year for everyone—a time when significant changes took place in people’s daily lives, altering every aspect of our activities, including social, work, and educational life. And yes, companies also had to adapt to new ways of working by using digital tools to stay afloat, reinvent themselves, and continue to do their best to meet the needs of new and existing customers.
Pharos It is proof of how digital businesses have revolutionized business models, growing by leaps and bounds within the education sector, especially in corporate training.
Where do we come from?
Pharos took its first steps in 2018 as a cornerstone of Stucturalia to provide ongoing training to all employees of its client companies, with no limits on the number of courses or the number of enrollments, offering technical and management training services through a specialized catalog of more than 650 courses.
As a result of a massive investment in content and technology, we had succeeded in developing what we had set out to create—and which today is an integral part of who we are, our very own Lifelong Learning Service for the global engineering sector.
In fact, any professional in the sector—and, of course, any human resources director—knows that the training process extends far beyond the college years, especially today, when technological and methodological changes are rapid and even disorienting. PHAROS was thus presented as a solution to keep employees fully up to date in their training, making them increasingly skilled and qualified, while also enabling them to meet immediate needs.
A stratospheric and exponential leap
PHAROS has already been implemented in nearly one hundred companies. Global leaders in engineering, construction, energy, and infrastructure have embraced PHAROS and have served as a driving force, encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt this new model of continuing education as well.
In addition, within each company, PHAROS is being promoted internally, and word of mouth among employees themselves is spreading like wildfire, so we’ve grown from a base of 5,000 learners to more than 43,000 by the end of 2020, with unlimited access to 650 courses anytime, anywhere. The leading companies in the engineering, construction, energy, and infrastructure sectors already offer PHAROS to all their employees worldwide.
The 47,000 hours of student training in 2018 quickly grew to 1,020,000 by the end of 2020. PHAROS has truly gone global, with a network of students from 72 countries studying from an extensive catalog of more than 650 courses—available in both Spanish and English—which is updated every year with 150 new courses.
Quality and service: our keys to success
Clearly, real-time monitoring of all the courses in the catalog—which are currently being taken by 40,000 professionals—is absolutely essential.
The more than 23,000 surveys received from students have clearly demonstrated their satisfaction with various aspects of the courses. In fact, 94.7% of the students taking courses at PHAROS recommend the course they took.
Quality surveys also reveal that students have been fully satisfied with the course content, the videos, and the platform in general. In fact, satisfaction levels across all areas continue to rise compared to 2019.
In this report We display, with complete transparency, all the ratings and comments provided by students in each course (more than 23,000 surveys available). In short, not only did we grow exponentially, but we also managed to improve on all the metrics we track in our dashboard.
Technology, Pharos's Indispensable Ally
Without a doubt, we have made significant progress with each new situation, which has allowed us to provide much greater value to our clients and enhance our service, as these are based on technology, for example:
- We partner with Amazon Web Services to provide real-time support, assistance, and service to all the companies that rely on us through cloud services, offering better terms as companies request them for their training programs.
- We work with our own artificial intelligence. In fact, thanks to Alexandria, The Pharos platform can support students in their ongoing education, as the system is able to guide or recommend the best courses based on each student’s profile and learning progress, ultimately leading to a fully comprehensive learning experience—which also directly benefits the company.
An Extraordinary Moment
Education, like many other areas, changed in 2020, which has shown us the importance of adapting quickly to digitalization and new technologies, something Pharos had already begun working on in 2018. To date, this has allowed us to offer our best to the various sectors that rely on our services, providing indispensable value.
We can proudly say that we aim to provide many more opportunities to people who want to take a leap forward in their professional careers in the broadest sense of the word. For this reason, the 70% course credits from Pharos can be applied toward coursework in 35 master’s degree programs offered by Structuralia in partnership with our collaborating universities: Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia and Universidad Da Vinci.
In conclusion, as you’ve seen, 2020 was a year filled with hard work for the entire Pharos team. This has resulted in our best results to date. In 2021, we want to help more companies and individuals reach their full potential.
