New Delhi: The NASSCOM Sector Skills Council (SSC), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NIIT for three years to offer enhanced training programmes to students through its training campuses all across the country, NIIT said in a statement.
The alliance is aimed at training over 1 lakh students over three years and will offer training programmess designed, developed and endorsed by the industry through two initiatives- FSIT (Foundation Skills in IT) - for engineering graduates and Global Business Foundation Skills (GBFS) - for graduates of all streams.
While FSIT aims to develop foundation skills in IT, GBFS has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the BPO/KPO and the LPO industry. NIIT will also leverage its on-campus delivery model - NIIT Careers@Campus, to enhance employability skills of all graduates.
The training programme has been designed by IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council at NASSCOM and the programmes will be certified through the NAC and NAC-Tech assessments. The collaboration between NASSCOM's IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council (SSC) and NIIT will start by training 30,000 students in the first year.
"While diverse efforts and initiatives have been taken by the industry and academia at various levels, there is a lot that can and needs to be done. This initiative of NASSCOM with NIIT is a step-forward in the same direction and is aimed to scale quality of our graduates. We believe our initiative will go a long way in contributing towards achieving the scale that is required by the industry," NASSCOM president Som Mittal said in a statement.
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