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IT Training IBM partners varsities to hone students' skills Our Bureau
Mr Shanker Annaswamy (left), MD, IBM India, and Mr Kevin R. Faughnan, Director, IBM Standards Academic Initiative, at a press conference in the Capital on Thursday. - - Ramesh Sharma
New Delhi , March 31 IN a bid to equip college students with industry-relevant IT skills, IBM on Thursday announced an academic initiative to partner with 300 universities to train 75,000 students in open standards technologies by the end of this year. The company would work with select universities that support open standards to train an IT workforce to fill new kinds of jobs that are emerging at IBM and across the industry, and would also aim at ensuring that universities have the most current, relevant curricula that map to the kinds of jobs that are expected. Universities piloting the IBM academic initiative in India include the Department of Management Studies and the Department of Computer Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University and Regional Engineering College, Durgapur.
"In a recent survey of 450 global chief executive officers (CEOs) by IBM Business Consulting Services, 75 per cent of the CEOs found education and the lack of qualified candidates as an issue impacting the business over the next three years. Hence, this makes the initiative by IBM worthwhile," Mr Shanker Annaswamy, Managing Director, IBM India, said at a conference here. "In India, we will offer assistance, curriculum consulting, IBM software, course materials, faculty training and support to the partner universities," Mr Kevin R. Faughnan, Director, IBM Open Standards Academic Initiative, Software Group, said.
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