XLRI ties-up with Reliance WebWorld to offer MDPs and HR courses

Mumbai, Mar 13 (UNI) In the second initiative of its kind, Xaviers Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, one of Asia's best Human Resource (HR) institutes, has tied-up with Reliance WebWorld to launch its Post-Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management (PGCHRM) programme.

This follows XLRI launching its Post-Graduate Certificate in Logistics Supply Chain Management (PGCLSCM) programme on Reliance's e-learning platform, stated a press release issued here today.

In addition to this, XLRI is also launching a package of Management Development Programmes (MDPs) through the partnership.

The 14-month-long PGCHRM progamme would target high-potential mid-career HR managers looking to move up the career ladder and would be available in Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Jamshedpur, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune at Reliance WebWorld outlets.

The MDP package, targeted at corporates interested in upgrading the skills of their executives by the recognised faculty without disturbing their daily office schedule, includes programmes from all function areas such as mentoring and coaching, improving marketing productivity, and ''Finance for Non-Finance Executives''.

Reliance's virtual classrooms that use the WebWorld's state-of-the-art video conferencing facility to reach out to students across locations on a real-time basis are as good as the real brick-and-mortar ones, stated the release, adding that the students can not only see and hear the professor live as they would in a real class room, but they can also interact with him and fellow students at other locations.

''Those who miss the lecture can later catch up with the video recording on-demand at the WebWorlds,'' added the release.

Talking about the programme Director XLRI Jamshedpur Father N Casimir Raj SJ said, ''our tie-up with RWW to offer the PGCHRM and MDPs on the real broadband platform will take the management training expertise of our faculty to several virtual classrooms across India. This program is a part of XLRI's larger plans to upskill corporate India by offering premium management programmes right at the doorstep of its managers without hampering their existing jobs.'' Reliance WebWorld CEO Sarup Chowdhary described the tie-up as a testimony of his company's technological capabilities and reach.

''Given the huge gap between supply and demand of quality education in India, we see our role as the facilitator only growing in future,'' he said.

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