Satyam partners Melbourne Univ to train students

New Delhi, Sep 18: Satyam Computer Services today said it has entered into an agreement wiht The University of Melbourne (MU), to provide employment opportunities for students of Melbourne Information and Communication Technology.

''This alliance will enable up to 10 MU students to undertake a software development internship with Satyam each year,'' said RBU APAC and MEIA Director and Senior Vice President Virender Aggarwal.

Satyam will also recruit as many as 20 software engineers from the university every year, he added.

Satyam CEO and co-founder Rama Raju informed that the programme participants will undergo a three-month training course in India and China. Upon completion of the programme, the company will place them on projects in Australia, or one of its other 55 global locations.

The alliance will enable both parties to carry out joint research projects, besides creating opportunities for the company executives to deliver guest lectures about the company's core competencies to MU ICT students.

In addition, both organisations will invest in collaborative research on futuristic IT solutions such as grid computing.

MU Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Breach-Maksvytis called the alliance a major coup for the university, and for Melbourne. ''Our students will have the opportunity for internships with Satyam, which will expose them to real-world problems in a commercial environment. It will clearly benefit both organisations.'' Last year, the company embarked on a similar initiative with the Victoria University, wherein the students received software training on the latest technology and were assigned to onsite and offshore projects, most of which involved data warehousing.

UNI