Accenture and MIT launch a new training and certification programme

Bangalore, May 17 (UNI) Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, today announced a training programme for its workforce in coordination with the Professional Education Programmes wing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the top technology university in the world.

Announcing this to newsmen here, Accenture Group Chief Executive Outsourcing Kevin Campbell and India's leading Executive of delivery centre for technology Sandeep Arora said that the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy, through which the training would be imparted to over 20,000 workforce of the total 1.52 lakh across the globe was aimed at enhancing employees competitiveness with focus on educational excellence.

In India, the workforce was expected to cross 35000 by end of fiscal 2007 as against the present headcount of 27,000. India was likely to get a considerable portion for the training programme and over 4000 global employees had already enrolled for the programme to be taught in 18 months to 24 months free of cost, they explained.

The employees were required to earn their certifications, by completing online and classroom course work, apply their knowledge on practical assignments and pass a series of rigorous exams, they added.

They said the employees who successfully complete the programme would be awarded application developer or application designer certifications by Accenture and MIT recognising software engineering, system integration and application-delivery skills.

Answering a question, they said Accenture had invested over US Dollars 700 million during the last fiscal ending August 2006.

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