Bangalore: Cisco on Thursday announced its
collaboration with the National Institute of Open Schooling
(NIOS) to introduce the ICT curriculum in six select
Accredited Vocational Institutes (AVIs).
These institutes would provide IT Essentials: PC hardware
and networking Information Technology course to around 100
students each year as part of their offerings, the company
said in a statement.
"The course prepares students for networking and IT related
careers in the public and private sectors, as well as for
higher education in engineering, computer science and related
fields", it said.
The selected AVIs are located at Ambala, Bhopal, Balangir
(Orissa), Delhi, Mumbai and Shillong and "several more" NIOS
AVI`s are envisaged, the company said.
Cisco said it has trained nine instructors from the above
AVIs on IT Essentials; PC Hardware and Software at the Centre
for Electronic Governance, Jaipur from January 18-23, 2010.
As part of this initiative, Cisco would provide its free
web based curriculum, online course material of the Networking
Academy and 24X7 technical supports to the institutes, it said.
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