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THE Pondicherry Government- run Industrial Training Institute for Men at Mettupalayam, near Pondicherry, has been selected by the Union Government as a centre for excellence to impart training in the plastic processing sector, Health and Labour Minister E. Valsaraj said recently. According to a press release, he said the ITI was among the 100 institutes nationwide selected under the 'centre for excellence scheme' to provide training in areas where demand was more for trained candidates. This sector has also been identified by the institute management committee for development, which would train candidates both in the practical and theoretical aspects. — PTI NIIT and UK varsity forge alliance Asia’s leading IT trainer, NIIT, has forged an academic alliance with the UK’s largest university, the Open University. NIIT, which offers IT programmes in nearly 30 countries will make available the Open University’s widely acclaimed degree programme–B.Sc (Honours) Computing and its Practice–at its education centres in 6 countries, initially, to students in Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria and Vietnam. This Open University degree programme builds upon the study that students would have completed with NIIT. An agreement to this effect was reached recently between the two partneringorganisations. Rajendra S. Pawar, Chairman and Co-founder, NIIT, said, ‘This alliance further builds on the academic validation of NIIT Programmes with nearly 20 universities worldwide and brings Open University’s globally accepted qualifications to NIIT students, in their own country.’ The Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, UK, Prof. Brenda Gourley,said, ‘The alliance gives us an opportuny to address the growing need for trained IT professionals from many more countries. The Open University ranks amongst the 5 Best Universities of the UK for teaching quality alongside Cambridge, Loughborough, York and the London School of Economics and currently has over 200,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. — TNS
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