NIIT expands its presence in China

NEW DELHI: NIIT, an IT training company, has announced its plans to offer high-end IT training through 15 Centers of Excellence (CoE) in China. Through these CoE, NIIT would train top management, project managers, software engineers and IT users employed with IT companies in 15 provinces in China.






NIIT COO P Rajendran made this announcement while presenting 'Global Strategy for IT Competency and IT Training Solutions' to IT Heads of Companies in China and officials of Ministry of Information Industry and Ministry of Education. During his five-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing, Rajendran met with heads of Universities, companies and government officials.





Unveiling part of NIIT's strategy to expand IT training offerings in China, Rajendran said, "Our unique and synergistic business model, with software and training business complementing each other, gives us an incredible advantage to offer a comprehensive high end training to software professionals."





He said that the software and services industry in China has set up an ambitious target to propel the current $1.5 billion exports to $five billion level by 2005. To meet this ambitious goal China would need to step up the number of IT professionals from 590,000 to 800,000 by 2005. Rajendran attributed exploding domestic market, rising wage rate differential, favorable regulations and government support, rising quality of talent and growing Japanese off shoring to China as the growth drivers for China's IT services industry.


"However, for China to achieve this ambitious goal its IT industry will have to move up the value chain and keep improving the IT skill set," he added.




NIIT would be offering an integrated enterprise-wide IT training solution, Manage-IT, to address the complete IT training needs of an enterprise through aggregation of various proven technology training tools created indigenously by NIIT's Instructional R&D teams. The company's customized 'e-Tian Tong' curriculum has evoked considerable interest for high-quality training in China.