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January 2010 / Times of India / Pune Edition
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 BVU tie-up to offer courses in China
Pune: The Bharati Vidyapeeth University’s Amplify Mindware Department of Infotech and Management has set up an academic campus at Qingdao in the Chinese province of Shandong. The academy will offer full-time degree courses in IT and management, beginning June 2010.
The development comes as part of the formal understanding between the Chinese state-owned Qingdao Software Park (QSP), the Qingdao University of Technology (QUT) and the BVU-Amplify, which is a unique industry-institute initiative, to aid a healthy roll out of trained manpower for IT industry in China.
The Times Of India (issue dated December 22, 2007) was first to report about the BVU-Amplify’s initiative towards tapping the Chinese market, initially by way of offering corporate training to executives and professionals at Indian as well as global multinationals operating from major cities like Shanghai, Qingdao and Weifang, among others. “We wanted to expand our footprint in China,” said Joy Basu, CEO, Amplify Mindware, while speaking to TOI on Friday about the new campus activity.
Basu said, “The QSP has been mandated by the Chinese government to promote IT and management studies at 39 universities in China. Our understanding enables us to start initially with a full-time bachelors programme in IT and masters programme in IT as well as management at these varsities. The courses have been designed by BVU-Amplify, while the infrastructure and allied support has been provided by the QSP and the QUT.”
Last week, a high-level delegation from the Shandong province, including the president of QUT and the CEO of the QSP, called on the BVU vice-chancellor, Shivajirao Kadam, and other authorities here to finalise details about the Qingdao campus activity.
Basu said, “Emerging trends in IT and best practices in business management are the streams offered by BVU-Amplify. These structured programmes have been customised to the Chinese requirements and are targeted at the Chinese university graduates, post-graduates as well as young professionals.”
He said, “Initiating e-learning and computer-based training; localised content and delivery methodolgy; providing subject matter experts and professors; diploma, degree certificates in partnership with Chinese universities and language training forms part of the entire project plan.”
According to Basu, “The Chinese varsities have also evinced keen interest in short-term diploma programmes of about four-month duration that can lead the trainees to jobs. We have started talking about these programmes with the local IT industry. Apart from Indian companies, a large number of corporates from South Korea, Japan, Europe and the United States operate in the Chinese IT sector.”
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