VEIC and Marshals' Supersoft Technologies Ltd. (MSS) from India, authorised exclusive partner of Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd. (TCIL), signed a Memorandum of Understanding, for setting up a model IT training centre in Haiphong city, today. The proposed centre will train over five hundred students in the first year itself. Subsequently the centres will be replicated in other cities of Vietnam in a phased manner.

VEIC will provide the foreign partner with infrastructure, administrative facilities and will also be responsible for all promotional activities for this centre. Marshals' Supersoft Technologies Ltd and TCIL will provide technical support with faculty and course material, which has been designed to ISO 9002 standards. On completion of the course, the student will get a joint certificate which is internationally validated. The student can then be eligible for appearing for any international certification like Cisco or Microsoft.

The institute will offer courses ranging from six months to three years. The courses include specialised courses, bachelor of computer application, C & C++, JAVA etc, and others. The courses will be open for students at pre-university level, university level and also are aimed at working professionals seeking upgradation. The course curriculum will incorporate IT related English as well to enable students to keep abreast with international terminologies to facilitate quick assimilation into the international workforce. Unlike other companies which follow the franchisee route, MSS-TCIL believes in operating it's own centres to maintain quality of it's services.

Both sides fully understand the implications of the Directive of the Vietnamese Government to provide IT Education to 50,000 students by the year 2005. They also understand that this training is only the foundation for a much bigger objective of opening and operating internationally recognised software development parks and providing international employment opportunities to Vietnamese professionals. The foundation of this MoU rests on realising this objective.

The Prime Minister of India, on his recent visit to Vietnam in January this year announced a grant of USD 2.5 million for IT education initiatives for the Vietnamese students. TCIL and VEIC being owned by their respective Governments have also taken up the initiative of concretising this objective along with MSS.

Background

MSS is part of USD 200 million Marshals' group based in India having diverse business interests such as power transmission and distribution, infrastructure, logistics and telecommunication. MSS is the information technology arm of the group incorporated in 1998 and has an individual turnover of USD 10 Million. It is divided into five business groups which are: Education and Development, Software Development, Hardware and Networking Solutions, Multimedia and IT enabled services. The group has five centres in India and has successfully trained over 2000 students, many of whom are now placed in well known international companies in India and overseas. It also offers specialised highend niche courses like data networking and CAD/CAM. The company also provides customised corporate training for companies and an aptitude mapping facility for students to enable them to choose the right IT course based on their aptitude and interest.

TCIL is a profitable public sector undertaking under the government of India and has a network of operations across 36 countries. TCIL-IT is the IT arm of this organisation and is in the business of IT training & development. It's courses are designed to ISO9002 standards, which hold a stamp of international validation.

VEIC is the biggest national state owned corporation in the field of Electronics and Information Technology in Vietnam. It has a turnover of 100 Million USD. This company carries out governmental programmes for manufacturing computer hardware, Information services and are getting into the field of IT education shortly. VEIC has a successful track record in cooperation with foreign companies in electronics industry like Matsushita, Sony, JVC, Toshiba, etc.

For further information please contact:

VEIC - 15 Tran Hung Dao,
Tel 8247969,
e-mail: veic@hn.vnn.vn
Marshalls - www.msstl.com