Collaboration: TEVTA to arrange Microsoft training

TEVTA to bear the expenses of the training and examination

LAHORE: Microsoft will train 100,000 students in three years, Technical Education and Vocation Training Authority (TEVTA) chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said on Tuesday.

He was talking to Microsoft Country Head Nadeem Aslam Malik at TEVTA Secretariat.

Sheikh said that the training would be provided at 117 TEVTA institutes in the Punjab. “They will be given training in MS Word, Power Point and Excel. They will be called Microsoft Office Specialists,” he said.

He said that the TEVTA would bear the expenses of the training and examination. “Our collaboration with Microsoft is in line with policy guidelines to give IT training to the youth. At present, IT courses are the part of all the Diploma of Associate Engineer (DAE) courses. Now the TEVTA will also include them in its short courses. Teachers will be given training and new IT inductions will also be made where required,” he said.

Malik said that Microsoft would collaborate with the TEVTA to promote Microsoft courses to provide students skills required to be successful in the modern world. “There over 17,000 Microsoft IT Academy members in 133 countries. Academic institutions worldwide look to the Microsoft IT Academy programme and Microsoft Certifications to offer the latest IT education programmes,” he said. TEVTA Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmed Qureshi, Amir Aziz and Azhar Iqbal Shad were present.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 1^st, 2016.