UK company to provide IT training to 30,000 youths
BSS, Dhaka :
Ernst and Young (EY), a UK-based leading global professional services company, will provide world-class IT training to 30,000 Bangladeshi youths to meet the demand of skilled-manpower of IT industry, officials sources said.
An agreement in this regard was signed between the World Bank financed LICT project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division and EY on January 13, they said.
Of the 30,000, EY will give Top UP IT (specialized) training to 10,000 IT and Science graduates and foundation training to 20,000 youths of Higher Secondary level within three years, they said.
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the government has been developing a pool of 34,000 IT and IT Enabled Services (ITES) human resources of sufficient quality to support the growth of the country’s IT/ITES industry.
Of them, EY alone will develop 30,000 youths based on the needs of the industry including technical and soft skills by giving them world-class training, he said adding the LICT Project has launched a Fast Track Future Leader (FTFL) Programme to create 4,000 IT leaders in the country.
Palak said the EY will also develop quality assessment and certifications mechanisms and program priority skills to meet the immediate needs of IT and ITES sector.
According to the sources, the government and EY jointly are going to launch the training programme on January 31 by organizing a workshop to be held at the Sonargaon hotel. ICT secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder said Bangladesh possesses significant comparative advantage in the IT and ITES due to availability of a large English educated talent pool and competitive labor cost.
The training would directly benefit the 30,000 youths who will gain marketable and globally recognized IT and ITES skills, he added.
Sources within ICT Division the EY has been asked to develop curriculum in consultation with the reputed university like Carnegie Mellon of USA to ensure quality training.
Ernst and Young (EY), a UK-based leading global professional services company, will provide world-class IT training to 30,000 Bangladeshi youths to meet the demand of skilled-manpower of IT industry, officials sources said.
An agreement in this regard was signed between the World Bank financed LICT project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division and EY on January 13, they said.
Of the 30,000, EY will give Top UP IT (specialized) training to 10,000 IT and Science graduates and foundation training to 20,000 youths of Higher Secondary level within three years, they said.
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the government has been developing a pool of 34,000 IT and IT Enabled Services (ITES) human resources of sufficient quality to support the growth of the country’s IT/ITES industry.
Of them, EY alone will develop 30,000 youths based on the needs of the industry including technical and soft skills by giving them world-class training, he said adding the LICT Project has launched a Fast Track Future Leader (FTFL) Programme to create 4,000 IT leaders in the country.
Palak said the EY will also develop quality assessment and certifications mechanisms and program priority skills to meet the immediate needs of IT and ITES sector.
According to the sources, the government and EY jointly are going to launch the training programme on January 31 by organizing a workshop to be held at the Sonargaon hotel. ICT secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder said Bangladesh possesses significant comparative advantage in the IT and ITES due to availability of a large English educated talent pool and competitive labor cost.
The training would directly benefit the 30,000 youths who will gain marketable and globally recognized IT and ITES skills, he added.
Sources within ICT Division the EY has been asked to develop curriculum in consultation with the reputed university like Carnegie Mellon of USA to ensure quality training.
