NIIT & Pearson Offer Testing Facilities in India
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Jul 14, 2008

NUT, which offers IT training in various technologies in the individual and enterprise segment, will offer testing for Pearson VUE's key IT clients. NUT students will also be able to use NIIT labs for testing and training.

According to G. Raghavan, president-individual learning solutions, NUT, "NIIT's relationship with Pearson VUE will strengthen our IT testing services, find develop a large pool of certified professionals for the global IT industry."

The alliance with Pearson VUE will enable NUT to offer Cisco tests for students and professionals aspiring to build careers in the infrastructure management space. NIIT and Cisco recently agreed to offer training on the latter's authorized curriculum, and enable Cisco certification for students aspiring to build careers as networking professionals and system engineers.

"This relationship will foster development of a certified talent pool to meet the growing demand of the industry, said Sarvesh Shrivastava, managing director, Pearson VUE Asia Pacific.

NIIT and Pearson VUE plan to set up testing facilities in Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune, in the first phase. The new facilities will offer Tests in the non-IT space as well.


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