Cisco® announced a series of country-specific initiatives aimed at expanding India's capacity to train, employ and retain highly qualified networking and systems engineers. According to a recent IDC report on global skills, India's surging economic development will create a demand for 137,000 more networking professionals by 2009. As an integral part of the training-development initiative, Cisco announced that two of India's largest technologies training organizations, IIHT and NIIT, have become Cisco Certified Learning Solutions Partners. With this designation, both IIHT and NIIT join Global Knowledge and Training Partner Ltd., a business unit of Datacraft India, in offering the complete range of authorized Cisco training materials and certifications to students and professionals in more than 200 locations throughout the country.
In concert with these new partnerships, Cisco is also announcing a major push toward increasing access to its examination facilities through its primary test-delivery partner, Pearson VUE. The company is committed to adding 150 testing facilities that meet these new requirements across India by the end of the year. To further close the digital divide, Pearson VUE will also deploy several mobile testing centers to increase access to technology in rural and underserved areas. Pearson VUE recently announced that it is requiring its test centers to adopt increased security measures in order to safeguard the value of IT certifications.
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