Malaysia - IT training for TAR College students

Since Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TAR College) and IBM signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) last year, TAR College has sealed the spot as Malaysia's first institution of higher learning to set up an IBM Centre of Excellence for Software Technologies.

The alliance, which was driven by TAR College's School of Arts and Science, aims to train students in order to meet the increasing demand for information technology professionals.

In under a year, 500 students have already participated in the training and even before graduating, have already been granted various IBM certifications.

With this collaboration, TAR College students will be able to gain exposure to software technology such as DB2, Lotus, Rational, Websphere and IBM Cloud Computing capabilities. They can also take part in activities such as IBM's SmartCloud Camp, the first of which was held earlier this year.

"IBM's 2012 growth strategy revolves around five key areas, namely expansion into growth market, cloud computing, business analytics and optimisation and a smarter planet.

"This will entail collaboration with academia in order to develop talents for the said areas.

"It will be an exciting journey and we look forward to having TAR College to be our 'co-navigator' to achieve our objectives," said IBM manager of ISV (Independent software vendor) and Developer Relations Long Fong Yee.

The Star/Asia News Network

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