The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a six-month Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Diploma in Finance and Accountancy Outsourcing (FAO) in association with Accenture, a management consulting, technology services outsourcing company.
This programme is aimed to cater the undergraduate and graduate students from tier 1 to tier 4 cities across the country and will be available to million-odd students, said Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai.
“We have leveraged the expertise of Accenture to develop the course content and train the teachers and will deliver the content across in 43 programme centres in first phase,” he said.
The programme will focus on building FAO skills of the students with 10+2 or bachelor’s degree and above qualifications. Students need to have minimum 50 per cent marks with English as a compulsory subject in their respective programmes.
And they will have to pass a written test in English and Quantitative Ability to be conducted from between February 7 and 15 across 18 centres.
Application forms can be obtained from IGNOU study centres or downloaded from ‘ www.ignou.ac.in’ and last date for applying is February 15.
For more details, contact Prof. C.G. Naidu on 09910609528 or Rajesh Dube at ‘ rajesh.dube@accenture.com’. The successful candidates will be eligible to apply for jobs with Accenture and BPO companies.
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