India's premier business school, XLRI Jamshedpur, has announced a strategic alliance with ICICIdirect Centre for Financial Learning (ICFL) to offer educational programmes in the domain of Finance. These programmes will be contemporary and focused on helping working professionals upgrade their skills to meet opportunities of an increasingly dynamic environment.
"In the collaboration, XLRI will bring its expertise through curriculum design, quality of faculty, content development and delivery, while ICFL will bring a practitioner’s perspective by introducing programmes based on the industry requirements, participation in content design, delivery by practicing professionals and reaching out to learners with the proposition,” said Ashis K. Pani, Associate Dean, VIL Programmes at XLRI in a statement.
XLRI and ICFL have identified different programmes under Management Development Programmes (MDP) or Long Duration Programmes. These programmes could be in General Finance, Financial Modelling, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Mergers and other advanced topics in the broader realm of the finance. Initially, the collaboration will start with MDPs for 3 to 4 days followed by longer duration programmes extending up to six months.
“These programmes could be seen as events for continuous learning and knowledge enhancement by mid-to-senior level working professionals. A longer duration program would be relevant for those seeking a development in the functional skills on both broader and deeper aspects,” Pani added.
“In today’s competitive environment, there is a gap between those who are educated and employable. While the Industry constantly looks for the right skills, the learners look for training through reputed academic institutes with inputs on the fine points by practitioners," said Neeraj Joshi, VP and Head - ICICIdirect Centre for Financial Learning. "ICFL’s collaboration with XLRI will help us offer this proposition to learners.”