ISS to provide professional skills

Kathmandu, Nov. 15

With the aim to provide essential professional skills to the individuals and corporate houses, International School for Skills (ISS) was launched in Nepal on Monday.

"It will provide training and skill development services to needful people and corporates," said Pankaj Jalan, founder of the institution at a press meet organised to announce the launch of the school.

The ISS also launched IT Training Programme which will be provided in collaboration with the British Computer Society and will provide IT Level 4 Certificate, Level 5 Diploma, and Level 6 Professional Graduate Diploma in IT training in Nepal for individuals including students from secondary level to professionals working in IT and non-IT sectors.

"Students can train themselves in modules like software development, information system and computer networking in Level 4 courses," said Jalan.

A new online examination system, E-Jaanch, was also launched on the occasion. This is an AI-based assessment management system which is developed with the latest technology used for worldwide examination platforms.

E-Jaanch can be used for examinations taken for corporates and for educational institutes with more than 500,000 questions already set in the system for the clients/students to use.

ISS also announced that an agreement was signed between it and KPMG, one of the top auditing and training organisations globally, where the latter has agreed to provide its business excellence training programmes in Nepal through ISS.

"Through KPMG, ISS is bringing trainings in design and innovation, service design, brand strategy, agile practitioner training, data science professionals and lean six sigma green belt," said Jalan.

 Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 16 November 2021.