Monday, July 30, 2007 PhilNITS appoints CIT as academic partner
THE Philippine National IT Standards Foundation (PhilNITS) has appointed Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT) as a certified academic partner in adopting and integrating PhilNITS standards and IT curriculum.
PhilNITS president Maricor Akol said CIT would integrate Japanese IT standards in its curriculum and offer short-term training and review programs based on the PhilNITS curriculum that would cater to the IT professionals from the Visayas and Mindanao regions.
As a certified academic partner of PhilNITS, CIT will conduct PhilNITS review classes for its students and IT professionals who would take the regular Fundamental IT Engineers (FE) certification exams scheduled on October this year.
PhilNITS would also provide CIT with the review materials for the FE certification exams including sample problems, exercises, presentation slides and other materials needed by students and applications for the exams.
A memorandum of understanding of the partnership between PhilNITS and CIT was recently signed by PhilNITS president Maricor Akol and CIT SPS/MIS director Bernard Villamor.
The other PhilNITS certified academic partners include St. Mutien College in Pampanga, Nova Computer College, Centro Escolar University, San Beda, San Sebastian Recoletos, Asia Pacific College, MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Josefina H. Cerilles State College, Eduquest, STI Services Group, University of San Carlos, University of San Jose Recoletos, PAPSCU, and UP-ITTC.
