SPPU, ICAI signs MoU to impart job skills to students

Besides providing students with internship opportunities, the MoU aims at providing skill-oriented education to students, conducting faculty development programs for staff and enhancing skill sets of students through webinars and seminars.

The Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with an aim to impart job skills to their students. While speaking about the collaboration, the SPPU Vice-Chancellor Dr. Nitin Karmalkar said that this is also another way to counter the coming placement season, which is expected to be slower this year.

“The commerce faculty makes up forty percent of our students. We will have placements coming up and we all are anticipating a slowdown there, given the current job market conditions. Hence, we have recently signed a lot of MoUs with organisations for internships and job-related courses… They will help give an edge to our students. Often we see that commerce graduates don’t even know the basics of banking, accounts and such. The ICAI has a country-wide network of professionals and getting our students placed under practising CAs will open more doors for them, ” he said.

Besides providing students with internship opportunities, the MoU aims at providing skill-oriented education to students, conducting faculty development programs for staff and enhancing skill sets of students through webinars and seminars.

CA Nihar Jambusaria said that while the MoU will help students work in companies while learning, it will also help practising CAs in pursuing post doctoral education.

Meanwhile, SPPU also declared the extension of the thesis submission by six months for the PhD and MPhil Scholars. As per the reports, the decision has been taken considering the COVID-19 situation. Earlier, the University Grant Commission (UGC) gave a six-month duration to the PhD and MPhil research scholars of SPPU and other universities to submit their thesis and dissertation due to the ongoing pandemic. Now the deadline has been extended again until June 2021. 

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