Released on: August 19, 2008, 2:51 am

Press Release Author: FinessePR

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: The Institute of Computer and Finance executives (ICFe),
today formally announced the beginning of their first programme for Faculty training
by NIFM (National Institute of Financial Management), under Public Private
Parnership. This "Faculty Upgradation" programme a fully residential one, will be
held at the NIFM, Faridabad campus from the 18th to the 22nd of August 2008 and will
see participation of 20 faculty members of ICFe.

Press Release Body: The Institute of Computer and Finance executives (ICFe), today
formally announced the beginning of their first programme for Faculty training by
NIFM (National Institute of Financial Management), under Public Private Parnership.
This "Faculty Upgradation" programme a fully residential one, will be held at the
NIFM, Faridabad campus from the 18th to the 22nd of August 2008 and will see
participation of 20 faculty members of ICFe.

NIFM Faridabad is an autonomous training institute under the Ministry of Finance,
Government of India. NIFM is a strategic consultant to ICFe for faculty training and
is creating special modules dedicated to inculcating the right teaching methods and
methodologies in ICFe faculty. The training programme will focus on sharing details
of new developments in finance and accounts. The NIFM faculty will train ICFe on the
most effective pedagogy in order to handle students' queries as well as hone ICFe's
presentation and teaching skills.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr.G.P. Gupta, Director, NIFM said "We believe that
accounts and finance should not be the domain of few and students from across the
country need to be trained about the latest trends of industry in order to come at
par with their counterparts across the globe. For this the faculty has to be well
equipped with the necessary knowledge, information and latest teaching skills. We at
NIFM strongly believe in taking the standards of Financial Education to the highest
International levels and feel that Public Private Partnerships of this sort can
actually help the Indian cause".

The 5-day programme provides training to the Teachers of ICFe centers spread across
the North India in a number of new Financial techniques. The 'Faculty Upgradation'
programme will take place under Prof. K.P.Kaushik, Prof of Finance and Accounts,
NIFM. "We are basically creating a specialized "training the trainer programme",
wherein teachers from ICFe will be trained by our experienced Accounts and Finance
faculty. The 5 day programme will give them exposure to the financial education
which is beyond the conventional modes of Accountancy", says Prof. Kaushik.

ICFe has taken this initiative to impart quality education among its students spread
in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi and NCR. ICFe realizes
the need to not only train the future accountants but in order to do so, also
effectively and constantly re-train their faculty so that they can impart the latest
training to their students most effectively.

Mr. Santosh Mangal, Managing Director, ICFe says "We believe that the best students
are those who are trained by the most effective teachers. And who best to train our
faculty than the trainers of the bureaucracy. We believe that this programme will
help us retain our cutting edge over any other player in the business". The
programme will empower the teachers with the knowledge of new techniques for
optimally managing their regular work and bettering their teaching methodologies in
the field of Finance & accounts.

Mr. Mangal further added, "that it is the governments endeavour to provide jobs to
all our youth. With NIFM training the ICFe faculty we are hoping to help in this
effort. NIFM trained ICFe faculty will be able to considerably enhance the
employable skills of their students in even the remotest areas of India providing
the much needed platform for these students to be gainfully employed."

NIFM and ICFe aim to provide quality and professional training to faculty to help
them make students proficient in the field of finance, insurance, banking, taxation.
This Public Private Partnership is probably the first initiative of its kind in the
sector.


About ICFe

ICFe imparts training in the fields of Accounting, Banking, Insurance and Financial
Services. ICFe already has 60 centres running in the states of Haryana, Punjab,
Himachal Pradesh, Uttranchal and the NCR region.

The Institute of Computer & Finance executives (ICFe) has been in operation for the
past five years and provides in-depth practical knowledge to candidates by using
latest computerized techniques. The mission of the organization is to prepare and
provide competent accountants to the industry. ICFe has around 60 centers spread
across India.

About NIFM

NIFM will help ICFe retain its cutting edge, by training the faculty in finance and
accountancy. NIFM will hone the unique teaching methodology developed by ICFe in
order to reach out to a larger mass and will focus on the effective combination of
instructor led theoretical training and guided practice.


For further information, please contact:
Sunil Singh / Nidhi Gupta
Finesse PR
+91 11 43056200 (30 lines)
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