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Education Direct
1. Services rendered: The following services are provided by the Education Directorate to all members.
a) Professional Certifications to Individual members and common public.
b) Contemporary technology, domain, productivity improvement training programmes to members and the public.
c) Fostering focused research by the academic community through sponsorship.
d) Reaching IT to the masses and the under privileged by way of conducting certification exams to facilitate their absorption by industry.
e) Nurturing the IT skills of budding IT professionals by sponsoring them for International Software competitions.
f) Reaching the benefits of CSI affiliations with other professional bodies to all its members.
g) Membership services for academic institutions and students including student chapters.
h) Grant of accreditation to professional programmes after careful evaluation for value delivery and credibility.
i) Collaboration with vendors, training and certification agencies to reach technology and skill updates and certifications to CSI members.
2. Certification examinations: When CSI was founded in 1965, Information Technology was in a nascent stage globally, more so in India. To ensure supply of quality professionals to the budding IT industry, CSI took the initiative of being a neutral professional body that would vouch for skills possessed by professionals. This was done by administration of examination based certifications. Around 25,000 professionals earned certifications in various areas like software testing, software engineering, programming languages, database management systems and networking. Industry accorded ready recognition for CSI certifications by virtue of the professional capability evidenced in the certified professionals. CSI also conducted DOEACC ‘O' and ‘A' level examinations for aspiring professionals. 60,000 individuals benefited by gaining industry recognized certification through these examinations.
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