launched eight new programmes in collaboration with the Footwear
Design and Development Institute (FDDI), an official said on Tuesday.
The five undergraduate and three postgraduate programmes include
fashion merchandizing and retail management, footwear technology,
creative designing, leather goods and accessories design among others.
"These programmes will open new avenues for students and will help in
producing trained manpower for export-oriented industries working in
field of footwear, leather and other allied products," said IGNOU Vice
Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai.
According to officials, the courses will orient footwear industries
and their research and development laboratories to initiate new
educational programmes and to upgrade the knowledge of practicing
workers, semi-skilled and skilled personnel in footwear industries.
"Under this collaboration FDDI will impart full-time training and
IGNOU would offer the degrees to the students," Pillai added.
Citing the relevance and requirement of the collaboration, Rajeev
Lakhara, Managing Director, FDDI, said that with an increase in the
branches of FDDI and its students, it had become imperative to provide
degrees to the students so that the new programmes are at par with
other universities.
"With this new development, students would be able to apply for higher
study and also apply for central or state government jobs," he added.
IANS
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