The department of higher education, Punjab, in collaboration with Punjab Infotech, has introduced a programme "Punjab Training on Soft Skills (PTOSS)" in 25 government colleges of the state to provide basic training to students in business process outsourcing (BPO). | |
| According to sources in the higher education department, there was a need to develop communication skills and soft skills among students of government colleges. |
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| The Global Voice - a training institute has been selected as the training partner for this project. |
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| The course includes modules on communication skills, voice and accent, global culture, customer care, computer proficiency, etc. |
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| The training programme is meant to upgrade the skill set of the people in Punjab to meet the manpower requirements of the service-sector and BPO companies. |
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| A seminar was conducted at the SCD Government College by the training partner of the programme recently, which was attended by a large number of students from arts, science and commerce streams. |
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