Lviv, Ukraine / Sep 15, 2006
On September 14-th, 2006 SoftServe officially launched SoftServe University. It was an extraordinary event for Ukrainian IT society. The mission of this institute is to help students and young specialists in gaining knowledge and merits as well as in getting Certificate of International IT-professional. SoftServe University provides high qualitative education, which will help attendees to improve their knowledge and to receive technical experience, which is required for work in IT industry.
SoftServe University is the first Ukrainian Institution of this type for improving developer’s knowledge and for retraining. SoftServe University includes:
- SoftServe IT Academy is an academic program for those who want to receive ultramodern and qualitative IT education. This program lasts 3 months and is developed for senior students and for retraining personnel. The main course of this training is to extend knowledge of object-oriented programming, such as C++, C#, Java and .Net. This program started last year and represented itself as successful project. More than 75% of graduates, who succeeded in OOP software development, are working at SoftServe now.
- Microsoft IT Academy is a joint program of SoftServe and Microsoft. The main goal of Microsoft IT Academy is to give possibility in receiving practical and theoretical knowledge of Microsoft products. In general, Microsoft IT Academy has two levels: Office Specialist and IT Pro Platinum. SoftServe trains IT Pro Platinum level, because this level proposes elementary-professional training of specialists in technical support of PC, computer system administration, multicomputer system administration, databases administration and etc.
- Language school is a program of learning and improving foreign languages, which is based on advanced technical English studies and includes: modern methodologies of negotiations over mail and chats, phone negotiations and CV preparations, successful interview passing; and professional negotiations with the customer and on-site visits etc.
In the near future SoftServe will open SoftServe Certification Center as a department of SoftServe University, that means that all attendees of SoftServe University will receive certificates in a key IT courses and international recognized tests in English language, such as: Microsoft MCP, Oracle OCP, OSA Sun Java SCJP, SCWCD, TOEFL etc.
Representatives of leading universities of Lviv, SoftServe top management and Director General of Microsoft Ukraine Valeriy Lanovenko were present at the opening of SoftServe University. Valeriy Lanovenko underlined: "The mission of Microsoft Corporation is to assist the society in full realization of its potential. I think, that we have a partner in Ukraine, who totally shares our mission and our values not only declaring it, but also making real efforts to help us in training students and specialists and giving them a possibility to prosper and to create Ukrainian economic basis".
Taras Kytsmey, President of SoftServe pointed out: "The sphere of software development that we are working in is developing very dynamically in Ukraine. We are experiencing 50% growth every year, so in few years production volume of IT industry will reach several billions of dollars. As a result software development will be a leading industry in Ukraine. If we want to reach such results, we should invest in education. SoftServe University is our investment".
