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Higher Education Bolsters Job Skills via Training Partnerships

Paul Ritchie is Practice Director and leads the PM College program. Mr. Ritchie has presented on initiative leadership to multiple global audiences, including the PMI Global Congress, the PMI Europe and Asia Regional Congresses, as well as SAP’s SAPPHIRE and ASUG conferences. He also has published a number of articles and is the main author for the award-winning Crossderry Blog. He is on Twitter @crossderry. 

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When it comes to business education, the idea of “the ivory tower” of academia—an environment separate from the workaday world—just doesn’t apply. In fact, there is a long tradition of universities partnering with private companies on a variety of fronts. Such partnerships can bring in expertise and innovation, as this article from MIT’s Sloan School of Business describes, or they can inject practical skill-based training into a course of study. The latter is sorely needed, and when colleges and universities face spiraling costs and budget cuts, often partnering with a private training firm is the answer. Such practical skills are sorely needed, as this study from Northwestern University shows.

Project management training is one example of the type of focused skills training that higher education organizations often choose to outsource to the private sector, and PM College has developed a number of partnerships of just this type. Many leading universities—including Xavier University, the University of Alabama, and the University of the West Indies—have relied on PM College as their content and courseware partner. PM College delivers a full, turnkey Project Management Essentials and PMP Exam Review curriculum, which prepares students to lead projects. It also prepares them for the exam portion of Project Management Professional certification, the most recognized certification of its type in the world. Other popular courses include Project Cost and Schedule, Strategies for Effective Stakeholder Engagement, and Managing Multiple Projects.

If employers are demanding project management certification from your business and engineering students, such a partnership is a rapid way to add this curriculum, which can be presented by existing faculty members. For each course, we provide everything you and your faculty needs to deliver:

  • Participant Guides
  • Visuals (PowerPoint slides)
  • Project Management Essentials textbook
  • Instructor Guides
  • Activities, Exercises, and Worksheets
  • PM Knowledge Assessments

Interesting in discussing a partnership with PM College? Just contact us at info@pmcollege.com.

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