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Maltacom training college to
offer on-line distance learning
by David Kelleher
Maltacom on Tuesday signed a partnership agreement for a training
project which will provide on-line distance learning through
e-learning education programmes to developing countries.
The agreement was signed by International Telecommunication
Union secretary general Yoshio Utsumi and Maltacom chairman
Maurice Zarb Adami.
The first “node” of the ITU and the Global Telecommunication
University and Training Institute will be installed at the Maltacom
Training College in Swatar, Dingli.
The training programmes will be offered using on-line distance
learning methodologies.
Maltacom chairman Maurice Zarb Adami said the agreement between
the training college and the ITU will help to consolidate and
enhance the quality and quantity
of various training program-
mes offered to various developing countries.
“By virtue of an agreement with Cable & Wireless Virtual
Acad-emy, Maltacom International Limited has been granted exclusive
worldwide rights to run both International Certificate and Diploma
in Telecommunications training programmes held in Malta and
in countries previously supported by Cable & Wireless,”
Mr Zarb Adami said.
Secretary general Yoshio Utsumi said the ITU was a specialised
agency of the United Nations and an inter-governmental organisation
responsible for the regulation, standardisation and development
of telecommunications world-wide. This included international
management of the radio freq-uency spectrum and satellite orbits.
Mr Utsumi said the concept of the Global Telecommunications
University and Training Institute emerged during the World Telecom
Development Conference held in Buenos Aires in 1994. “Its
mission was to contribute to the development of human resources
in the telecommunications sector by fostering the use of modern
technologies in today’s information-oriented culture in
the sector,” he said.
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