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PAAET Selects SunGard Higher Education To Help Strengthen Technical And Vocational Education In Kuwait
Published Nov 7, 2010
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The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) has selected SunGard Higher Education, a global provider of education software and services, to support its mandate of developing the national labor force to meet the requirements for technical skills in Kuwait. This new engagement will see all 11 colleges and training institutions under the PAAET stewardship gain access to technology that helps them create and extend a digital campus to help meet the growing needs of 40,000 learners.
PAAET is collaborating with SunGard Higher Education and a local implementation partner in Kuwait to create a digital campus environment which includes SunGard’s Banner Student, Banner Financial Aid and Luminis Platform software solutions. These solutions are tailored to help the institutions streamline their administrative processes and provide enhanced learning resources to students and faculty members. Specifically, a community portal and collaboration platform will be deployed to help PAAET students communicate with faculty members and gain access to learning resources at anytime from any place. Students will be able to search and register for classes by term or date, as well as retrieve relevant data online, while faculty members can easily manage course information, rosters, grading and advise students from a remote location.
Dr. Ahmad Alansari, dean of admission and registrationn, PAAET, said, “Vocation and technical education are critical to our mission to develop high-quality human resources for Kuwait’s public and private sectors. We have looked to SunGard Higher Education to provide the technology that will help us transform our institutions because of its global reputation and regional leadership in technology solutions for higher education.”
“PAAET has a significant role in ensuring that the next generation of Kuwaitis have the capacity in terms of technical skills to meet the increasingly diverse labour needs of the country,” said Mathew Boice, vice president, EMEA and India, SunGard Higher Education. “SunGard Higher Education is proud to support this mission and to provide a platform for long-term and sustainable change within the vocational and training sector in Kuwait.”
About PAAET
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training was established on December 28, 1982, by law number (63) with the objective of developing and upgrading manpower to meet the challenge of shortfall in technical manpower created by industrial and economic development of the country.
About SunGard Higher Education
SunGard Higher Education serves colleges, universities and foundations in 40 countries worldwide. Through its Open Digital Campus strategy, SunGard collaborates with the higher education community and provides software and services to help institutions find better ways to teach, learn, manage and connect. www.sungardhe.com
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, please visit: www.sungard.com
Trademark information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, Banner, Luminis and Open Digital Campus are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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