Satyam, Victoria University in pact

Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services Ltd and Victoria University (VU) of Australia signed an MoU on Friday for taking up student-industry exchange programmes and carrying out joint research projects in the area of information and communication technology.

The MoU was signed at Melbourne in the presence of Satyam co-founder and managing director B Rama Raju and Victorian minister for information and communication technology Marsha Thomson.

"The new alliance will enable up to ten VU students to undertake a software development internship with Satyam each year, with the company also set to annually recruit up to 20 software engineers from the university to undergo a three-month course in India and China," Rama Raju stated in a press release here.

The alliance, he said, would also pave the way for both the parties to carry out joint research projects as well as create an opportunity to VU students to nominate Satyam executives to deliver guest lectures to ICT students on subjects that represented core competencies within the company.

On successful completion of the training, students would be given projects either in Melbourne or at one of the Satyam's other 46 locations across the world.