Masterskill Training, a member of the Softline Limited Group, has formed a global alliance with McGraw-Hill publishing, Osborne Education and Global Knowledge to bring their combined weight to bear on the South African and global training markets.
According to Lindsey Fokkens, sales manager, McGraw Hill is one of the world's leading providers of content, while Osborne education is one of the World's most trusted sources for IT and Web development training tools.
Says Fokkens: "This further builds upon Masterskill Training's strategy of partnering with leading suppliers, and combining their content and learning systems with our own network of distributors and training providers. Masterskill has the local market strength to provide international partners with a strong channel presence in the South African market.
"It also has the strength, through its alliances, to provide local channel partners and corporates with the world's best training materials. This is combined with a knowledge of the local market that allows Masterskill to select and tailor its offering to South African needs."
Masterskill's philosophy is to follow an integrated approach - to include all the critical facets required to make training exercises as effective as possible for the end user, according to Kier. This means sourcing the best content, making it available in a wholistic, convenient way through both the top instructor-led training providers and online through Mskill.com, it's online learning portal. At the same time, Masterskill is forming partnerships with local tertiary institutions and aligning itself with international certification bodies to ensure candidates receive training that is recognised world wide - for the benefit of both the employee and the employer.
"This alliance once again reinforces our approach, and gives us access to materials accredited world wide by the likes of Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, Nortel, Red Hat and other industry leaders.
"Masterskill will continue to align itself with the top players in an ever-changing training landscape to make sure its customers continue to receive the leading-edge training solutions Masterskill has built its reputation upon," Fokkens concludes.

