now prospective students can earn an international degree without leaving the country with an endeavour to prepare students for the trends of tomorrow by incorporating the latest technology frame work in the curriculum aptech has recently formed an academic alliance with the australiabased southern cross universitywith the partnership students can pursue the scu degree in bachelors of applied computing which is a threeyear programme at the aptech centre as per pramod khera managing director aptech training limited scus it degree has been rated the equal best in australiakhera said this global alliance with scu is already operational in around 20 countries such as nigeria egypt iran malaysia fiji sri lanka china etc and we are training over 1000 students currently worldwide now we aim to train 500 students in select metros in india in the first phase he remarkedthe accp world programme curriculum earns the student 16 credits the remaining eight credits can be acquired on completion of eight scu modules which are to be studied concurrently with the accp world program curriculumon completion of a total of twenty four credits the student is eligible to a fullfledged bachelor of applied computing degree from southern cross university australiaaccording to v balasubramanian who has recently been appointed as the executive director on the board of aptech the significance of the alliance is that the students will have an added advantage of completing the course in three years as compared to other four year degree programs when asked about the assessment of course curriculum meena kumari chief technology officer aptech said the curriculum and study materials for scu modules are provided by the southern cross university and are in tune with the industry needsshe continued we have pioneered the blended learning methodology which is based on a strong foundation of indepth research course design and instructional design this learning model incorporates a combination of instructorled computer based cbt and webbased instruction and learning a hybrid form of learningtalking about the admission criteria a student must be above 17 years of age have completed 12 years of formal education and gain an ielts score of 60 overall with no band less than 55