Updated: Aug 23, 2016, 05.54 AM IST MUMBAI: Infosys has tied up with online learning firm Udacity to offer training courses for students who want to join the company, as it becomes the latest IT firm to try and skill trainees before they join the industry.

The initiative, called the Infosys-Udacity FastTrack Programme, asks students to complete the nanodegree certification programme online before joining the Infosys training in Mysore.

They then get accelerated deployment to the technology of their choice and the Udacity programme fees are reimbursed.

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The courses in the programme include front-end web development, iOS development, data analyst, machine learning engineer and others.

These skills are in high-demand in the IT sector and in very short supply.

And paying for the course is helped offset by the fact that the company does not have to pay salaries while the potential trainees are on the course.

Udacity is not the only online education partner Infosys is tying up with.

Indian IT players are looking at accelerating the time it takes to skill freshers.

Training currently costs about 4,000 per employee, a high amount considering the fact that the companies can face between 10-15 attrition and the large number of people that need to be trained every year.

TCS puts all its training material online on a portal so that trainees can get a start even before they officially join up.

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