Chennai: The e-learning portal that the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) launched recently will be both asynchronous and synchronous, informed Preeti Malhotra, President of the institute.
She expects that the new the facility, which would be accessible on home desktops and from Internet cafes, on a 24x7 basis, will be beneficial for students from rural and semi-urban areas looking for company secretarial education.

"Their learning, self-evaluation, querying and interactive education needs will all be satisfied through this modern distance learning process," says Malhotra, during the course of an e-mail interaction with Business Line.

"After the virtual class room model is launched, e-learning will provide opportunity to students to interact with the faculty and students online and live."

The ICSI is designing training programmes and modules in various aspects of capital market functioning to make the company secretary proficient in both Indian and international securities and commodities market.
In collaboration with BSE Training Institute, ICSI is launching training programmes in financial analysis, securities analysis, share valuation, derivatives, stock exchange working, market analysis, investment analysis, and functioning of market intermediaries, brokers and portfolio managers. The training will help company secretaries to acquire expertise in international securities markets, listing abroad and international finance through these training programmes.

To make company secretaries specialists and experts in managing corporates and corporate assets during insolvency proceedings, the institute has entered into collaboration with INSOL, an international organisation of insolvency specialists.