Avaya signed a partnership agreement with Egypt's National Telecommunications Institute to provide training programs that will enhance the skills set of young Egyptian graduates, engineers in the private sectors, and government employees. NTI - an affiliate of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) - is a training and capacity-building center, conducts R&D and consultancy in telecommunications and networks. Trainers from NTI will be trained by Avaya's experts on its systems, and will in turn impart training to fresh graduates and engineers. The center will begin accepting admissions by the end of April 2010./p