TRAINPOST 2009: New financial transfers training course
TRAINPOST, the UPU-designed modular distance-learning system, has added international financial transfers to its list of training fields.
TRAINPOST, the UPU-designed modular distance-learning system, has added international financial transfers to its list of training fields.
The 2009 distance-learning session began this week and will run until 18 December.
According to Lahcène Chouiter, who heads the UPU’s training programme: “We are responding to training needs arising from a variety of new postal activities, one of which is electronic money transfers. This new course covers every aspect of the subject, from tracking and tracing of money orders to processing of incoming and outgoing financial transactions, not forgetting ways of reimbursing and cancelling money orders. An introduction to the International Financial System (IFS), designed by the UPU’s Postal Technology Centre, is also part of the course, along with an explanation of how to get connected.”
Over the coming year, four new subjects will be added to the wide range of course modules already available on the TRAINPOST website: fund transfers, key account management, project management, and addressing and postcodes.
The TRAINPOST platform was launched only three years ago, but more than 1,900 participants in 110 countries have already benefited from its eight-week courses. Most learners are employees and experts working for Posts in developing countries. On average the classes take up five hours a week of their time.
All 28 courses are available in English, Arabic and French on the TRAINPOST site whose access is given below. Spanish versions will gradually go online this year. The subjects on offer range from postal reform, operations and regulation to human resources and postal technologies.
