Leeds Beckett University’s School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering and major global technology company Avaya have partnered to establish a Technology Lab facility at the university’s Headingley Campus. Representatives from both the university and Avaya attended the official launch of the facility earlier this month.
The Lab will allow students to hone their skills with real life business transformation projects, working with Avaya to upgrade the technology of local businesses. The new approach to coursework will give students meaningful experience with business technology use cases, rather than theoretical, opening up job prospects when the course is complete.
This exciting new partnership will benefit both organisations through mutual learning, while also providing Avaya and its Partners a demo facility for their customers in the North of the UK.
Richard Buckley, Director UKI Sales Engineering at Avaya, said:
“This facility will offer students and research staff hands-on access to state of the art Avaya products and the opportunity to work in collaboration with our sales and engineering teams. Over time, we plan to loop in our customer base and further improve the mutual benefit that can be gained from the synergy of universities, technology companies and businesses all working together.”
Professor Colin Pattinson, Dean of the School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering at Leeds Beckett, said:
“We are delighted to be working with Avaya in this facility, which will enable our students to design, build and test software which interfaces with Avaya’s product lines. By solving real-world problems with industry-specification tools, our students will have a valuable additional skill in their portfolio, whilst Avaya will have the opportunity to showcase their products in a live development environment. We fully expect that this is the first of many stages in a long and fruitful relationship with Avaya.”
