COMPANIES across East Lancashire will be given the opportunity to put questions to a group of IT professionals from India during the Chevening Scholarship programme.

A group of 12 young professionals will travel to Manchester Business School, as part of a contract awarded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), to build links with technology business in Britain.

Companies will be able to assign a problem as a group project or identify a problem that one or two managers could work on on a placement basis for up to a month.

All the delegates' costs will be covered by the FCO and their own companies.

Anyone interested in having an IT expert work on their IT strategy should contact Professor Doug Wood on 0161 275 6416 or email: dwood@man.mbs.ac.uk.