http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020560290100.htm
Finishing schools eyeing Coimbatore
M. Soundariya Preetha
COIMBATORE: With a large number of employment opportunities available now
for students even as they are completing their studies, several finishing
schools are aiming at a presence here.
Scope
Explaining the need for finishing
schools, K. Thangaraj, Managing Director of Coimbatore-based AGT Group, points
out that the schools have a scope of improving the number of people who are
employable, of helping them find appropriate employment and also enabling
them go up the career path easily.
Further, the schools provide technical training, which can be outside the
regular syllabus, according to the needs of the industry. These schools help
candidates meet the needs of the industry and the candidates are trained in a
near-industry environment, he says.
Other areas
Apart from technical abilities,
personality development, communication skills and career focus are the other
areas covered in these schools. Students primarily come to an institution for
education in a chosen field.
They need to be trained to have a hassle-free ride up in their career ladder
and the knowledge should come when they start their career and finishing
schools provide these skills, he adds.
Employment
The AGT group plans to start a
finishing school that will prepare students for international employment too as
a number of Indian companies are now starting operations overseas.
We are speaking with industry people to see what their needs are and it is
not just in the information technology sector, he says.
Raman International Institute of Information Technology, a Mysore-based
finishing school, plans to foray into tier two cities such as Coimbatore. Mind
Parlour also has plans to enter Coimbatore. Sanjeev Nair, its chief Mentor,
says it plans to have a comprehensive facility that will train candidates for
all sectors.
Institutions
Coimbatore not only has a large
number of educational institutions but is also an emerging metro. It has a huge
potential to train candidates for various job opportunities.
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Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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