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Wednesday, Mar 23, 2005

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Short-term courses at Madras University

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MARCH 22. This May, final year undergraduate students can choose to take up a research fellowship in a department of their choice. This would make it easy to enter the post-graduate programme, said S.P. Thyagarajan, Vice- Chancellor of the Madras University.

Launching short-term courses and programmes in air ticketing and travel management and training programme for students in call centres and textile and leather industry, Dr. Thyagarajan, said from the next academic year, students could choose to do a parallel diploma in 70 different subjects in a campus of their choice.

The Adyar-based Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) has stipulated that parents will have to accompany their wards for a day during the training session for short-term entrepreneurial courses. Parents will be educated on the facilities available for youngsters, said S. Sadulla, Deputy Director of the institute. Though students were courageous they surrendered to parents who set store by government jobs despite the poor pay, he said.

At the launch of the free coaching for civil services preliminary examinations, he said questions in prelims were based on subjects taught between standard VI and X.

T. Ramasami, Director of CLRI, who gave away certificates to graduating students, said women taking up the training programme in textile and leather technology will interact with former women students who have set up their own units.

Representatives of banks and institutions will explain the schemes for women to set up manufacturing units.

E. Ramasaamy, member secretary of Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology, said the institution had selected 10 programmes and the one in Tirunelveli was run for exclusively SC/ST students. All programmes were region-specific and included courses such as cell phone servicing, food processing, herbal medicine, vermiculture and agribusiness management.

Ms. Susila Mariappan, Director of Madras University's Students Advisory Bureau, which has come up with the training programmes, said the two-month IAS coaching classes would be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Fifty students who underwent training in air ticketing and travel management received certificates and stipend.

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