The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Another IT finishing school to be set up

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Another IT finishing school to be set up

Ravi Sharma

It will be Dale Carnegie Training’s first outside the U.S.

The school will initially be established in Bangalore and then shifted to Ramanagaram
Dale Carnegie Training will invest Rs. 140 crore in the project to provide soft skills

Bangalore: Dale Carnegie Training, a U.S.-based soft skills training institute founded in 1912, is to open a finishing school for information technology (IT) professionals, initially in Bangalore, and then at Ramanagaram.

The finishing school, whose first batch of students will start their training from October 21, 2007, is also Dale Carnegie Training’s first finishing school outside the U.S. Besides imparting soft skill sets, the four-month course will also include subjects in business and life skills, enhancing in the process the student’s employability factor.

Confirming this to The Hindu, IT, Biotechnology and Science and Technology Secretary M.N. Vidyashankar said the State Government was considering Dale Carnegie Training’s request for 30 acres of land near Ramanagaram town. R 20;The issue has been placed before the High-level Cabinet Committee, whose chairman is the Chief Minister.” Dale Carnegie Training is expected to invest Rs. 140 crore in the Ramanagaram project.

Only around 30 per cent of students who finish IT-related courses are ready for absorption by the industry. Thus, the finishing school is expected to meet the needs of the industry.

Bridging the gap

Adds Kailash Patnaik, Consultant, Dale Carnegie Training, “There is a gap between the IT industry’s requirements and the academic output from our universities. A finishing school will bridge this gap. The four-week course will be followed by a two-month internship after which candidates are ready to be employed.”

Dale Carnegie Training will operate out of a facility in Bangalore till the Ramanagaram one is ready. There will be 3,000 ready-to-be-employed IT professionals passing out of the first batch. The number will be gradually ramped up, Mr. Patnaik said. Dale Carnegie Training expects around 50,000 students to pass out of the school every year in around three years’ time.

Master trainers from Dale Carnegie Training, U.S., will fly down to Bangalore to train the 35-member faculty.

The first IT finishing school in India, the Raman Institute of Information Technology, has started operations in Mysore, with the first batch of students passing out in September. According to estimates, the soft skills training industry is pegged in the range of Rs. 7,000 crore to Rs. 8,000 crore.

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