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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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