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Finishing school to come up in Kochi too

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government is opening another Model Finishing School (after the first one in the capital city that has just completed training for its inaugural batch) in Kochi next month.

Together, the two finishing schools, being run under the joint auspices of Institute of Human Resources Development and Kerala State Information Technology Mission with the support of IT major Infosys, will have a student intake of 180 for each batch of 45 days’ duration.

Almost all the 25 students in the first batch of the school in Thiruvananthapuram have received lucrative postings in major IT companies in the country, according to the Model Finishing School Director V.A. Arunkumar. These students will have their convocation on Wednesday at a function at the seminar hall of Kerala State Science and Technology Museum here.

The Thiruvananthapuram school has invited applications from those wanting to join its second batch scheduled to commence training on August 8. The last date for submitting applications is August 2. The application form can be downloaded from the website www. modelfinishingschool.org.

Unemployed youth with B.Tech, MCA, or M.Sc. (Computer Science/IT) qualification can apply. They should have obtained 60 per cent marks. B.Tech. students from all streams awaiting final results too can apply.

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