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Teachers to make students industry-ready
AMUTHA KANNAN
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Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, has trained teachers to conduct a series of placement readiness programmes.
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FOR STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY: College teachers attending the Finishing School Faculty Training programme in Coimbatore.
With the concept of finishing schools fast making an impact on engineering and management students, arts and science colleges too have jumped on the bandwagon for reaping its benefits. Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, will groom final-year students to make them employable and industry-ready.
It will conduct a series of finishing schools or placement readiness programmes from May 19 to 29 in its affiliated colleges. It has trained the best resource persons — teachers — to conduct the finishing school, through the ‘Finishing School Faculty Training’ programme held here from May 14 to 16.
The university sought the help of certain companies that recruited their students in campus interviews to conduct the training. The companies — CareersIndia.com, 24x7 Customer, ABNAmro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) — trained 226 teachers from 27 colleges. They were teachers from the faculties of commerce, computer science, mathematics and English.
“This is the first attempt among the arts and science universities in Tamil Nadu. The university is planning to make a Rs.10-crore investment for establishing a permanent finishing school with the collaboration of the industry,” vice-chancellor G. Thiruvasagam said.
According to M. Jayakumar, Director, Department of Extension and Career Guidance, Bharathiar University, the conversion rate of those attending campus interviews is only 15 per cent. “In order to increase this and make them industry-ready, we have designed a 200-hour programme for the students. The trained teachers will coach the students for 100 hours (10 hours a day). This will be followed by assignments that will constitute another 100 hours.”
Narayanan Srinivasan, manager, Recruitment, TCS BPO, Chennai, said the training was aimed at telling teachers where students slipped during campus interviews. “Sixty to 70 per cent do not make it due to lack of comprehension capabilities. We train teachers to convey the competencies to the students to increase their employability rate.”
Resource material for the training was jointly prepared by the companies and the university. The material included aptitude coaching in mathematical abilities, logical reasoning, mental application, basic English communication and domain knowledge application in programming languages such as c, c++ and Java. CareersIndia, an assessment company, would test the students’ industry-readiness at the end of the finishing school.
A pilot project of the university, it is expected to be held on a regular basis.
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