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IT Training Industry & Economy - Education IIMA, NIIT join hands for virtual classroom Our Bureau
EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME: The Chief Executive Officer, NIIT, Mr Vijay Thadani (left), with the IIM-A Director, Dr Bakul Dholakia, addressing the media in the Capital on Friday after signing a partnership agreement to launch technology-based executive education programmes. - Kamal Narang
New Delhi , Aug.18 The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) will make its executive development programmes available to students across the country through virtual classrooms. The college joined hands with NIIT Ltd on Friday for delivering its programmes using the broadband technology of the latter. "We will set up six learning centres in the first year and scale the number to 75 in next three years," said Mr Vijay Thadani, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT.
In-house design studio
Under the system, the instructor will operate from an in-house designed studio located at IIM-A and the students will undergo an interactive session, through live video and audio and other technology-enabled learning mechanisms. "This initiative is in line with our vision of taking quality management education to different parts of the country. We hope to reach a large section of professionals leveraging our content and NIIT's vast experience in technology-enabled education," said Dr Bakul Dholakia, Director, IIMA. On offer will be two executive development programmes — General Management (GM) and Strategic Business Communication (SBC). The former is a six-month course, while the latter is a four-month course. The fees for the courses are Rs 1,80,000 and Rs 50,000, respectively. The college will limit the intake to 150 students for the GM programme and to 80 students for the SBC programme. It is in process of setting up the selection criteria for the two programmes that start later this year.
On boosting number of seats
Speaking on the sidelines of the Government's announcement to increase the number of seats by 54 per cent in all institutes of higher learning to provide reservation to OBC students, Dr Dholakia said, "We have said that we can increase the number of seats by only 12 per cent (34 seats) for the 2007 session. We stand committed by that number. The rest of the increase of 42 per cent will happen only in the next three years."
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