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Sankar Radhakrishnan

To target new segments

Thiruvananthapuram May 27 HughesNet Global Education (HNGE), a division of Hughes Communications India Ltd, is planning to enter overseas markets and also looking at tapping new segments.

Mr Partho Banerjee, CEO, Hughes Communications India Ltd, told Business Line that the company is venturing into the West Asian market in the next few months.

"We hope to finalise all details by the third quarter of this year," he added.

HNGE, which uses a satellite-based interactive technology platform to run education and training programmes across the country, is also looking at entering new segments.

Over the past five-six years, the company has offered management-oriented executive education programmes, Mr Banerjee said.

Now, it is expanding its focus to include the student community, he explained.

Focus on students

The company is now looking at providing specialised courses relevant to industry to help students become ready for jobs in various sectors, he said.

While this step will help students find employment, it will also help industry find trained manpower, Mr Banerjee said.

In addition to the management programmes HNGE offers, the company is also looking at offering programmes in the technical domain, he added.

Today, in India, there is greater acceptability for interactive distance learning methodologies as a tool to up-skill or cross-skill professionals, Mr Banerjee pointed out.

Similarly, educational institutions too have increased the number of programmes offered through HNGE's platform, he added.

The company offers management and other professional programmes from around 10 leading educational institutions in the country.

At the heart of HNGE's system is a satellite-based technology platform that links studios in several cities with 300 learning centres or classrooms across India.

Over the past year alone, HNGE has added 200 learning centres, he said. It also has corporate classrooms in four organisations and many more companies have expressed an interest in having such corporate classrooms, he added.

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