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Bangalore, Aug. 8 Wipro’s initiative to train engineering college teachers to adopt innovative teaching methods hopes to bring about a change in the employability levels of engineers by 2010. Speaking to reporters here, Mr Pratik Kumar, Executive Vice-President, Human Resources, Wipro Ltd, said, “The aim of the project is to make learners out of students. We are already seeing a difference in a few students though a distinctive change is still some distance away. We expect the initiative to have some impact by 2010.”

Mission10X programme involves a layered set of capability building workshops to help engineering faculty develop talent pool across the country. The main objective is to empower them to help students imbibe higher understanding of a subject while enabling them to develop key behavioural skills leading to higher employability.

Commenting on the lack of analytical and creative skills among job aspirants to the IT sector, Mr Pratik Kumar, said, “There has been a gap, though we cannot ascribe it to any one system, practice or individual.” He said both the industry and the academia were responsible for the employability gaps.

Mission10X was formally launched on September 05, 2007 and has so far covered 900 teachers in five States. The aim is to cover 10,000 faculty by 2010, said Mr Nagarjuna S, Head, Mission10X, Wipro Technologies.

Wipro also announced the expansion of its advisory board with the joining of three senior academicians: Prof Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor, Kuvempu University, Prof A. S. Kolaskar, former Vice-Chancellor, Pune University and Prof R. Natarajan, former Chairman of AICTE and former Director of IIT-Chennai.

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