[h=1]2,000 Indians vie for 400 places at skills centre opened
with Singapore’s help[/h]
NEW DELHI — In the north-eastern outskirts of New Delhi lies a skills centre that has turned out batches of technically competent graduates who are promptly employed, including several who have landed jobs outside India, a rarity at the country’s other training institutes.
The World Class Skill Centre, started in collaboration with Singapore’s ITE Education Services (ITEES) in 2013, has seen all six batches of students thus far secure jobs after graduation, said Dr D P S Verma, the centre’s principal and project director.
ITEES provided consultancy in the campus’ design, curriculum, training facilities, and also helped train its management and educator teams.
This year, 18 of 400 graduates found work in places outside India, such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Maldives, New Zealand and Singapore. Their success stories have led many prospective students to make a beeline for the centre, which offers courses in hospitality operations, retail services, software testing and finance.
Students spend half of their year-long course getting trained technically, and the rest of it on an internship. Some students secure jobs by the seventh or eighth month into their course, Dr Verma told TODAY in a recent interview.
The centre saw 2,000 applicants vying for 400 places before its current semester started in August. These included those who had completed their first degrees in local institutions.
“Singapore imparted a distinct pedagogy,” he said. “It’s a hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on system. It doesn’t matter how well they did before (in high school). Here, it’s not uncommon for those who got C in academics to defeat those who got A.”
With Singapore’s help, the World Class Skill Centre is gradually changing Indian students’ mindset that “vocational education will not earn you much money”, Dr Verma added.
“The results are amazing, and we’ve maintained a consistent benchmark (of full employment) in the last three years,” he said, adding that the centre has also seen greater interest in its graduates from local and foreign companies.
The centre now operates out of the Industrial Training Institute in Vivek Vihar, to the northeast of Delhi. To cope with the increasing demand, a 37-acre satellite campus is under construction in Jonapur, south of Delhi.
Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia hopes the ITEES’ pedagogy can be expanded to the rest of India. “There’s a big difference between other trainers and these trainers who receive training from Singapore,” he said.
“They’re building an ambience that focuses more on the students’ experience. They pay attention to the minute details.”
Earlier this month, the Centre of Excellence for Tourism Training, a collaboration between Singapore and the Rajasthan state government, was launched in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Two agreements were also signed between ITEES, the Assam government and India’s National Skills Development Corporation, which aim to boost skills training for India’s tourism and urban solutions sectors
with Singapore’s help[/h]
NEW DELHI — In the north-eastern outskirts of New Delhi lies a skills centre that has turned out batches of technically competent graduates who are promptly employed, including several who have landed jobs outside India, a rarity at the country’s other training institutes.
The World Class Skill Centre, started in collaboration with Singapore’s ITE Education Services (ITEES) in 2013, has seen all six batches of students thus far secure jobs after graduation, said Dr D P S Verma, the centre’s principal and project director.
ITEES provided consultancy in the campus’ design, curriculum, training facilities, and also helped train its management and educator teams.
This year, 18 of 400 graduates found work in places outside India, such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Maldives, New Zealand and Singapore. Their success stories have led many prospective students to make a beeline for the centre, which offers courses in hospitality operations, retail services, software testing and finance.
Students spend half of their year-long course getting trained technically, and the rest of it on an internship. Some students secure jobs by the seventh or eighth month into their course, Dr Verma told TODAY in a recent interview.
The centre saw 2,000 applicants vying for 400 places before its current semester started in August. These included those who had completed their first degrees in local institutions.
“Singapore imparted a distinct pedagogy,” he said. “It’s a hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on system. It doesn’t matter how well they did before (in high school). Here, it’s not uncommon for those who got C in academics to defeat those who got A.”
With Singapore’s help, the World Class Skill Centre is gradually changing Indian students’ mindset that “vocational education will not earn you much money”, Dr Verma added.
“The results are amazing, and we’ve maintained a consistent benchmark (of full employment) in the last three years,” he said, adding that the centre has also seen greater interest in its graduates from local and foreign companies.
The centre now operates out of the Industrial Training Institute in Vivek Vihar, to the northeast of Delhi. To cope with the increasing demand, a 37-acre satellite campus is under construction in Jonapur, south of Delhi.
Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia hopes the ITEES’ pedagogy can be expanded to the rest of India. “There’s a big difference between other trainers and these trainers who receive training from Singapore,” he said.
“They’re building an ambience that focuses more on the students’ experience. They pay attention to the minute details.”
Earlier this month, the Centre of Excellence for Tourism Training, a collaboration between Singapore and the Rajasthan state government, was launched in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Two agreements were also signed between ITEES, the Assam government and India’s National Skills Development Corporation, which aim to boost skills training for India’s tourism and urban solutions sectors
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