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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (911)	2/27/2000 9:20:00 PM
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Computer giants, varsities to train graduates in IT Feb 28, 2000 Hyderabad: Computer giants, premier research institutes and universities in the State have come together to train graduates in international IT service and make them competent to operate in the global IT market. The A P Consortium on Technology in Education, with the AP State Council of Higher Education as a nodal agency, would offer courses through distance education in virtual class room model. A pilot project in this regard would be implemented in the twin cities from next academic year. Apart from the 12 universities in the State, research institutions like Centre for Cellular Micro Biology, National Institute of Rural Development, National Geographical Research Institute, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Indian Business School, Wipro Computers, NIIT and Satyam would be the members of the consortium. "Apart from imparting computer skills, a person would be trained in social skills also," APSCHE chairman C Subba Rao told Deccan Chronicle. The consortium has been contemplating covering 100 different subjects in the three-year course, including software engineering, human-computer interaction, network technologies, team work, communications, presentation, time and stress management and e-commerce. "Contrary to the general belief that only engineering graduates excel in Information Technology industry, we want to provide special attention on graduates of social sciences, who could also become IT professionals" he said. Students would be admitted into the post-graduate course after an entrance test which would be of the Graduate Record Examination and Test of English as Foreign Language standards and unlike the conventional educational programmes, the proposed programme would admit students every month. Lectures would be delivered using distance learning techniques in electronic class rooms with professors acting as one-on-one mentors. In this self-paced learning programme, students would move from one course to another only after showing the required performance in the previous course. The Andhra Pradesh Consortium on Technology in Education, which would be introduced in a phased manner, has been trying to bring connectivity among all the members of the consortium in the first phase for which the services of Andhra Pradesh State Wide Area Network would be utilised. The Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education, which has been planning to introduce the programme in the twin cities on an experimental basis, will soon send several teams to inspect the infrastructural facilities in the proposed colleges. -Deccan Chronicle