SQL Star upgrades EfE

The Hyderabad-based Sql Star International Ltd, a well known IT education company for over two decades, is taking its Education for Employment (EfE) programme to the next level. The EfE programme is being taught in 12 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab and Maharashtra. EfE provides industry-oriented supplementary education to pre-graduate students in all streams of engineering.”The objective of EfE is to enable students of all engineering streams to improve their skill-sets for employment in the booming IT/ITES industry. Currently 30-40 percent of recruitment by the IT industry is from non-computer science and non-IT streams, forcing IT companies to lose four-six months in training fresh graduates to become industry ready,” says N.R. Ganti, chairman and managing director of SQL Star.Under this non-disruptive supplemental education programme, a combination of instructor-led and web-enabled courses are imparted to pre-graduation students in partnership with college managements. “The advantage of EfE courses is that they eliminate extra home to institute commuting and cost and are in harmony with the academic time tables of engineering colleges. The focus is on extensive practice-oriented learning, wherein instructor-led learning is supplemented by material available on the web. This provides an opportunity to students to devote extra hours to learning at home or in their hostels. Moreover the pace of the programme can be according to the capability of the learner,” explains Ganti.SQL Star International is a global IT solutions and services enterprise with eight knowledge centres and 13 offices in India and wholly owned subsidiaries in the US, UK, Australia and Singapore. It has established state-of-the-art development centres in Hyderabad and New Delhi, San Diego, California and Edison, New Jersey (USA).Manipal University ScholarshipsThe Manipal and Bangalore-based Manipal University ƒš‚ Indiaƒšžs largest private sector provider of professional (medical, engineering, business management etc) education with an aggregate enrollment of 12,000 students ƒš‚ has announced full tuition freeships to 100 MBBS, BDA, BE and B.Pharma students who top the universityƒšžs entrance exam in 2008. Moreover candidates who rank between 101 and 500 from families with an annual income of less than or equal to Rs.2 lakh will also be offered full tuition freeships.In addition Manipal University also offers the following scholarships to meritorious students:ƒš‚ NXP Scholarships (formerly Philips Scholarships). Valued at up to Rs.4 lakh to the top ten admitted into MS (embedded systems) and M.Tech (computer science and engineering) programmesƒš‚ GE Scholarship. Every year two students, each of M.Tech (illumination technology) and MS (medical software), are awarded this scholarship which covers tution fees, accommodation and other expenses. Selection is based on GE guidelines.ƒš‚ Harish B Fund Scholarship. Manipal University has also instituted three scholarships for MCIS (Manipal Centre for Information Sciences) students in the memory of the late director Prof. Harish B.ƒš‚ AICTE Scholarship. AICTE provides financial assistance to GATE qualified students enrolled for M.Tech/M.Pharma courses.ƒš‚ ISLE Scholarship. The Indian Society of Lighting Engineers awards two scholarships to students admitted to M.Tech (energy management and lighting) and two more to students of final year BE (E&E) branch, every year. These…