Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SM/SS)

Mangalore, May 22: Education is not knowledge of information, but it enables a student to do what he/she can do in future, said Dr B M Hegde, former vice chancellor, Manipal University, while delivering the keynote address at the inaugural session of the ‘Finishing School’ programme for engineering graduates at NITK in Suratkal on Monday May 21.

The eight week programme, welcomes graduates from any engineering discipline, and is structured to meet the immediate trained human resource requirements of the IT and ITeS industries. It aims at offering suitable candidates to IT industry as well as helping young graduates to find jobs through appropriate retraining. The faculty for the programme will be mainly from NITK while the rest from IT industries like Infosys, TCL and IBM.

Bhaskar Chickhnanjundappa, associate vice president and divisional manager, Infosys Technologies, Mangalore, said that though there is enormous talent among the present-day generation, they lack proper training. The training programme will enable them to seek jobs, he said.

The programme is part of a chain of finishing schools set up in various NITs across the country under the initiative of NASSCOM and Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Dr Sandeep Sancheti, director, NITK, presided over the programme.