College to Career Program

COLLEGE TO CAREER PROGRAM

With a view to provide the State-of-the-art “Software Development Training” under the above program through BISAG SATCOM facility to the students of various Engineering/MCA Colleges in the State, the Government of Gujarat (Department of Education and Department of Science and Technology) took an initiative for a collaboration with the following leading agencies:

    M/s. Microsoft Corporation Ltd.

    M/s. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

To formulate a program, a Workshop was organized during July 2006, at the GCERT, Gandhinagar under the Chairmanship of Shri P. Paneervel, IAS Principal Secretary, Education Department. Shri Rajiv Gupta, IAS, Commissioner, Technical Education and Shri Raj Kumar, IAS, Secretary Department of Science and Technology also guided the deliberations. Principals and faculty members from various colleges participated. TCS and Microsoft gave detailed presentation. BISAG SATCOM facility was demonstrated to participants. Various aspects were discussed. A committee of five Principals along with GIL officials was constituted to finalize the program.

The Committee suggested that initially a Pilot project should be carried out at least in five colleges to test the system. It was also decided that feedback from the students should also be taken. Accordingly, various Institutes were approached and the receiving network systems were established to link the colleges through DTH. A pilot project was run on September 4, 2006. 10 colleges/institutes participated in the same. About 1200 students attended the lectures.

During interactions almost every college/institute appreciated this idea of providing State-of-the-art knowledge through SATCOM. Accordingly, remaining institutes were approached for establishment of receiving systems. Up to now about 27 colleges/institutes have confirmed the establishment. They have started receiving the transmission of our programs.

To start this mechanism a Registration process has been established. Colleges/Institutes are registering the students. Average registration per college/institute is about 150-200 students. Now the program envisages the following:

  • Lectures by the Experts of TCS/Microsoft on SATCOM.
  • Live Question Hour through Phone, Fax and e-mail.
  • Practical in the laboratories of the college/institutes.
  • Off-line interactions through e-mail.
  • Repeat transmission of these programs on rest of the days (to take care of the students who may miss a particular session).
  • Interaction session on designated days.
  • On-line test.
  • Certification by TCS and Microsoft.

Every college is identifying a coordinator, through whom interaction shall be made.

Overall monitoring and review of this project shall be done periodically by the Department of Education and Department of Science and Technology and over all co-ordination is being done under the guidance of the Managing Director, GIL.

It is expected that more than 3000 students shall participate in this program at a time.

Mode of executing program :  BISAG’s SATCOM channels

Question/Answer :   Phone, Fax, e-mail.

Areas Covered :   Java Technology and .Net Technology

Advantages :
  • Industry Institute interaction will help in harmonizing the requirement of industry and the study end at the Institute.
  • Employability of the participating students is likely to increase manifold.
  • Practical in the laboratories of the college/institutes.
  • Over a time the availability of human resources in this area may also help in bringing investments in IT sector.
  • It is also expected that faculty shall also be benefited.

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