Tuesday, February 24, 2009

JNTU-H, WIPRO TO TRAIN TEACHERS

Hyderabad
The Hindu

JNTU Hyderabad and Mission10X, a not for profit trust of Wipro Limited have come together to train senior faculty in engineering colleges so as to help students gain employability skills.

A MoU was signed between the JNTU-H and Wipro in this regard and it would be in force for a period of three years.

The focus of the MoU would be on conducting faculty enablement programmes empowering senior faculty members of engineering colleges to innovate in their classrooms using Mission10X learning approach, which would help in turn developing students with higher levels of understanding their technical subjects along with augmenting their employability skills. Developing curriculum

Prof. D.N.Reddy, JNTU-H Vice-Chancellor, said both the parties would collaborate in developing curriculum, conducting faculty enablement workshops and engagements, undertaking joint research in creation of educational assets and disseminating new learning.

Pratik Kumar, Executive Vice President – Human Resources, Wipro Limited said the partnership provides a platform to reach out to all the colleges under the JNTU umbrella thereby helping graduating engineers across Andhra Pradesh. .

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