Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, May 23, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
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Industry & Economy
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Education SISI to offer biotech, IT courses Our Bureau
CHENNAI, May 22 THE Small Scale Industries Service Institute at Chennai plans to start two new courses to provide training in biotechnology and information technology-related areas, according to a press release from the Press Information Bureau. These include a postgraduate diploma in bioinformatics, and in call centre training. The courses will be offered in association with IMET (P) Ltd and IEC (P) Ltd. With bioinformatics emerging a major source of employment, the course will focus on creating a skilled human resource. The curriculum for the six-month course will include biochemistry, molecular biology, genomics and advanced genetics, information retrieval, database and data mining, design and analysis algorithms, mathematical software and scientific programming. Call centre training will be based on curriculum modelled along the lines of the US and the UK call centre career colleges. With the industry estimated to employ about five lakh people by 2008, these have emerged as major avenues for employment. The two-month course will be available to those who have studied Plus Two and above and have good communication skills in English.
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