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DWGE to start more courses for working professionals

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI JUNE 14 .It's all about training the `trained'. And a year after DirecWay Global Education in association with Hughes Escorts Communication Limited launched four management courses for working professionals with top management institutes like Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and Xavier's Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) providing the content, the DWGE is all set to launch some more courses.

One of the first initiatives towards introducing the satellite- based classroom concept that allows professionals to pursue the IIM and XLRI courses through `live' classes using video, voice and data, the DWGE effort has moved on from 14 students in March last to 1,000 in April this year and from just one class room in four cities to 28 across 16 cities and nearly 72 corporate trainings in the last 12 months.

Apart from the four management programmes offered (from XLRI, IIM - Kozhikode, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and Apollo University), DWGE is as of now all set to launch two new courses through the same platform for call centre executives and the other for those wanting to specialise in finance.

The special MBA course for call centre executives is aimed at graduates working with call centres and BPO set-up with XLRI providing yet another post graduate management course this year for the group.

The MAHE course will be customized by the institute to make call agents "employable'' in regular marketing / sales jobs despite a couple of years experience in the call centre segment. Spread over 12 months, the course has been tailor-made to suit the timing and needs of these professionals.

``Anyone wanting to take the course can simply come to office around 3-30 p.m., take the class for three hours and then go on to work. And since the training will be from their own offices, they should not have any problems. The course will not have any major deviation from our other course but will follow the general course,'' points out Amit Tripathi, the Vice President of DWGE, Hughes Exports Communication.

The XLRI-PGCBM post- graduate certificate course in business management is aimed at those between the age group of 26-37 with work experience of two years or more. The educational background being looked at is essentially B.Tech, B.E, B.Com or the industry expertise of software, IT, Telecom, Mechanical Engineering etc.

Those with a bachelor's degree in any discipline and two years of relevant work experience after graduation will be eligible for the 14-month long course, with the selection being done on the basis of the results of eXAT- 2003.

Also coming up in a while is a MAHE MBA programme in financial services which is targeted at working executives with more than a year's work experience with specialization in finance.

A course in BBA will also be launched for those who have managed to qualify only in low universities / courses around July. "We wanted to fine tune the BBA course as it will be also open to students who have just passed Class XII, and will have not just students but also parents involved in the decision making process,'' adds Amit Tripathi.

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