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Wipro offers jobs to 6 deaf students - Times Of India
It is celebration time for the staff and students of the National Institute of Speech & Hearing (Nish) here. Its decision to affiliate their graduate degree programmes with the Kerala University has paid off in spades.
Six students from the first graduating batch of the course have been offered jobs with Wipro's Global Services Management Centre, Mysore, and also an all-paid Masters degree from BITS Pilani.
"Wipro has employed over 300 people with disability but this is the first time that it has enrolled disabled students into the Wipro Academy for Software Excellence (WASEWASE offers BSc, BCA and BCM employees the opportunity to take up an MS course in Computer Science at BITS Pilani. The students from Nish will join our other employees with a similar degree for a stipend and also pursue a career, no concessions are being offered to them," said Annice Joseph, senior manager, Diversity Initiative, Wipro.
Nish, a venture of the Kerala State Social Welfare Department, has been offering higher educational courses since 1998 and is also running a successful three-year diploma in software system programme till 2008, which was approved by the government of Kerala.
"In 2008, Kerala University agreed to certify the degree programmes. Nish conducts two practical-oriented programmes in BSc Computer Science (Hearing Impaired) and a four-year BA Fine Arts (HI), in the sixth and eighth semesters respectively at Rs 5,000 per semester with concessions for SC/ST and scholarship students," said Shirly G, HoD, Degree (HI).
It was during an art exhibition by the fine art students at Wipro's office in Infopark Kochi that Samuel Mathew, executive director, Nish, took the opportunity to sensitize the corporate world regarding the job options for this graduating batch of 25 students.
Executives from Wipro caught on to the idea and began mentoring the batch. "They conducted technical and English language interviews and offered jobs to six of them. They will be joining in two weeks. Companies from Technopark have also shown interest in hiring our students," said Mathew.
It is celebration time for the staff and students of the National Institute of Speech & Hearing (Nish) here. Its decision to affiliate their graduate degree programmes with the Kerala University has paid off in spades.
Six students from the first graduating batch of the course have been offered jobs with Wipro's Global Services Management Centre, Mysore, and also an all-paid Masters degree from BITS Pilani.
"Wipro has employed over 300 people with disability but this is the first time that it has enrolled disabled students into the Wipro Academy for Software Excellence (WASEWASE offers BSc, BCA and BCM employees the opportunity to take up an MS course in Computer Science at BITS Pilani. The students from Nish will join our other employees with a similar degree for a stipend and also pursue a career, no concessions are being offered to them," said Annice Joseph, senior manager, Diversity Initiative, Wipro.
Nish, a venture of the Kerala State Social Welfare Department, has been offering higher educational courses since 1998 and is also running a successful three-year diploma in software system programme till 2008, which was approved by the government of Kerala.
"In 2008, Kerala University agreed to certify the degree programmes. Nish conducts two practical-oriented programmes in BSc Computer Science (Hearing Impaired) and a four-year BA Fine Arts (HI), in the sixth and eighth semesters respectively at Rs 5,000 per semester with concessions for SC/ST and scholarship students," said Shirly G, HoD, Degree (HI).
It was during an art exhibition by the fine art students at Wipro's office in Infopark Kochi that Samuel Mathew, executive director, Nish, took the opportunity to sensitize the corporate world regarding the job options for this graduating batch of 25 students.
Executives from Wipro caught on to the idea and began mentoring the batch. "They conducted technical and English language interviews and offered jobs to six of them. They will be joining in two weeks. Companies from Technopark have also shown interest in hiring our students," said Mathew.