Finishing school (India)

Finishing School is a supplementary training school popular in India that attempts to make-up for deficiencies of low-tier colleges by providing specialized vocational training in technical fields such as computer programming and information technology.

The recent boom in the Indian Economy has further enhanced the need for such finishing schools. The popular ones in the IT domain are the Mysore based RiiiT (www.riiit.com) and Bangalore based Purple Leap (www.PurpleLeap.com). These IT finishing schools cover technical skills as well as communication and problem solving skills. The biggest advantage of these finishing schools is that these schools cut down the "deployable time" for a company.

Other finishing schools attempt to make up for deficiencies in the Indian secondary education system with regards to math and science education and bring the student up to the level necessary for attending university and gaining admission. For instance, it is not uncommon for Indian students to spend an entire 1 to 2 years studying in a tutorial cram school after secondary education to gain entrance into a top Medical or Engineering school.

Western Countries are often flooded by extremely over-prepared and well networked Indian students, to the point of putting their own students at a disadvantage to their own rule and merit based college entrance and scholarship award systems where cram schools are virtually unknown, particular in Engineering and Medicine, areas which the Indian cram school focus on.

Quotes

* "(you don't need) an IQ of 200+ ...Not all the ...student who make it...get in by virtue of their ‘brilliance’ or ‘genius’; it is by sheer dint of hard work.... work needs guidance and coaching...properly trained and well prepared through such coaching centers..." -- Gupta Tutorials Webpage, retrieved 2007.

Criticism

* Many of the Schools don't want their students to join these coaching centers...Many of the students and their parents have been harressed in the past.... few of them have already started legal actions against the coaching centers.

* The joining fee of these coaching institutes is huge.....and goes up to US $6000 for a two year course and comapre it with the salaries in India which are around $300 - $400 per month...

* A big IIT Coaching institute based in delhi with its branches all over India is fighting a legal case against a Leading English news paper who published an article with some serious alligations on the institute.

ee also

* Cram Schools

References

* Simon Hayes, "Indian finishing school for grads", The Australian, June 14, 2005.
* Anil Penna, "New drive to give Indian computer nerds social skills", AFP, June 10, 2007
* "IT finishing schools coming up in Mysore", The Hindu, April 2007.

External links

* [http://www.infycareer.com/finisihingschool.html Infycareer Finishing school, Chennai]
* [http://www.PurpleLeap.com PurpleLeap Finishing School]
* [http://www.ealpl.com Edge Academy]
* [http://www.guptatutorials.com Gupta Tutorials]
* [http://www.brilliant-tutorials.com Brilliant Tutorials]
* [http://www.egurucool.com/ Egurucool]
* [http://www.corporatetrainingsolutions.org/F26562/finishing_school.html Bodhih Academy of Excellence]