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New Horizons India, the
joint venture between New Horizons Worldwide and Shriram Global
Technologies, recently anno-unced the launch of its first IT training
facility in South India. The new facility was inaugurated by Dr
M S Thimmappa, vice chancellor of Bangalore University. The state
of the art training centre has been set up in Bangalore and is expected
to usher in global standards in IT training in the Silicon Valley
of India.
As part of its growth strategy, New Horizons
plans to set up 60 centres in South India over the next three years
with an investment of over Rs 50 crore. The model adopted for setting
up these centres involves building company-owned facilities in Bangalore,
Chennai and Hyderabad, and franchisee owned facilities in key cities
such as Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai, Cochin, Trivandrum and Vishakapatnam.
Announcing the launch of New Horizons’
Bangalore facility, Ajay Sharma, president and chief executive officer
of New Horizons India said, “Bangalore has established itself
as the epicenter of the Indian IT industry and has played a key
role in India’s emergence as a global IT superpower. Given
the strategic importance of this region to India’s continued
success in the IT arena, we have decided to open our second company-
owned facility in Bangalore. We are confident that our world-class
infrastructure and learning methodology will deliver value to IT
professionals in the region and help equip them with a globally
accepted IT training certification.”
It is understood that the Bangalore facility
will help the company leverage its global leadership position in
corporate training to provide customised programmes aimed at the
enterprise and corporate market. In addition, New Horizons will
also offer short-term partner certified courses for retail customers
and highly specialised programmes on Java, Linux and .Net for the
developer community.
New Horizons will also focus on the IT
professional and developer audience by providing high-end training
modules through short-term and long-term programmes in areas like
Networking, Databases, Internet Technologies, Application Development,
Multimedia and an entire range of security certification courses.
The courses will be offered at competitive
prices.
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