The Kolkata-based Heritage Institute of Technology is looking at overseas tie-ups, in a bid to encourage exchange programmes as well as placements for its students. | |
| Speaking to Business Standard, Probir Roy, executive director of the institute, said: "We are in the process of tying up with an American University for students and faculty exchange programmes." |
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| The institute plans to send 20 students initially to this institute, sometime in May 2008. The students will travel to the institute for an eight-week exchange programme. |
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| "These students will receive full-scholarships for the programme. The understanding with the University will be such that some of our meritorious students will be retained at the institute as faculty or otherwise," claimed Roy. |
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| According to estimates, it costs close to $80,000 annually to study Bachelor of Technology at an American institute. |
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| At the same time, faculty from the American University will be sent to Heritage to teach its students. "Another reason why we are looking at such tie-ups with overseas institutes is because we want to learn from the several on-campus activities that we could arrange for our students here. |
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| This would be outside educational activities," Roy pointed out. For instance, Heritage Institute of Technology has identified 'community services' as one area that could help its students achieve all-round development. |
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| The institute has started conducting free three-hour classes for about 300 poor children at its own campus. Classes are held in the evening where 10 of its students regularly teach poor children living in the vicinity. |
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| Heritage follows the syllabus drafted for these students from kindergarten to class II. The institute also offers meals and books to these students. Said Roy, "We plan to start higher classes too for poor children." |
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| For its batch of 2008, students have already received plum offers. Around 180 of the students have been picked up by Wipro, 108 others by TCS and some 60-odd students by Infosys. |
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