SQL Star International Limited, a Hyderabad-based IT services company, is planning to start knowledge centres in 10 cities in the next three months. | |
| The company has such IT training centres in eight cities including Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Bhubaneswar apart from the four metros. |
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| SQL Star is looking for partners to set up knowledge centres on a franchisee model in Chandigarh, Lucknow, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Kochi, Indore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram. |
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| Addressing the media, Narendra Shukla, chief executive officer, SQL Star, said, "There is a huge shortage of human resources in the IT industry because of absence of quality faculty. Besides, the curriculum is not updated. There is, therefore, a need to bridge the increasing divide between industry requirements and the kind of talent that is being provided." Shukla declined to divulge the investment that each centre would take. |
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| The knowledge centres train 12,000 learners every year. SQL Star charges Rs 25,000-Rs 44,000 for the courses that range from basic essentials of programming to high-end career enhancement training. |
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| The Rs 30-crore company earns 50 per cent of its revenues from the knowledge services division. |
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