| All over the developing world,
there are hundreds of thosuands of people
in the prime of life who are deprived of participation
in the mainstream economy due to some form
of disability. These disabilities make it
difficult to either attend schools that do
not have sufficently well-designed infrastructure,
or work in companies that lack such facilities.
Far too many people confuse the lack of
a particular ability with a general lack
of ability. In the world of education, this
extends to ensuring that youngsters do not
get access to the quality of learning that
leads to independence and a dignified existence.
Our philosophy is simple. We focus on creating
marketable skills, in the widest sense.
Skills are the best education that a student
canreceive, for no matter how technologies
change, many of the basic skills remain
the same, and someone with mastery of the
old technology can adapt.
We seek to teach people to evolve and create
solutions to the problems faced in overcoming
disabilities. While there are many interesting
approaches around the world to deal with
these issues, our experience is that not
enough of them focus first on affordability.
There is thus a clear need to be innovative
in what is taught, and how it is taught.
Our area of specialisation is industrial
design, using mechanical, electrical, electronics
and software engineering and technology.
According to the methodology we have chosen
to adopt, the best way to start the learning
process is by actually doing. Our faculty
will contain a large number of professionals
still working in industry. They will bring
value to the learning process by exposing
students to real life, real time problems
faced in the industrial world, and help
them to make practical decisions.
Students learn management by learning to
manage the institute itself. All our employees
are teachers, whose job it is to impart
the skills for which they have been hired,
to the students. We expect that this will
help keep the formal curriculum tightly
aligned to the needs of the real world.
The students will be drawn from the ranks
of both the abled and the disabled. The
only criteria for admission shall be brightness
and the willingness to learn. |