Ameerpet, India’s unofficial IT training hub

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  1. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

    The Economist
    Mar. 30, 2017

    UNIVERSITY campuses can take a while to get going in the mornings, as students recover from extra-curricular antics. Contrast that with Ameerpet, a squeezed neighbourhood of Hyderabad that has become India’s unofficial cramming-college capital. By 7.30am the place is already buzzing as 500-odd training institutes cater to over 100,000 students looking to improve their IT skills. If there are ivory towers here, they are obscured by a forest of fluorescent billboards promising skills ranging from debugging Oracle servers to expertise in Java coding to handling Microsoft’s cloud.

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  2. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

    Short article with some interesting comments about Indian schools.
     

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