Seneca partners with institutions in India

Seneca College’s reputation in China is already well established. Mohammed Khan, the school’s vice-president of International and Business Development, says anyone taking a flight on one of that country’s domestic airlines, for example, will most likely be served by flight attendants who were trained the Seneca way.
Now the college has set its sights on India, which, because of its booming economy and burgeoning middle class of about 300 million people (slightly more than the entire U.S. population) finds its market for applied skills is accelerating, and Seneca wants to take advantage of the situation, Khan says.
This fall, the joint program between Seneca and the Provincial Academy of Learning Excellence in Nagpur in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management gets under way. Students in the program spend their first semester in Nagpur and can come to Toronto for their second semester.
“Seneca has started looking at India more closely for the last two years or so — since 2005 — and we have traditionally recruited students from India to come over to Canada and study here,” Khan says. “On average we get about 150 students every year. What we’ve discovered is that because of the boom and the growth in the Indian economy — the huge middle class, the growing infrastructure needs — the demands for applied skills are increasing. (Indians) themselves are feeling the pinch in terms of skills shortages in many areas.”
Some of the courses:
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http://www.senecac.on.ca/fulltime/SCM.html

28/03/07 David Chilton/Toronto Sun, Canada