{"id":1085,"date":"2009-12-15T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2009-12-15T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:42:00","slug":"ignou-sculpts-dream-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/12\/ignou-sculpts-dream-flights.html","title":{"rendered":"IGNOU sculpts Dream Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi:<\/span> Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has added yet another top-end course to its bouquet of pioneering front line academic programmes.<br \/>Tying up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciasl.in\/html\/academy.htm\">CIAL (Cochin International Airport Ltd) Academy<\/a>, IGNOU now offers MBA and other courses in Aviation and Airport Infrastructure Technology and Management.<br \/>It was on September 25 that Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan dedicated the CIAL Academy to the nation.<br \/>The first batch of classes has also just begun. Built at a cost of around Rs.6 crore, CIAL Academy is situated close to the airport, opposite the state of the art Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility, which is fast nearing completion.<br \/>The programmes that are being offered include a two-year MBA programme, and a one-year Advanced Diploma Courses in: (a) Airport Operations Management, and, (b) Air Cargo Management; and six-month Certificate Courses in: (a) Airport Ramp Handling, (b) Rescue and Fire Fighting, and (c) Security and Intelligence.<br \/>Besides imparting knowledge in aviation management and aviation technology, CIAL Academy aims to become a centre of excellence and help promote professional and industry-oriented education by collaborating with specialized institutions.<br \/>Bubbling with enthusiasm was Jaya Paul, a graduate in Geography and a student of the first batch of the MBA programme, who aspires to be &#8220;the best manager in the aviation industry.&#8221;<br \/>The academy is unique in many ways because the teaching faculty includes professionals purely from the aviation industry.<br \/>Over 90 percent of the faculty comes from within CIAL, experts who handle various departments of the airport.<br \/>T.S. Gopi, the Academy&#8217;s Director, says, &#8220;There may be other institutes offering such courses, but they can only give theoretical exposure. The students here will, from Day One, have on-the-job classroom training and get the feel of working out of an airport.&#8221;<br \/>CIAL Academy considered various options and felt that IGNOU was the best bet for more reasons than one. The most important &#8212; as it aimed to offer top-line management programmes, it felt IGNOU had the requisite expertise.<br \/>A.C.K. Nair, Airport Director, CIAL, who has close to two decades experience of working in various airports in the country, says that trained and qualified man-power is a lacunae when it comes to airport operations and that the new academy will produce quality professionals.<br \/>In view of the academy&#8217;s potential, the Kerala Government has recently allotted an additional five acres of land on the highway even as more infrastructure plans are being worked out for the academy.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">14\/12\/09 INDIA edunews.NET<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has added yet another top-end course to its bouquet of pioneering front<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}