VLB entered industry academia partnership with Keane
Raja Sekharan (second left), Senior Vice-President, Campus Relations, Keane India, hands over partnership document to S. Subramanian, Advisor, of V.L.B. Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology, at the college near the city.Keane, an Information Technology services company, entered into an industry academia partnership programme called Keane Adept, with V.L.B. Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology recently. According to a college release, the partnership entails Keane to support the college with a view to enhancing the quality of education to engineering students, thus enabling better employability opportunities of students in the IT industry. Keane has partnerships with several colleges in South India. The partnership has been segmented into three categories – platinum, gold and silver. Out of the 250 colleges that come under its purview, 29 are in the platinum category.Raja Sekharan, Senior Vice-President, Campus Relations, Keane India, said that he looked to increasing industry-academia interactions that would be of mutual benefit to all stakeholders.According to him, the company believed in recruiting promising students from campuses and grooming them towards becoming an integral part of the IT fraternity, thereby creating future leaders.
