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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.

 
 
 
The majority of the teachers are professionals from industry, whose mandate is to synergise the practical methodologies of commercial work with the development of learning ability, in order to build inquiring minds that will purposefully seek positive solutions to difficult design problems.

All our students will learn to be teachers, for our teachers have learned to be students. The collaborative exercise between students and teachers is our educational process. Better than to give someone fish, is to teach that person how to catch fish. We expect our teachers to help students find possible answers, rather than only teach them the known. In the end everyone benefits. We shall seek ways to ensure that both teachers and students will continually engage in finding ways to sharpen the learning curve.

Our effort is to create an environment where all participants, regardless of educational background or physical ability, will work together to innovate and implement. The output of the institute is measured by the ways that ensure people everywhere integrate into a wholesome being. Physical impediments shall not be an insurmountable barrier to their leading lives of dignity.

 
 
 
 
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