Staffing solutions company TeamLease will start coaching its first batch of students at its university in June 2013.
Last year, TeamLease had announced the intention to establish the country's first vocational training university in Gujarat.
Mr Ashok Reddy, Managing Director and Co-founder of TeamLease said that students seek the social acceptability of a ‘degree' in vocational training and the university would give individuals the corridor effect of a ‘certificate' after the training programme.
TeamLease Skills University would offer short, mid and long term courses in finance, IT, hospitality and mechatronics. Although the main campus would be located at Ahmedabad, the university would also establish four community colleges this year that would offer associate degrees programmes. “In about 3-4 years, we plan to have a total of 22 such colleges,” Mr Reddy said.
Last April, TeamLease had raised Rs 100 crore in private equity funding from ICICI Venture and Gaja Capital Partners. A part of this fund would be used for the university, the company had said.