VIJAYAWADA: Soon all the Universities in the State, will be offering Japanese language as a Diploma program with a duration ranging from 6-8 months. The State Council for Higher Education has taken this decision to increases the chances for getting jobs in the Japan companies. Currently, the program is active in Andhra University and Acharya Nagarjuna University.
In order to seize the job opportunities in Japan, the officials are also planning to make it mandatory for the engineering students in the State Universities. In all the 14 existing State universities in the State a diploma course with proper University certification in Japanese language will be initiated in the next few months. Currently, two Universities are running this program with a duration of six months.In the year 2015, with the partnership of Mitsubishi Corporation, Japanese language program was introduced in Andhra University and Acharya Nagarjuna University. Any individuals can enroll for this program which is a duration of six months.
In each batch 30-35 candidates will be enrolled.Speaking to TNIE, Andhra University Foreign Languages HoD Prof DVR Murthy said, "The program is receiving a very good response and we designed the learning space with Japanese environment and students are elated to have this program. Every year the demand has been growing for this foreign language diploma course. It is great move by the education department officials to introduce this in all other Universities."
Meanwhile, the State education department officials are planning to rope in the same Mitsubishi corporation for the setup of Japan Information Centres in the State universities to introduce Japanese language course. If not the officials would handover this project to State Skill development corporation or to bring faculty from English and Foreign language University, Hyderabad.Based on the sources, as the State government inked an MoU with Japan government for providing almost five lakh jobs for the State youth to work in Japan in the year 2015. Since then as only few candidates have secured jobs in Japanese firms, the education department wants to extend the Japanese language program to all other State Universities in the State.
Speaking on this to TNIE, S Varadarajan, Secretary of APSCHE said, "There are many jobs for the State youth in Japan companies, where the government made a MoU. As the students are not having the basic knowledge of Japanese, since they have to work in that environment, they are not able to get hold of the jobs. So for that purpose we started the Japanese course in two Universities which are pretty doing good. So we want to extend to all other Universities in the State with proper certification from the University. Also we are planning to make it mandatory for the engineering students, so that they can complete this course before they graduate and then have the job."