AKS: Government of India is pushing the use of computers in every sphere of governance and public dealing. There are a number of projects in pipeline being undertaken by central as well as state governments. These initiatives and projects will take demand for e-governance related training to such heights that will out-shadow most other segments. New Horizons India is working on several such projects and is very happy and proud to be serving some very important government initiatives.

CIOL: Your plans on taking your courses to government schools.

AKS: Government schools continue to offer tremendous demand for both IT education as well as IT assisted formal education. The demand in this segment far outstrips the supply and New Horizons India will soon have a significant presence in both these segments.

CIOL: What are New Horizons' future plans and initiatives in the IT education space?

AKS: New Horizons is one of the world’s leading IT training companies, with presence in nearly 60 countries including India and is worth US $363 million worldwide. We have been in the country for over five years. Till now, we have largely been focusing on corporate training which we believe is emerging as a growth area in IT training space. It happens to be our core strength too and contributes 80 percent to our global revenues. However, we are our now focusing in our retail courses since we see immense growth and prospects in this space.

New Horizons has a three pronged strategy for the Indian market on the basis of which it plans to differentiate itself from its competition:

* Quality: New Horizons has a global reputation for providing high quality course content which is delivered by a pool of well trained and certified trainers at facilities that have world class infrastructure.

* Consistency: NH guarantees its students that it will provide consistent course content, training methodology, learning experience and infrastructure in all its facilities spread across the country

* Integrated Learning: A blended approach to training that is being pioneered by New Horizons which combines classroom instruction with e-learning