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Aspire-Human Capital Management, stepped in its fifth year of serving the youth with innovative in-campus Educational aid

New Delhi, January 06, 2012: Aspire, India’s leading Education Services firm incepted back in July 2007, stepped in their sixth year of delivering in-campus education that enhances employability and talent development.

 Aspire, with its sprawling network of institutions across 44 campuses in 12 Indian states, has already enrolled 33,555 students. And, is an industry-promoted social enterprise of repute offering best of the Embedded Education for schools, colleges and universities enhancing employability and life skills, of the youth.

All the content of the educational aids they deliver are based and conceptualized as per international standard with participating global training partners like University of Cambridge, iCarnegie, and Harvard Business Publishing.

Making, all and every course content from 360* aspect feasible to make one develop his or her pool of talent and capability to excel in their professional sphere.

Speaking on the same, Mr. Amit Bhatia (CEO and Founder Member Aspire) says, “It’s been a long journey for us, still to travel the road that not yet travelled. We, at Aspire, trust, this New Year ahead will be a successful year for us in terms to growth for us and our aspirants whoever we’ll be moving ahead with, Aspire”.

A country like India, with 600 million youth below 25 years of age group of which 320 million are school-goers of which 25% lacks the factor that increases ones propensity towards employability.

So, considering the scenario its became very obvious that professional grooming is something that the youth of the nation needs most and, so for the same necessity of institution like Aspire, is something is of utmost priority for the society and its youth of the nation.

About Mr. Amit Bhatia, CEO & founder member Aspire Human Capital Management

 Amit Bhatia is a social entrepreneur. His vision is to address India’s challenge of talent availability and employability through Aspire, co-promoted by 28 CEOs as Investors. Since 2007, Aspire enables education that enhances employability and last year trained 33,555 students across 40 institutions in over 20 Tier 2,3 & 4 Indian cities (in rural & semi urban India) across 12 states. Aspire was recognized as an “Education Czar” in August 2008 by MINT, a WSJ publication and Finalist of John P. McNulty Award (USA) in July 2010.

Amit has 20 years of management experience and till recently served as CEO of WNS Knowledge Services which he built to a 1200-strong operation. Amit was part of the Leadership Team which listed WNS on NYSE in 2006. Prior to WNS, Amit served as the Founding Country Manager for FreeMarkets, Inc. leading its supply chain consulting business & offshore development centre in India and knowledge management globally. FreeMarkets had a record $10 billion listing on NASDAQ in 1999. Most notably, Amit conceived, founded and led the McKinsey Knowledge Center in New Delhi, the consulting firm’s global research centre, serving over 80 McKinsey offices worldwide. He has also held analytic and research positions at American Express and a domestic brokerage firm.

Amit has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and Master’s Degree in Commerce from Delhi School of Economics. He is also a qualified Cost & Works Accountant.Amit is a Trustee of The Aspen Institute India, an India Leadership Initiative Fellow of The Aspen Institute, Charter Member of TIE; on CII’s National Committees for Primary Education, Higher Education and Skills; Life Member of NHRDN and Chair/Co-Chair of Academia-Industry and Skills Development Committees of EPSI.

Aspire Human Capital Management

AspireTM is an industry-promoted social enterprise offering Embedded Education for schools, colleges and universities to Enhance Employability and Life Skills. All Aspire products have Global Certifications: ProHireTM and EnglishProTM with University of Cambridge (ESOL Examinations); ITProTM and RoboticProTM with iCarnegie (subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University); and, MBAProTM with content from Harvard Business Publishing (subsidiary of Harvard University). Our products are enabled by an Employability Education Management System (EEMSTM) which includes online learning management, elearning and assessments (e.g., NESTTM). Declared "Education Czar" by Mint (2008), adjudged finalist of the John P. McNulty prize (2010), and profiled as “Who’s Next” by Fast Company (USA, 2011), Aspire enables Educators, Employers and Employees to Grow More.