Aptech Global Learning Solutions will open its first animation training Academy in Brazil in May 2008.

“The centre in Brazil will start functioning within three weeks. We have decided to open 35 new centres in countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, Russia and Vietnam this year. These centres will be a combination of Arena Animation Academy and Aptech Computer Education training institutes,” shares Aptech executive director R. Krishnan.

“We will also be expanding nationally. New centres will be opened this year at Cuttack, Rourkela, Bhubaneswar, Durgapur, Guwahati and Dibrugarh,” he further adds.

The course content for the two Academies is also going to change from May. With animation and computer training institutes mushrooming everywhere, Aptech is focusing on how students can get better jobs. Hence, some new modules and methodologies will be introduced.

“We have introduced a specialised demo reel-making module in the syllabus this year. Earlier, the demo reel was just a part of the curriculum. Now this demo reel will act as the portfolio of a student,” Krishnan concludes.