EXCLUSIVE UNIVERSITY
The Central Institute of English and Foreign
Languages is an internationally acclaimed centre for higher education with
the standing of a university for the past 25 years. Spread over an area of about 35 acres
of land in lush green surroundings, the university is the only one of its kind giving
advanced research and training in English and foreign languages. CIEFL, as it is popularly known, is located in the heart of the city
well connected by road. It is about 10 km from the Hyderabad airport and 4 km from the
Secunderabad railway station. It even has institutes at Hanoi,
Vietnam and in Mongolia, which impart
training in English.
Ample facilities like a well-equipped library with over
120,000 books and 470 journals, an educational media research centre for the production of
educational videos, language laboratories, and audio and video recording units. In
addition to this, modernity in education, use of computers, Internet access, printing
presses are at one's disposal. The hospitality division takes good care of the visitors
and the parents. The institute offers hostels for men and women, an international
guesthouse, a health care centre, staff quarters, a cafeteria and a crèche.
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES
Courses offered
1) Advanced communication skills in English for senior
professionals
Eligibility: Senior professionals in government and industry with a fairly high
degree of proficiency in English.
Duration: Five weeks
2) English for professionals
Eligibility: Training proffered in the usage of
English for a specific trade or profession.
Duration: 12-13 weeks.
The other important courses offered here are a course in
teaching English for Social Welfare Residential Schools, an online teaching programme, a
post-graduate diploma in teaching English, etc. The foreign languages taught here are German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Japanese.
Chinese and Hebrew shall be added to the
list very soon.
The teaching faculty here are experts in their respective
fields of study, methodology, spoken English skills, phonetics and area studies
programmes. The same is the case with those who teach foreign languages.
The CIEFL has donated free space and free power to the Indian Association for the Visually
Handicapped, which is headed by Professor Rajashekar.
An electronic reading centre for the blind has been set up here in collaboration with Microsoft, which is an eye opener for the sightless to walk
into the realms of those with vision.
The Vice Chancellor of CIEFL, Mr. Pramod Talgeri, who is a man of letters and a down-to-earth person, believes that English is a
gateway to the world. A man with a flair for fine arts, Mr. Talgeri
has been instrumental in encouraging young budding artistes. This has been done through
the opening of a Concert Hall for conducting painting
exhibitions and enacting of plays.
Address : Tarnaka,Osmania
University Road, Secunderabad - 500 017
Phone - 701 8588 / 701 8131 |
