The Mount - College of Competitions St. Thomas Mount Chennai

The Mount - College of Competitions is a secular, self-governing institution committed to the highest standards of education for men and women from all backgrounds. It is conceived as a no loss no gain system for IAS and allied services, human resource and career development programmes. It offers an affordable training programme for all these examinations. Regular and weekend coaching programmes are available for aspirants to various vocations. The college aims to pursue excellence in education. It aims at acquiring a talented faculty and providing an environment conducive to enhance the teaching-learning process. Guided by such convictions, the Institute educates its students by confronting them with facts, real-life problems and situations. We make an honest attempt at inculcating in them a problem-solving approach. It offers a framework for helping the participants develop their personal and organisational skills, knowledge, and abilities. It provides a program of training; coaching and mentoring to enable them to identify career and enhance their performance. The institute further aims at improving the employability of the participants by training them on various skills. It offers programmes to train and equip the participants with the skills necessary for a job in this complex technological age. The programme aims at enriching Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Team Skills, Motivation and Leadership Skills of the participants. They are encouraged to explore, to solve problems, to break new grounds and to cultivate leadership qualities. We at the Mount College emphasise the training of the mind rather than stuffing it with an inert body of facts. We stress expanding the imagination of the students and on widening the horizon. We, in India, are at the moment, on the threshold of a breakthrough in the socio-political and techno-industrial fields. We need semi-skilled and skilled professionals, technocrats and administrators with the ability and the vision to lead the way. The college aims at producing such practitioners and experts. It strives to recruit participants from the existing academic systems and train and retrain them. It always endeavours to teach and instil excellence in academics and a noble commitment to national ideals in them. The Mount College of Competitions covers a wide variety of subjects and areas. Exams for the recruitment to the state and central civil services, banks, railways, entrance tests for various courses and language tests are but some of the areas in which we train the participants. To enable them to achieve in these exams and tests, we conduct regular lectures and teaching sessions, debates, seminars, group discussions, mock interviews and personality and career development sessions. The Mission The mission of the Mount College of Competitions is to advance education and learning by imparting the specific skills required to ensure success in competitive examinations, work environments and life situations. Our mission is to help the participants who have not succeeded in the traditional school and college systems and prepare them for a competitive examination and a career and make them active citizens of this country. Our mission is to help the students develop higher order thinking skills, peacemaking skills and leadership qualities in an environment of shared values of non- violence, unity and equality. Our mission is to partner effectively with other centres and academic institutions and help the participants to be responsible citizens.Our Vision Without a vision, people perishOur vision is that the Mount College becomes a leading institution that encourages young people to strive to reach their full potential. Our vision is that this institution is acknowledged as a centre of excellence in teaching learning and achieving. Our vision is to create a nationally known centre of excellence for competitive examinations that produce significant gains in the participants. Our vision is to recruit even students who have not succeeded in the traditional school and college streams and help them prepare for competitive examinations and face the challenges of life better Aims and ObjectivesThe Mount College of Competitions aims atproviding outstanding opportunities for men and women at the graduate and undergraduate stages, in the development of their skills and talents and sharpening their competitive edgebeing a forum to discuss and exchange views and ideas relating to education and its impact on the students and the society as a wholepopularising career and entrepreneurial opportunities through presentations, special lectures and seminars.Providing the best possible teaching-learning experience for the participants empowering them with knowledge and problem-solving skillsrecruiting excellent teachers and experts to foster nurture and develop their careergranting a 50 per cent scholarship to the economically weak and the meritorious participantsproviding a comfortable staff-student ratio, excellent library and IT provision and spacedeveloping the inner potential of the students through debates, seminars and symposia Value Statement The Mount College of Competitions affirms the importance of teaching and training interactions to enrich and enhance the human resource potential of the individual participant which would enable him to be effective and efficient for specific jobs and situations. Philosophy of the Mount College of Competitions The Mount College of Competitions is an institutionwhere Secular Christian values are cherished and maintainedwhere each member of the college community is affirmed, valued and challengedwhere the students and staff are encouraged to strive for excellence in all areas of endeavour to the best of their abilityand where young people are prepared for active and responsible participation in the community.