C-IDEA (CIGI Integrated Development of Excellence in Academics)

What is C-iDea?

C-iDea (Integrated Development for Excellence in Academics) is the novel initiative by CIGI-C4C. Aim of this project is to identify talented students from the upper primary level amongst the marginalised segment and mould, develop and empower them to get admission in premier institutions like AIIMS, IIT, IIM, and Central Universities; and thus better equipping them to be partners in nation building. There are many students in the lower strata of society who are forced to give up their dreams owing to their financial condition. CIGI is here to support students with dreams and aspirations . This project is specifically designed to stimulate motivational enzymes in the students especially from the impoverished community to discover life skills that helps them blossom into secure and confident careers and in a way grooms the students to take up leadership positions.

Why C-iDea?

C-iDea project focuses on empowerment and up-gradation in the educational sector with a hope to create a new generation of enlightened graduates from prestigious institutions of different disciplines. Currently, Kerala is lagging behind other states in the percentage of students who get enrolled in premium institutions/ institutes of national importance. The project C-iDea helps students to reach their ambition through improving the quality of education by creating a platform and thus help in bringing out the natural potential in them. C-iDea gives special attention to students, thus helping to bring out the best in them.

How is it done?

The selection process of the students will be on the basis of the CIGI talent search examination followed by training and counselling. For the first year the examination was conducted mainly in four districts of Northern Kerala, such as Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Malappuram. Through this process, 2 Centres will be formed in each district with 40 students in each of them. The first batch of the C-iDea project comprises 320 students.

The selection process includes,

Preliminary Exam
Main Exam
Interview and Group Discussion

What is special about us?

Apart from the basic aim to Identify the talented students from the upper primary level from amongst the marginalised segment and mould, develop and empower them to secure admissions in the premier institutions and thus equipping them to be better partners in nation building, C-iDea is built on a vision to create an ideal talent team and equip them for world class competition and learning, make them capable to contribute their share to the prosperity of community and nation. Our major mission is to inculcate scientific, administrative, political, entrepreneurial and research temper among students through multiple and purposeful interventions.

OBJECTIVES

Immediate objectives

Improve the academic standard of the students.
Equip them to achieve their class level competitive examination (e.g. Coaching for USS).
Life skill enhancement by developing abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour.

Intermediate objectives

Improving the learning level of the students and training them to be a trainer.
Holistic development of the students.
Emphasis on enhancing multilingual communication skills of students through training.

Long term objectives

Increase percentage of community students getting admissions in the premier institutions like IIT, IIM, and Central Universities etc
To create well trained and knowledgeable leaders (IAS, IPS, IFS etc)
To increase the number of candidates for competitive examinations like UPSC.
Community upbringing through educational empowerment.

Methodology of the project

The total programme of C-iDea is divided into three phases and the duration of the project is 7 years.

Phase 1: 6th and 7th Standard.
Phase 2: 8th, 9th and 10th Standard.
Phase 3: +1 and +2

Each phase of the project include activities like

Identification of Talented Students
Interaction with Experts.
Video Lecture.
Workshops
Residential Camps.
Exposure Visits
Orientation for Parents
Motivation sessions.

REQUIREMENTS TO ACCREDIT AS A CENTRE OF C-iDea

The required conditions to accredit as a Centre for C-iDea Project:

An office space (preferably with internet connection)
Class Rooms/ Training Hall: 40 seating (with Audio-Visual Equipments and internet connection for online classes)
Co-ordinator (Full time/Part Time and remuneration is provided if required)
Centre Head and Committee to supervise the centre

Responsibilities of Centre

Coordinating screening test (Talent Search Examination)
Ensuring the participation of students in talent search examinations.
Providing facilities and manpower for conducting talent search examinations.
Valuation of answer sheets (OMR).

Responsibilities of CIGI HQ

CIGI HQ will take the following responsibilities for effective and productive management of the centres:

Timely consultation and motivation
Question papers and answer sheets for entrance examination.
Preparation of the manuals, course modules, and study materials.
Training for management, coordinators and faculties.
Providing faculties.
Sponsorship for needy students (as far as possible)

CENTRE TEAM

Centre Committee
Centre Head
Centre Coordinator
Mentors
Parents

C-iDea CENTRES

Malappuram District:

Tirur
Perinthalmanna

Kozhikkode District

Chevayur
Chaliyam
Kodiyathur

Kannur District

Payyannur
Mattannur

Wayanad District

Kalpetta

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Career Mission

What is Career Mission?

Career Mission is our core project started in 1998. The main objective of this project is to ensure that ‘NO STUDENT LEFT UNGUIDED’, which also happens to be its motto. CIGI has been educating the society on the wide range of career options available across the globe ever since our establishment. We focus on the need of Career Planning and scientific method of career guidance. Career Mission focuses on ensuring scientific methods to test the aptitude of the students and thus enabling them to take up the path which they are most suitable for.

Career guidance is done absolutely free of cost to anyone who walks into our office at Golf Link Road, Chevayur, Calicut -17, while our wide network of career guides continues to inspire students across the state. CIGI career guidance has been over the years acclaimed to be the most reliable and trusted source of career information.

This mission is taken forward through study camps, workshops, exhibitions, lecture series and seminars/webinars which are conducted throughout the year. We provide the student community with immense knowledge on various fields and options to choose from. Our expert career counsellors will help you understand your true potential and will lead you to a brighter future. Our prime mission is ‘to establish education with a purpose, employment with passion and choice, excellence in all aspects of life and to provide empowerment with character’.

What is special about us?

CIGI is the only organisation in India that provides absolutely free, unbiased and quality career guidance and counselling for everyone. Apart from that, what distinguishes CIGI from other organisations is our commitment in identifying the skills and interests of the students through competency development, orientation programs, counselling along with talent nurturing. Our exclusive Differential Aptitude Test managed by the Department of Career Guidance has been successful in discovering the inner traits of the aspirants in order to get a precise knowledge of where their skills and inclinations lay, thus making it easier to choose their career option accordingly.

How do we do that?

Listed below are some of the distinguished facilities provided by Career Mission.

Free career guidance and counselling
Career talks/classes/lectures
Career exhibitions
Career pamphlets
Career handbooks
Career Blogs/Vlogs
Career database management system
Peer career guidance groups
Career master’s forum
Career booths
C-talk video series

How to Contact Us?

+91 808666 4004, +91 8086662004

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C DAT

What is C DAT?

CIGI Differential Aptitude Test (C-DAT) is one of the most successful and sensational inventions by our Faculty of Research and Analysis. Came into being in 2008 after running standardisation tests in over 4000 students comprising both high school and higher secondary, it soon developed to become one of the best of its kind in the country.

Significance of C-DAT

Choosing a career option that suits one's skills and interests is necessary for smooth sailing in professional life. Disinterest in a career can cause many problems that can even cause psychological distress like depression so it is indeed essential to ensure the profession corresponds with passion. This shows the significance of an Aptitude Test. C-DAT is designed in a way to effectively discover the inner traits and inclinations of the student using a series of tests. It helps in clarifying students' doubts on choosing a better career path according to their strength and potential.

How do we do that?

C-DAT is perfect for students who aren’t sure or confused about their future or present career choices. It facilitates the assessment of one's abilities in different fields such as verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, mechanical reasoning and space relations. This in terms creates your path to your career by generating ideas and more suitable options to choose from after analysing the skills and interests accordingly. It helps in shaping their decision making capacities as well.

Why C-DAT?

CIGI Differential Aptitude Test is a perfectly organised systematic series of tests where items of the test tool were analysed under the Item Response Model framework to establish item properties. The standardisation process was supported by Parisons Group, Calicut. Our experience over the years has proved that CDAT is the right tool to identify the basic inherent capacity of high school and higher secondary students.

In 2020, amidst the pandemic, we were able to successfully transform the CDAT process into a completely online model. The uniqueness of C-DAT Online is that it is not an automated test, our counsellors stay with the students throughout the test. The results are then elaborated to the students and parents through personal counselling. This whole process can be completed sitting in the comfort of your homes. The candidates may also visit CIGI Campus at Kozhikode for an in-person CDAT counselling experience.

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Competency Movement

WHAT IS A CENTRE FOR COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT

Centre for Competency Development is an innovative project established as a part of celebrating CIGI's two decades of meaningful intervention in empowering the weaker segments of society. In 2016 CIGI took the initiative to set up 100 Centres for Competency Development (Mission 100C4C) at grassroots level in various parts of the state. The idea of Mission 100C4C is an end result of deliberations and constant dialogues among think tanks of CIGI on lack of competence in students and job seekers from all streams who are pursuing their higher studies or looking for a job.

The project was built on a belief that the accomplishment of this mission would provide a solution for this affecting condition and lead to a massive transformation in the current occupational and educational state of the community. By 2019, CIGI successfully completed this mission of implementing 100 centres and the project is still continuing through various activities for developing competence among the community.

A Centre for Competition instituted under C4C is basically an independent centre accredited to and monitored by CIGI and is envisioned to enhance the competency of students, nurture their talent, develop their skills, and direct them in their pursuit of better life and career.

As the pandemic swept through the globe, we decided to create a novel model of competency development through ‘C-Circle’s (Competency Circles’. The C-Cirlce’s are WhatsApp based online groups through which regular aspirants are prepared to face competitive examinations. This is done through regular updates of study materials and daily, week and monthly tests.

Started in 2020, our mission was, ‘1000 C-Circles’ , which was accomplished in a short span of time with people from across the state joining this initiative.

CENTRE FOR COMPETITIONS (C4C Centres)

WHO CAN ACCREDIT AS A CENTRE FOR COMPETITIONS?

Any local chapter of CIGI, Colleges, Schools, Orphanages, Panchayats, NGO’s or any similar institutes can apply to get accredited as a Centre for Competition under the project, Competency Movement. Interested institutes/organisations have to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CIGI to operate the centre. The project works with the objective to examine the academic personal and career excellence of young aspirants aiming at ensuring general competency development of those with qualification of 10th or above. Any institutions that meet the requirements mentioned below are eligible to accredit as a Centre for Competitions under the project:

An office space (preferably with internet connection)
Class Rooms/ Training Hall (preferably with Audio Visual Equipments
Co-ordinator (Full time/Part Time)
Committee to supervise the centre

THE ELIGIBILITY TO ENROL IN CENTRE FOR COMPETITIONS?

Students from primary class onwards for developing competency
Students appearing for scholarship examinations like LSS, USS, and NMMS etc.
Students appearing for entrance examinations
Job seekers appearing for entry to service exams of PSC, UPSC, SSC etc
Public who like to improve competency skills

HOW DO WE DO THAT?

CIGI HQ and faculty members are jointly responsible for the smooth functioning of the project.
Effective and productive management of the centres is the main concern of our HQ and we do that through various activities such as:

Timely consultation and motivation
Preparation of the manuals, course modules, and study materials.
Training for management, coordinators and faculties.
Providing faculties.
Entrance tests, model examinations, and evaluation.
Sponsorship for needy students (as far as possible)

CIGI Competency Movement is a mixture of various events as

Competency Circles
Exam oriented training
Faculty development program
Competency exam orientation
Information and guidance for Competency Examinations
Advocacy and guidance for Competency Centres
Training for Competency Entrepreneurship

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Projects

C-IDEA (CIGI Integrated Development of Excellence in Academics)