St Thomas Academy for Research and Training (START) is a unique institution that aims at imparting holistic and comprehensive education to the learners. While the training here enables the students to meet effectively the ever changing and challenging demands of the job market, the all round development of the individual also receives accentuated attention in the curriculum implemented here. In an age fazed by stunning scientific growth and innovation where ethical and Christian spiritual values seem to elude most of the youth, START places great emphasis on the inculcation and nurturing of moral values in the students. The ultimate goal of START is to make the learners here both individually and socially useful citizens and great leaders who ought to become driving forces of social, political and economic changes in the world.
Mar Remigiose Inchananiyil, Bishop of Thamarassery and Patron of START