Online courses
Coursera has announced that IBM India will source high potential entrepreneurs to invite into its global entrepreneur programme. Under this collaboration, Coursera will also offer a Capstone project to learners who complete all of the courses in the full stack web development specialisation.
It is designed to prepare entrepreneurs to launch a company on a web-based platform and involves implementing a fully functional client-side application as well as full server-side implementation.
Students who are enrolled in the Capstone will be provided with extended no charge access to the IBM BlueMix trial platform (estimated value of $1200 per student) to develop their projects.
ireland induction
On the eve of student departures to Ireland for the new academic batch of 2016-17, Education in Ireland has begun a brand-new initiative — inducting the students into the Irish life.
This initiative was to allow parents and students ease into the new destination and surroundings they shall be witnessing when in Ireland institutes.
The event was held on July 4, 2016 in Delhi and was precided over by the Ambassador of Ireland to India, Dr Brian McElduff as well as Rory Power, senior market advisor, Enterprise Ireland, India.
The ambassodor engaged with the students and familiarised them with a plethora of opportunities for career advancement in Ireland.
Student Initiative Programme
Curofy, a community of verified doctors, in another attempt to diversify the user base is rolling out a student initiative programme. To maintain stringency on the verification process, and ensure a premium standard for the community it is, at present, being launched as an invite only programme.
For now, students can either ask for an invite from a doctor already using Curofy or stay in queue till it rolls out invites for them. The platform has attracted students from the very beginning. However, they wanted to be sure of the value add they would bring to the network.
According to Pawan Gupta, co-founder of Curofy: “This will enable students to directly interact with eminent doctors, and participate in real life case discussions.”
digital programmes for young teachers
TalentSprint has announced digital programmes to help address the chronic shortfall of school teachers in the education sector. With a mission to empower one million youth realise their career dreams, TalentSprint is provisding comprehensive, well-designed and easy-to-learn programmes on the cloud in order to help rural and semi-urban youth overcome traditional barriers such as gender, geography, and privilege. The plan is to empower one lakh new teachers as the education sector embraces teacher eligibility tests at the Centre and State.
The fully digital platform is designed to help aspirants self-learn by watching video lessons, taking multiple practice tests, getting detailed explanations and personalised mentoring, and interacting in real time with instructors and peers.
According to K Sridhar, chief digital officer, TalentSprint: “Generating a steady stream of competent teachers is a multi-dimensional problem of quality, quantity and reach. Our objective is to elevate the success rates of aspiring teachers through professional intervention. Going fully digital is a great way to synchronize our work with the call for a digital India.”
Skill development ministry signs mou
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for implementation of the Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PKVY).
The initiative is aimed at training and certification of Indian workforce keen on overseas employment in select sectors and job roles, in line with international standards, to facilitate overseas employment opportunities. The scheme will be implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) through its Training Partners in consultation with MEA and MSDE.
As part of collaboration, potential emigrant workers may avail work related skill training under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana or any other similar Government skill development programme, which would take place at transnational standards.
The signing ceremony took place in the Ministry of External Affairs in the presence of Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs and Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge).
NASSCOM partners with Autodesk
With a focus on bridging employability gaps within the industry NASSCOM has partnered with Autodesk Inc, a world leader in 3D design technology, with a new standardised courseware Product Design Engineer-Mechanical, so as to enhance skilling in this field.
This courseware will empower students in India with the required competencies at the entry level within the larger occupation of Product Engineering Design in the Engineering Research & Development (ERD) sub-sector of the industry. It will also help create a skilled talent pool, trained on global standards, with the ability to usher in a design-led future of making things.
To ensure the creation of an academic course that is both relevant and viable, NASSCOM has partnered with key industry stakeholders like Autodesk, Geometric, Imaginarium, JCB, l&T Technology Services, SQS, Tata Technologies and TCS. Their inputs have significantly enhanced the design of the curriculum and courseware, which also addresses the need for faculty support, and seeks to achieve this by acquainting trainers with the latest advancements in pedagogy.