1.
Mahindra
Pride Schools to skill 1 mn under-resourced youth by 2025
Through MPS, the Mahindra
Group has skilled 500,000 youth and created 100,000 jobs in the last 15 years. Mahindra
Group’s Mahindra Pride Schools & Classrooms, SMART Academy, SMART Plus and
Surya Mitra are some of its skilling initiatives through which it has skilled
about five lakh youth over a period of 15 years. It has now further committed
to further skill 500,000 youth in the next five years. At an event today, Anand
Mahindra, chairman, Mahindra Group, launched the coffee table book, The Job
Factory, which compiles riveting stories of 75 young and successful alumni of
Mahindra Pride School. In an attempt to spread awareness about skilling for
employability, the Company has also launched a digital film
#SkillHaiTohFutureHai on social media. The book is visualised and authored by
Manoj Kumar, CEO, Naandi Foundation, which is the Group’s implementation
partner in its CSR initiatives.
2.
Rolls-Royce allows free
access to its digital academy
The Company
has digitally published its skill-training programme and made available its
training courses to anyone interested to learn. In an
endeavour to help businesses across the globe digitally recover from COVID-19,
Rolls-Royce, the market leader in high- performance power systems, has allowed
free access to its digital academy. It is publishing its digital skills
training programme that can benefit all those who wish to learn new
skills for future jobs. The first suite of courses includes introduction to
data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, coding and digital
culture. With these training courses, the Company has managed to train 20,000
of its own employees in the last two
years. There is no age for learning, and Rolls-Royce seems to believe in this
concept. These training courses will be helpful to anybody affected by this
disruptive period of isolation and will encourage them to remain occupied and
learn new skills to become future ready.
3.
MHRD
gearing to translate SWAYAM courses and enrich SWAYAM PRABHA videos
UGC and AICTE will follow up with universities and institutions to accept SWAYAM credits. The Ministry of Human Resource Development is gearing up to get all the 1900+ SWAYAM courses and 60000 SWAYAM PRABHA videos translated into 10 regional languages, to increase their reach. The SWAYAM programme was initiated and designed by the Government of India to ensure access, equity and quality in terms of learning content. The initiative ensures access to quality learning resources to all, free of cost. It ensures that everyone benefits from the digital revolution. More than 26 lakh students are benefitting from 574 courses under SWAYAM ever since their launch. The most widely consumed content, and the content meant for the first year of engineering courses will be translated first. National Coordinators (NCs) will be taking on this translation work.
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