1.
upGrad
partners with Loyola Inst. for HR, AI, ML courses
These courses will be
beneficial to corporate managers who are keen to specialise. upGrad,
the Indian higher edtech company is expanding its online programme portfolio.
It has partnered with Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) to
train and prepare professionals for a future-ready global workforce. With this
collaboration, upGrad will foray into two new disciplines —human resources and
healthcare, along with two other executive programmes into the areas of
artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These courses will be
beneficial to corporate managers who are looking to get specialization. The
four new 11-month postgraduate programmes will offer subject knowledge across
the areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning, business analytics,
healthcare management, and human resource management. The first batch will
commence on March 31. Phalgun Kompalli, co-founder, upGrad is confident that
this collaboration will “further strengthen our programme catalogue and enable
our learners with added capabilities in terms of faculties and facilities that
will not only empower them with deep subject knowledge across new-age
disciplines but also help them attain desired career outcomes.”
2.
MHRD implements World
Bank-funded training programme
Officials
from 24 states received training in hardware and soft skills. As part of
the World-Bank funded Technical Education Quality Implementation Programme
(TEQUP) implemented by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), a
two-day national-level workshop was organised for officials from 24 states at
Coimbatore. These states will be implementing the TEQIP at various institutions
in their respective states. Coimbatore’s State Project Implementation Unit
(SPIU) helped organise the event with the help of the Directorate of Technical
Education (DOTE), Chennai. The workshop provided training in not just hardware
but also software skills to the officials. This workshop was part of the third
phase of TEQIP. Seven engineering colleges from Tamil Nadu—Government College
of Technology (GCT), PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of
Technology, Alagappa Chettiar Government College of Engineering and Technology,
Karaikudi; Government College of Engineering, Salem; Thiagarajar College of
Engineering, Madurai; and Government College of Engineering, Bargur— have
already been selected for the programme, and an amount of Rs 7 crore has been
sanctioned for the same. Half of this fund will be used to procure and install
the latest equipment while the other half will be spent on skilling the
participants.
3.
Make
L&D invisible to create a better learning culture
An
in-built learning process where employees are learning without appearing to be
doing so, is called ‘invisible learning’. One of the primary demands of a
changing world is to continuous learning. If you have to stay relevant, you
just have to keep upskiling yourself. To do the same, an organisation’s L&D
department also needs to keep updating itself and incorporate new ways of
learning. One of the new ways of learning is invisible learning— a methodology
where learning is an in-built process in the organisation. The employees
themselves drive their own selves towards learning new things and adding new
skillsets. The principle behind invisible learning is that employees take the
initiative to learn themselves, and they learn whatever they want and whenever
they want to. To understand this more clearly, let us look at a structured
learning process. It is solely prepared by the L&D team for the employees,
who follow it to the T. This is visible learning. On the other hand, an
unstructured way of learning, where L&D is just a facilitator to employees
can be called invisible learning. The mindset of Indian employers looks quite
positive towards the concept of invisible learning and some of them have made
room for it in their respective organisations.
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