Women in Technology (WiT) Forum India, a collaborative and progressive platform that focuses on increasing women participation in STEM careers, on July 17 held the first edition of its virtual conference, ‘WiT Spark’ presented by Optum, themed ‘Accelerating the new normal’. With participation from over 50 top industry leaders and women entrepreneurs, as well as HR and Diversity practitioners, the day long conclave …
JK Business School (JKBS) Gurgaon kicked off its Foundation Program 2020 via Google Meet as a part of their online orientation program for PGDM Batch 2020-22 on July 16. As a part of the welcome speech Prof (Dr), Sanjiv Marwah director, emphasized on “How technology is nothing less than a blessing in this time of COVID-19 and how apps like …
JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU) Jaipur has started online three-six months of modular courses in MBA and Engineering to learn the additional skills in their respective domains. The USP of these courses is one that can resume his/her master’s degree from the advanced level after the successful completion having early exit options with the certificate and advanced certificate after 3 months and 6 …
For close to 30 years, Indian Parliament has never spent a full day discussing country’s education system and now most discerning people are forgetting that public education is a core social contract of democracy and a basic objective of for which welfare state of India has committed constitutionally. That ideology has been completely overturned in favor of a cost efficiency …
The first on-line NISHTHA programme for 1200 Key Resources Persons of Andhra Pradesh was launched by Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriya ‘Nishank’ and Minister of State for HRD Sanjay Dhotre virtually in New Delhi on July 16. The Minister said that due to COVID-19 pandemic situation, sudden lockdown has affected the conduct of this programme in face-to-face mode. Therefore, for …
The Coursera’s latest Global Skills Index along with accompanying report released on July 16 says India lags in data science skills, especially in data management. Within the data science domain,India ranks #51 globally (lagging) and #12 among APAC countries in data science overall. Within the data management competency, India ranks #58 globally [only slightly better than Nigeria (0%) and Philippines (2%)] …
