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 …
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%)] …
Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida (ranked at 56 in the ‘University’ category in India Rankings 2020) celebrated its sixth graduation ceremony virtually on July 15, owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It was hosted on the University’s social media channels – Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. University awarded degrees to 601 graduating students, including 24 PhDs, from various streams of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Humanities & …
