KPMG in India and the NHRD Bangalore Chapter   have announced that they would be coming together to offer a variety of short virtual instructor led executive training programmes specifically targeted at Human Resources (‘HR’) professionals across various levels. These programmes will allow HR professionals to hone specific skills that they need to build and learn outside of their own domain. Participants …

World champions of Imagine Cup 2021 will win USD 75,000 and a mentorship opportunity with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft on March 10 announced the India winners of the 2021 edition of Imagine Cup, its flagship innovation challenge for students and technology enthusiasts. The India winners, Team Detectd from G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur and Team Intelli-Sense from the Vellore Institute of Technology will proceed directly to …

The Indian Plumbing Skills Council (IPSC) aligned to Skill India program, under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), has prepared a database of over 900 plumbers who are ready to provide their services during the lockdown period, across the country. Keeping in mind the need for stringent health and safety norms, the IPSC has also …

Almost two years after its launch in April 2018, national School Health Programme (SHP) under Ayushman Bharat, moved a significant step forward last month with the release of curriculum for nodal teachers along with constitution of a National Resource Group (NRG) of 40 members by NCERT on adolescence education under its School Health Ambassadors Initiative. SHP was launched in a …

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has signed two major agreements, referred to as Joint Declaration of Intent (JDoI), with Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany. One DoI is with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for Cooperation in the field of skill development and vocational education and training and the second is …

Delhi-based Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD, esb 1970), a non-profit institute working in the field of training human resources and a leading provider of correspondence course – Diploma in Training and development, has joined hands with the National Open College Network (NOCN) of United Kingdom, a provider of qualifications under the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), for an …