As a part of the AIBX 2022 Business Mission, the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) launched future skills initiatives which includes the Australia-India Cybersecurity Hackathon Challenge in an event at Bengaluru on Sep 30. To support tech collaboration, Austrade has partnered with NASSCOM and 2 universities for the Australia-India Cybersecurity Hackathon Challenge. This program will bring together industry and academia to showcase …

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LawSikho, a legal education startup, to impart skill training to aspiring learners (from legal and non-legal backgrounds) and provide upskilling in legal programs. NSDC and LawSikho will also provide joint certification for various courses. They will facilitate low-interest skill loans to the learners through NSDC’s network and strategic …

EdTech company Great Learning, part of the BYJU’S group, has released a report titled, ‘Upskilling Financial Impact Report’ a couple of days before the World Youth Skills Day (July 15).   The report reveals interesting trends and insights on the ROI of upskilling for professionals at every stage of their career and emphasizes the long-term financial impact of upskilling. The study compares …

About 5000 underserved youth from regions across Karnataka, Telangana and Delhi-NCR are now skilled in Data Science and Cloud computing, with over 2000 of them placed in jobs through a program by  IBM (NYSE: IBM) in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation aimed at making India’s youth future ready. As part of IBM’s SkillsBuild career readiness program, IBM and NASSCOM Foundation worked with 23 colleges to …

The Indian Institute of Management Nagpur (IIMN) has collaborated with Gurugram-based edtech, Jaro Education, to jointly introduce 4 techno-functional blended postgraduate (PG) certificate programmes. The new PG programmes aim to equip working professionals with future-ready skills, empowering them with the knowledge focussed on both technical and functional expertise, which are required in today’s digitally driven business environment. The techno-functional PG …

YuWaah (Generation Unlimited/GenU), a UNICEF-initiated multi-stakeholder global platform, that aims to prepare young people to transition from education and learning to productive work and active citizenship has entered into a collaboration with Capgemini and United Nations Global Compact Network India (UNGCNI) to offer a range of opportunities like local demand-based skilling with job matching through quality internships and apprenticeships and …