Upskilling engineering students

To tackle the issue of low employability of engineering graduates and to bridge the existing skill gap of engineers, Udacity  launched its #BeInDemand campaign in collaboration with Chitkara University in Chandigarh recently. The campaign aims to upskill 1 million students to make them job ready for global and domestic markets and prepare them for the most in demand technology skills.

Knowledge events, career fairs and nanodegree scholarships for students are the most important components of this programme. Udacity will provide career guidance to students for tech jobs by industry experts from Facebook and Google. In the long run, Udacity plans to reach out to all 3,300 engineering colleges in India and partner with selected institutes to help them with resources, and make the next 100,000 engineers job-ready in terms of being well-versed with the latest technology.

Commenting on the launch,VardhanKoshal, the Country Head of Udacity India said, “Chandigarh has been the knowledge hub of the country, with some of the best scientific minds and quality engineering colleges in and around the region. We are initially launching the campaign for students of Chitkara University; eventually we would like to roll this out to all engineering colleges in the city. This campaign will inspire graduates of Chandigarh to seek new skills, and get prepared for global job opportunities.”

The company’s courses and paid certification programmess (called ‘Nanodegrees’) are built by leading technology companies across the globe.

For more information, check out https://www.udacity.com

Yale University and Tata Group collaboration

Yale University (USA) and the Tata Group (India) have launched a far-ranging research collaboration that builds on their shared strengths in discovery, technology, and innovation. The alliance will be led at Yale by Nicholas Christakis, co-director of the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS) and the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science. 

The Tata Group has committed to fund the alliance over five years. The project will foster an intellectual exchange between the university and three Tata companies: Tata Sons, Tata Consultancy Services, and Tata Chemicals. The initial aim of the alliance is to expand research and its application in fields ranging from network science to data science to healthcare. During each year of the agreement, Yale will also host visiting Tata scholars, who will actively participate in the research projects. — TNS