by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Corporate Jobs, Employment, Markets, Online Marketing, Private Jobs, Technology
Bengaluru : Infosys is partnering with the Community College of Rhode Island to set up a digital economy aspirations lab for training students in the US for digital jobs, said the software major on Wednesday.
“Our digital innovation and design centre at Providence in Rhode Island will help bridge the gap for design and human-centric skills and provide digital technologies to our clients,” said the city-based IT firm in a statement here.
The centre offers designers and design graduates training in digital skills, exposure to systems, platforms, strategy and organisation domains to make them employable in a digital world.
The $11-billion IT behemoth has so far hired 100 techies as part of its goal to create 500 jobs in the northeastern state by 2022.
“We have hired 7,600 American workers since spring 2017 as part of our commitment to speed up digital innovation of enterprise clients in the US,” said the statement.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Markets, Online Marketing, Social Media, Technology, World
San Francisco : Facebook has launched in the US free online education programme CodeFWD to increase the numbers of underrepresented and female students interested in pursuing computer programming.
“We’re working on a number of initiatives like CodeFWD to widen the pipeline of diverse talent studying computer science so the next generation of tech innovators reflects and incorporates diverse perspectives, building a future that benefits us all,” Lauryn Ogbechie, Education Partnerships Director at Facebook, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Created in partnership with connected toys maker Sphero, CodeFWD by Facebook, has been designed for both English and Spanish speakers.
It is a three-step programme where educators and organisations introduce computer programming to 4th to 8th grade students.
With the first module “I do”, CodeFWD prepares educators to introduce the basics of computer programming to their students, even as they may be discovering the concepts themselves.
The “We do” module lets educators and students learn together. And the “You do” is designed to help students practice their new skills.
“After completing these three steps, educators who want to continue developing their students’ coding skills using a tangible, hands-on product can apply to earn a free classroom set of programmable robots from our partners at Sphero,” Ogbechie said.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business Ideas, Employment, Entrepreneurship, News, Politics, Social Entrepreneur, Startup Basics, Your Business Plan
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged the students of an engineering university to not just get a job but also become a job creator.
“I hope that you people will not only get a job but will become a job maker. Each one of you has to create at least 10 jobs,” Kejriwal said while addressing the students at the orientation programme of the Delhi Technological University (DTU) here.
He also emphasised on the potential of the youth and why they should not just support one political party but critically analyse politics in the country.
“Democracy is about people and for that democracy to run, our youth should take interest in politics,” Kejriwal said.
“Don’t join a party but observe, read and understand whose politics is right and whose is wrong. Be critical in your choices,” the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who accompanied Kejriwal at the programme, assured the students at DTU that all their education loans or any other education-related financial problems will be taken care of by the government.
“If the child is below poverty line (BPL) or even slightly above BPL, the government has arranged a scholarship of 25 to 100 per cent for that student,” he said.
Sisodia further assured that if a student requires any kind of loan for his/her studies, then the “government will arrange for that too”.
“You do not worry, the government will guarantee your education. You will get a loan of up to Rs 10 lakh, which you can pay after 15 years of job,” he said.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News
(Credit: The Hindu)
New Delhi : Common schools for everyone will in “no way result” in education of masses, as “students are divided” in schools in the name of uniformity, an academician said on Wednesday.
At a meet on ‘Exploring Current Educational Scenario – Issues and Possible Solutions’, Delhi University history professor Vikas Gupta said: “It is not about how many students are admitted from different castes and religious backgrounds in the same school, but after being admitted, the level of their participation taken and allowed in schools is largely important.”
How much of diversity is visible at this point, he asked, criticizing the governments, both at the Central and state levels, for “forcefully imposing one kind of knowledge and language to the students”.
Terming today’s diversity and uniformity in schools as “mechanical bulldozing”, Gupta said that current education system is in complete contrast with the Justice Rajinder Sachar committee report which suggested that every public institute must maintain immense diversity.
“We pretend that the lower section of society is educated… that is illusion,” he said, adding that diversity is not only about the intake in schools.
Interacting with the minority community students in the meeting, Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi Marlena said: “Instead of bringing experts from America and Europe, we used common sense to make sure government schools in Delhi run successfully.”
However, she added that this common sense was not being implemented till today.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News
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Patna : Nearly 1,000 students were expelled for cheating during the Class 12 examinations in Bihar, officials said on Saturday.
Anand Kishore, the Chairman of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), told the media here that more the students were expelled “for adopting unfair means” during the examinations that concluded on Friday.
The examinations had started on February 6.
The chairman said that 25 fake examiners were also caught and FIRs were lodged against guardians for helping their wards to cheat in the examinations.
He claimed the examinations this time were held in a fair manner this time and mass cheating in Bihar was a thing of the past. “It is not possible now.”
Nearly 112,07,986 students appeared for the Class 12 exams at 1,384 centres across the state.
Mass cheating has been reported in Bihar for years.
Last year, the Class 12 Arts topper turned out to be a 42-year-old man, who had faked his age to take the test. He was arrested on charges of fraud.
—IANS
