Education and Skill Training

Ericsson today announces a major new commitment to empower 1 million children and young people by 2025 through access to digital learning, tools, content and development programs. This commitment forms part of the World Economic Forum-aligned EDISON Alliance 1 Billion Lives Challenge - a global movement of forty-five champions from the public and private sectors....

Marking the 2021 International Day for Persons with Disabilities, Cognizant Foundation, the CSR arm of IT service major Cognizant, at a virtual event announced the launch of its flagship program - Tech4All, to empower and skill persons with disabilities (PwDs) for jobs in technology and technology-enabled services. The program will be implemented across India...

Committed to Skill India Mission, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI) inaugurated its 2nd Skill Enhancement Centre in Rajasthan in collaboration with Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Kota. The new centre will empower local youth with job-oriented technical skill training as part of the company's CSR in the city. The inauguration was held...

Global lighting corporation Signify, in partnership with SRF Foundation, recently illuminated 15 rural government schools in the Mewat District of Haryana under its CSR programme ‘Jagmag Pathshala’. This CSR initiative has positively impacted more than 7000 students in the district and aims to provide an improved learning environment for young students by upgrading their school...

Adecco, a leading global workforce provider, is joining hands with Plan India, through their Saksham initiative which undertakes an intensive upskilling programme for underprivileged youth. The initiative aims at upskilling over 200 enrolled young women and men between 18-24 years of age from the disadvantaged communities of Bengaluru and help them improve their technical, vocational,...

Bharti Foundation (the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises) in partnership with Ciena inaugurated ‘Advanced Technology Lab’ at Satya Bharti Senior Secondary School, Chogawan, Punjab. The lab in the Satya Bharti Adarsh Senior Secondary school under the Public-Private Partnership model in Chogawan government school will benefit the students and further stimulate their interest in science...

Pablo Picasso once said, “All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” Most education models, however, remain oblivious to the importance of feeding a child’s creativity and imagination as they focus primarily on rote learning. Rajesh Bhatia, whose chain of virtual play schools, TreeHouse Education makes use...

COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the education in India gravely. With country-wide lockdowns in place, the schools were forced to remain closed. The learning of children got negatively affected, even as the digital classes resumed after few weeks. This has been confirmed by the recently released Annual Status of Education Report 2021. Annual Status of Education...

The ‘Learn for a cause’ initiative enabled 17 leading organizations in the country to give back to the community, while helping employees in their own company to upskill themselves. The initiative was created by People Matters in partnership with Skillsoft, Akshaya Patra and Concern India Foundation. Organisations that participated in this CSR initiative included: UST...

With an aim to ensure quality access to STEM education and create India’s next generation of talent, SKF India, has announced WeGyaan – a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) initiative for deserving students. In association with NGO partner, United Way Bengaluru, the CSR initiative WeGyaan plans to reach to at least 10,000 students annually,...

Edtech platform Toppr has partnered with the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to educate underprivileged students. The collaboration is a part of Toppr’s corporate social responsibility programme called Asha. The CSR programme aims to systematically improve the performance of high school students from underserved and low-income families through the Toppr learning app. It will provide...

WhiteHat Jr, the live one-on-one online learning platform, has launched its community initiative ‘WhiteHeart’ to give back to the society by delivering live learning sessions to children and youth from underprivileged communities. Led by WhiteHat Jr’s large community of 11,000 plus teachers, the curriculum for each of the sessions is customized based on the requirement...