Education and Skill Training

By Prof. Serge da Motta Veiga and Genevieve Houriet Segard, EDHEC Business School While artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining ground in most businesses, considering its impact on society and the ethics of its use is becoming paramount. AI transforms not only the companies’ products and services but also their relationships with their customers and employees. In...

Most employers keep the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability as a compliance and not a necessity. If not accompanied by accountable actions, their efforts for being more responsible may now be seen as an attempt to green wash and this could lead to a negative impact on their employer brand. The United...

Social media platforms get a bad rap for being purveyors of fake news and FOMO (that’s Fear of Missing Out, in case you were out of the loop). However, it’s the users who are spreading misinformation, not Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp. The platform is merely the messenger, which gets inadvertently shot (targeted, in this...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on the country’s economy. The most affected because of this are the women, who often have to sacrifice their needs to care for the bread winners and children. In order to empower the women and help them gain financial independence, the all-women ‘Nirbhaya Squad’ of Jaipur police has...

In the 1980s, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) of the UK developed the original ITIL framework. It involved the best practices to be implemented in governmental organizations for cost-effective and efficient IT service management. Since then, a plethora of changes have been done to the framework for making it relevant with upcoming...

The K. C. Mahindra Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies Abroad was awarded to 65 students this year. The top three scholars get scholarships worth Rs. 8 lakh each and the rest receive scholarships worth Rs. 4 lakh each. Aimed at enabling higher education for the brightest and best students in India, the total value of...

Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII) towards its CSR has teamed up with ‘Room to Read’ an NGO to help underprivileged children to improve literacy and inculcate reading habits during the lockdown. Through this partnership, the company reached out to 12 schools in Maharashtra and distributed 3089 literacy kits to children of grade...

India needs to constantly find new ways to leverage the vast talent pool through skilling initiatives. Young people between 18 and 29 years constitute 22% of India’s population (Youth in India report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, GoI). The growth of Non-tier 1 cities since 2020 to now has resulted in...

WNS Cares Foundation (WCF), the CSR arm of WNS, today announced that it has joined forces with Tech Mahindra Foundation (TMF) to raise the cybersafety quotient of over 24,000 beneficiaries of TMF’s programmes through WCF’s CyberSmart portal, India’s first holistic, free-for-all cybersafety education portal. The CyberSmart portal enables gamified learning using thematic quiz-based modules based...

Samsung, India’s most trusted brand, has given scholarships to 544 meritorious students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools who have qualified for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT), as part of its Samsung Star Scholar program, fulfilling its vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia by empowering the next generation of Young...

The widespread reach of remote work environments has become a rising trend that is redefining India’s employability landscape and the world at large. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the Indian economy hard, but India was prepared to make the most of the crisis. With the connectivity of the internet and online learning, a vast Indian...

Vodafone Idea Foundation, the CSR arm of Vi, announced the results of its Vodafone Idea Scholarship 2021 for teachers and distributed scholarships of Rs. 1 Lakhs each to 110 teachers across 22 states in India. The results for Student Scholarships 2021 will be announced shortly. The Vi CSR Scholarship initiative aims to bridge the social...