Employability Skills Programme launched
Hyderabad: DXC Technology and NASSCOM Foundation jointly launched the Employability Skills Programme to train 7,500 underserved students in ‘New-Age Technologies’.
A social initiative of DXC Technology, the programme will train students from 35-plus tier II and tier III technical and non-technical colleges from the States of Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Internet of Things, UI-UX design and Cybersecurity.
NASSCOM Foundation and DXC Technology have identified TMI e2E Academy as the training partner and the NASSCOM and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s ‘Future Skills Prime’ as the training platform for this programme. The programme has already onboarded 2,500 candidates and plans to enrol approximately 5,000 more students by the end of August, a press release said.
This unique social collaboration will engage students through 80 hours of blended learning-based curriculum, divided into three levels. The first level will be common for all where the students will undertake a 14-hour ‘Digital 101’ course through Future Skills Prime.
The curriculum for the second and the third levels will be tailored to the technology specialization chosen by the students, the release added.
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