Master’s programme in Liberal Arts
The of Technology Guwahati is launching a Master’s programme in Liberal Arts. It will be offered by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati from the academic year 2022-2023. The first batch of 30 students will be admitted from the upcoming July 2022 semester based on specific admission criteria to be announced soon.
The programme aims to offer cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary training to students and hone their ability to think critically and creatively about social, political, and aesthetic issues that concern our world today and would align with the NEP2020.
By engaging in meaningful cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary conversations, students will learn to make informed judgments and choices, while also remaining aware of their ethical implications.
The programme will help students to be creative with the skill sets they acquire and to address real-life problems. The programme will also offer opportunities for interested learners to engage with digital technology and methodology, think critically about technological paradigms, and apply digital tools in critical humanities research in praxis-based projects.
Scholarship and Talent Hunt Season II
Mindler, a career guidance platform has launched the Mindler Scholarship and Talent Hunt for Class 12th students across India and the Middle East. With over 50,000 Class 12th students expected to participate in Season II of 2022 of Mindler Scholarship initiative; this year again more than 3,000 students will receive scholarships and be able to get admission in the university of their choice. The students will be from 1,000 schools.
LPU’s Archery Student For PWC-2022
Bachelor of Arts 3rd Year student, Jyoti Baliyan at Lovely Professional University has recently been selected for Para World Championship-2022, which is scheduled to be held in Dubai from 19th to 27th February 2022.
Baliyan is now aiming to grab the top medal. With the world’s best Para archers in competition for eight different categories, the championship will reveal great action throughout the event.
Training on JAVA FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
Simplilearn, a global digital skills training provider, announced its partnership with Mphasis to upskill freshers in Full Stack Java Development.
Through this partnership with Simplilearn, Mphasis aims to enable freshers with the skills to be job and project-ready. The program is designed to train learners in Java for front-end, backend, and database layer web development. Upon completing the program, learners will be eligible to become Full Stack Java Developers.
The Simplilearn and Mphasis partnership comes at the right time when the industry is witnessing rapid growth and demand for full stack developers. Kashyap Dalal, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer, Simplilearn, says, “Globally there is a need for millions of professionals trained in digital skills like programming, Data, Cloud, Devops, etc. These skills are not readily available in the market and increasingly the only scalable model is to hire for aptitude and then create the skills to make them job ready.
New hire onboarding for digital roles is a key focus area for Simplilearn.
Su Signs MOU with Upverter Education
The Sanskriti University has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UPVERTER. This collaboration will help to establish relationships between industry & university and eliminate the existing barriers in STEM education, opening up opportunities for students to design and create their own electronic products.
“The objective of the MoU is to work to develop an interactive curriculum comprehensively through mutual cooperation. There is a need to develop and nurture new partnerships aimed at STEM education and reducing the barriers around it so that students can get better industrial opportunities through the collaborative efforts of both institutions,” says Sachin Gupta, Chancellor Sanskriti University.
PU launches a fund for women in STEM
The Plaksha University, one of India’s largest collective philanthropy efforts to build a tech university for the future, launched Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha Fund, to promote enrollment of girls and women in STEM education specifically in higher education. The University aims to award 50 per cent of total scholarships and grants to girl students, that will not only provide equal opportunity to bright minds from underprivileged backgrounds but also increase the ratio of girls in STEM education.
As per the latest All India Survey on Higher Education, released in academic year 2019-20, the percentage of women in engineering and technology in the country is less than 30 per cent. Announcing its vision on the occasion of UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Plaksha University said that they aim to increase the enrolment of women in the institution to 50 per cent by academic year 2027 through a twofold strategy. First by ensuring that no deserving women candidate is denied admission because of the lack of financial resources. Second by ensuring that the admission process is holistic.
