Infosys-Harvard Partnership: Free Digital Upskilling Courses For Students!
Indian IT major Infosys, in collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), will offer free digital and life skills courses through Springboard, Harvard’s digital corporate education platform. The courses are focused on students from tier-II and tier-III cities.
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Springboard is set to host 10 courses on a variety of topics such as project management and change management, along with free articles, videos, and podcasts from Harvard Business Review (HBR), which will be offered under Harvard ManageMentor. Harvard ManageMentor is an online learning division managed by HBR. It offers a total of 42 courses alongside additional online resources aimed at enhancing the management skills of a young professional’s portfolio.
According to HBP’s Senior Vice-President and Head of International Markets, these online courses are structured in such a way so as to drive employability and resourcefulness among underserved students and youth.
The Harvard ManageMentor portfolio subscription comes at about INR 3,900 per year for each course, INR 9,700 per year for four courses, or INR 52,000 per year for the entire ManageMentor resource pool. Infosys stated that it will directly partner with schools and colleges across India to provide access to HBP and HBR courses through Springboard.
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This type of offering is part of an expanding suite of digital upskilling courses that are becoming more common in India. According to a report by Amazon Web Services (AWS), 95 percent of India's working professionals feel the need to upskill themselves by pursuing new digital skills to keep up with changing workplace demands.
In such a rapidly expanding work environment, it is necessary that students get engaged in activities that would in turn increase their resourcefulness and probability to land a good job or initiating their own startup and make it successful. Success requires hard work and efficiency, due to which, students must know how to be efficient.
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