Gaining Competitive Advantage With Continuous Learning

Though Abhijit Sinha completed his MBA from Pune University in 2003, it was not until 2017 that his “bring up-to-date” journey began. When his IIT-Kharagpur alumnus brother made Abhijit understand the need and importance of upskilling and updating, it made him thinking. The first step was an Executive Development Programme in Human Resources Management from …

NPTEL Courses are now being offered in Vernacular Languages

Course details: For more details, please visit: https://nptel.ac.in/course.html Transcript of the Interview with the faculty members offering the courses is given below. Where did it all start? What motivated you to start a technical course in vernacular languages? Dr. Kushal: I have been teaching since 2010, first in JNU and later in IIT Delhi and IISER Bhopal. …

NPTEL Introduces Japanese course in Hindi

Ms. Vatsala Misra is in talks with the NPTEL Team on her new initiative of offering a  Japanese course in Hindi medium; Japani Bhasha – Saral swaroop (Japanese course taught in Hindi). Ms. Vatsala, who learned her Japanese as a Foreign language at Tokyo University, has been teaching the Japanese language at the Foreign Languages Program …

1,273 Students across 119 Colleges got Internships through NPTEL

Internships, once restricted to only heavily skill-intensive jobs involving high-risk situations (such as in the medical field), have now expanded their scope to all fields, including engineering, law, commerce and the humanities. Internships have become a way for undergraduates to launch themselves easily into their careers. To cater to the ever-growing needs of the job …