When 18-year-old Krishana Chhokar completed 12th standard last year, she didn’t want to go down the “traditional theory route,” with three years of college, followed by a job. These micro-credentials, created by leading employers like Google, IBM and Meta, are preparing women without prior work experience, to develop skills online for entry-level tech jobs. Even without a STEM background, I …
Pushed to online mode of working and learning due to the pandemic, and economic instability led many Indians to upskill themselves that too over the ed-tech space. “Many sectors are aggressively adopting new-age technologies like Machine learning, creating new job opportunities—however, a massive skills gap exists across industries. ‘Machine Learning’ course by Stanford University is the most popular course on …
