India's one of leading software companies, Infosys is on a mission to help bolster students’ technical education.
On Wednesday (October 27), the IT major signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education (DCTE) in Karnataka under its 'Help Educate' initiative to help students pursue higher education and shape their careers.
According to national media, this initiative will benefit at least about 5 lakh students and faculty belonging to higher education every year.
Talking about the initiative, Karnataka Higher Education minister CN Ashwath Narayan said that the MoU includes three components of providing access to Infosys Springboard.
The minister informed that Infosys Springboard is a digital platform developed at a cost of Rs 35 crore by the Bengaluru-based IT firm which enables people to acquire multiple digital skills along with life skills.
It will also support the government in setting up digital infrastructure by donating 15,000 debonded computers.
This platform also provides a faculty development program with 4,900 plus courses and 1.6 lakh learning resources, the minister said.
It is to be noted that the platform has many interesting features including virtual labs, gamification, etc and it also provides access to industry experts and enables to fill the gap between industry requirements and skill-set of students.
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