IIT Madras, Gradskey to partner to make 25k students industry jobs ready

TCN Service/Chennai

IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies has announced partnership with Gradskey to train 25,000 students of Engineering & Science colleges across India annually with industry-ready deployable skills.

Under the program, industry persons will directly train students on various techniques as peer-to-peer learning makes it easier for students.

This could fulfil a pressing need as many colleges in tier-2 and 3 cities do not have access to industry experts to teach them industry required technical skills. The programs are open to Students of 1st semester to 3rd semester from B.E./B.Tech, B.Sc., M.Sc, BBA, MBA, BCA, and MCA degree courses.

These Industry skilling programs are designed for a long-term trajectory of three years, which will be the duration of a students’ degree program. However, the courses are broken down into a shorter, yearly certification program to gradually skill students according to their pace of learning.

Every year, starting from first year, students gradually get industry required skills. Students start earning industry skills with a Foundation certificate and at the end of three year, eligible students would be presented with a certificate.

Highlighting the need for such industry skills training programs, Prof Mangala Sunder, Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, and Founder-Coordinator, Digital Skills Academy-IIT Madras, said, “Training opportunities provided to students could result in multiple outcomes; not only would one get to solve and get experience in industry-relevant problems but also would be able to think of designing new programs and explore new start-up opportunities which will result in jobs to many others.”

The courses would be offered in-person mode in educational institutions where more than 100 students sign up. In other institutions, it would be offered in a hybrid mode, with around 60-75 per cent online, and the remaining classes being in physical mode. The course fees will be between Rs 5,000 and Rs 7,000 per student per semester.