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School students, IBM India is launching a course for you
IBM India chairman Vanitha Narayanan said the company is planning to launch a skill development programme for high school students that will prepare them to be part of industries of the future. And she hopes other companies will join the initiative so that more schools can be covered.
The programme, which will be similar to one that IBM launched in the US seven years ago called Pathways to Technology, will focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills from the 9th standard. From the 11th standard onward, the students do internships. In the 12th standard, they graduate high school, but the programme continues until the 14th year. So it is a 12+2 programme, at the end of which the students are hired.
Narayanan, who was elevated as chairman in January, told TOI that a major reason for the programme is that college is not affordable for a lot of kids. “And even when they graduate college with an undergraduate degree, many of them do not have the necessary skills,” she said.
Narayanan said it is not just a CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiative. “This is where business and HR get engaged and declare that these are the skills that we need four years from now. I am going to commit to take people in for internships. I may not be hiring them but creating a pool where someone surely hires them,” she said.
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School students, IBM India is launching a course for you
IBM India chairman Vanitha Narayanan said the company is planning to launch a skill development programme for high school students that will prepare them to be part of industries of the future. And she hopes other companies will join the initiative so that more schools can be covered.
The programme, which will be similar to one that IBM launched in the US seven years ago called Pathways to Technology, will focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills from the 9th standard. From the 11th standard onward, the students do internships. In the 12th standard, they graduate high school, but the programme continues until the 14th year. So it is a 12+2 programme, at the end of which the students are hired.
Narayanan, who was elevated as chairman in January, told TOI that a major reason for the programme is that college is not affordable for a lot of kids. “And even when they graduate college with an undergraduate degree, many of them do not have the necessary skills,” she said.
Narayanan said it is not just a CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiative. “This is where business and HR get engaged and declare that these are the skills that we need four years from now. I am going to commit to take people in for internships. I may not be hiring them but creating a pool where someone surely hires them,” she said.
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