Union education and skill development and entrepreneurship minister, Dharmendra Pradhan presided over the signing of eight MoUs between agencies of ministries of education and skill development and entrepreneurship and IBM. To equip Indian youth with skills for the future, selected courses would be made available in accordance with the MoUs. The partnership will concentrate on curriculum co-creation and access to IBM's learning platform IBM SkillsBuild for educating students in K–12, higher education, and the workforce about cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence (including generative AI), cybersecurity, cloud computing, and professional development skills.
India, according to Pradhan, is poised to realize enormous potential. It is essential to provide young people the skills they need to succeed in the modern workforce if we are to capitalize on this demographic dividend. The scaling up of digital skills training and skill building in new technologies utilizing the IBM SkillsBuild platform is a key step toward our goal of a "Skilled India" He claimed that the alliances formed today will go a long way toward enabling our students to fully utilize technology and become the society's future entrepreneurs and wealth creators. for educational purposes For high school students, instructors, and trainers in schools identified by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, IBM will make digital content from IBM SkillsBuild available (KVS). This curriculum will be provided by IBM's CSR implementation partners through online, live webinar, and in-person seminars.
Furthermore, IBM will update the AI curriculum for Classes XI and XII of the CBSE, as well as create a blockchain and cyber skilling curriculum for high school students that will be hosted on IBM SkillsBuild. In order to onboard affiliated students and faculty to IBM SkillsBuild and give them access to digital content, experiential learning, and new ideas, IBM, through its CSR implementation partners, will work closely with the department of higher education, All India Council for Technical Education, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Chandigarh, and state skilling missions. In order to enroll job seekers, including long-term unemployed and school dropouts, in IBM SkillsBuild and help them acquire the technical and professional skills necessary to reenter the workforce, IBM will also continue its central partnership with MSDE. It will work with the directorate general of training and the respective state vocational education and skilling departments.
