Mumbai University, Dell, AIF, NSDC Collaborate to Impart Career Skills to about 1 Lakh Students

The University of Mumbai, American India Foundation (AIF), Dell Technologies and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) have joined forces for 'Project Future Ready'. The project aims to provide career guidance to college students along with enhancing employability skills. According to an official statement, the project with NSDC as the skilling partner and AIF as an implementation partner will impact over 1,00,000 students in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai, of which 60 percent will be female students.

Project Goals

As per the statement released officially, the project aims to impart skills development courses for these students by means of career mentoring, leveraging online skilling platforms and providing market aligned skills training that will help in finding employability along with inculcating entrepreneurial mind-set. The project is in line with the goal of Dell Technologies that through each year until 2030, 50 percent of people empowered by its education and social initiatives will be girls/ women/under-represented groups.

Path to Career Skills

The partnership will lay focus on building capacity and certifying 200 college faculties as multi-skilled career mentors by the Mumbai University’s Garware Institute of Career Education and Development (GICED). The trained faculties will in turn engage with 500 aspiring youth by means of conducting workshops providing career guidance in colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai. Students will also receive training from NSDC through its eskillindia.org platform wherein they will be imparted employability skills by means of customised courses preparing them for interviews along with communication and soft skills. Students, on completion of the programme, will receive a certification from NSDC and the University of Mumbai.

Facilities for the Project

As per the official statement, the Central Government of India will provide the students with access to high-end multimedia studios and computer laboratories for practical training. Additionally, Dell Technologies will also support the candidates with desktops, tablets, high-speed internet allowance and other necessary equipment enabling them to access the training more efficiently via Dell's skills TV platform.