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b Archana Subramanian
Leveraging What are the benefits and
challenges of digitisation of
education? A recent report Med school in the fast lane
With the pandemicled lock
down accelerating digital educa
tion, the Boston Consulting
Group (BCG), in partnership
DIGITAL SOLUTIONS from Boston Consulting
Group has some answers From being thrown in at the deep end to
being close to completing two degrees,
with Schoolnet and Google for Roshni’s experiences have all been handson
Education, conducted a study —
Equipping, Enabling, and Ad-
vancing Digital Education in In-
dia — to look at impact of digital
tools on adoption, usage, and ef
fectiveness of digital education
across 50,000 teachers in three
different states in India, strad
dling different socioeconomic,
language and digital familiarity
contexts. The study was de
signed to measure the benefits
and challenges of utilising digi Name:
tal in education atscale in an In Roshni Bahri
Course:
dian context and define a path MBBS
for fullscale rollout. University:
University of East Anglia
Results
Some key findings suggested
that digital education leads to ef Moving to the U.K. as an interna summer and working within the
ficiencies in teaching and engag tional student ready to dive into NHS.
C.V. SUBRAHMANYAM
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CAREERS)
A shared responsibility
b Scholarships at University of Sheffield
What we require is a skillsbased people strategy to bridge the
The University of Sheffield, the U.K., is offering 125
International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholar
ships in 2022. Applications will open in midNovem
ber. The deadline to apply is May 16, 2022.
Matters of the mind
educationindustry divide, says Sandip Patel, Managing Eligibility: The programme must commence at What is the difference between Psychiatry and Clinical
the University of Sheffield in autumn 2022. The ap
Director, IBM India plicant must receive an offer for a course studied in Psychology? What are the options in these fields?
full at the University of Sheffield. Master’s pro
b Madhumitha Srinivasan grammes split between the University of Sheffield b Mohammad Nizar
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management, and having all of organisational support, and culture shifts are required to Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras, the Centre among others.
rounded behavioural and good the difference in abilities. welcome third parties as part of for Networked Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Psychologists,
communication skills were al To deal with this, we need to the team, embrace partners to Science (IISc) and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) on the other
ways in demand, it would be ac create role models and involve manage specific internal func are collaborating with Bengalurubased private firm hand, are more
curate to say that, given the career coaches who can help tions. The organisation needs to Semantic Web India to continue the efforts of a crit likely to see
changes we see in the industry them navigate their career jour build agile teams with heteroge ical COVID19 Data website. The new public reposito people with
and society around us, these ney, integrate life skills coaching neous skillsets to enable expe ry is being hosted at www.incovid19.org conditions such
have become the need of the into skilling programmes, and riential peertopeer innovation as behavioural
hour. interface with their families and and create a culture where problems,
Executives are now tasked communities to lend support. learning becomes viral.
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