SWAYAM Plus platform

01.03.2024

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 Why in the news?

Recently, the Union Minister of Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship launched the ‘SWAYAM Plus’ platform.

About SWAYAM Plus platform:

• It offers courses developed collaboratively with the industry.
• This platform aims to enhance the employability of both college students and lifelong learners.
• It will offer programmes in sectors like Manufacturing, Energy, Computer Science and Engineering/IT/ITES, Management Studies, Healthcare, Hospitality and Tourism besides Indian Knowledge Systems.
• It features innovative elements such as multilingual content (available in 12 major Indian languages of the country), AI-enabled guidance, credit recognition, and pathways to employment.
• These employability and professional development focused programmes have been developed with industry players including L&T, Microsoft and CISCO.
• The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) will be operating this Platform.

Objectives of SWAYAM Plus platform

○It primarily focuses on building an ecosystem for all stakeholders in professional and career development, including learners, course providers, industry, academia, and strategic partners.

○It enables a mechanism that provides credit recognition for high-quality certifications and courses offered by the best industry and academia partners.

○Reaching a large learner base by catering to learning across the country, with a focus on reaching learners from tiers 2 and 3 towns and rural areas.

○It also envisions bringing in features such as access to mentorship, scholarships and job placements as value-added services in due course of time, thus building a digital ecosystem for learners to pursue upskilling and reskilling at all levels, namely certificate, diploma or degree.

                                                 Source: Indian Express