TCS iON partners with ASAP to empower youth in Kerala

TCS iON partners with ASAP to empower youth in Kerala Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 11 (PTI): TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has announced a partnership with the Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP), an initiative of the Kerala government. The aim of the program of the higher education department is to empower the youth of the state with new-age, future-ready proficiencies to meet industry needs.

With ASAP, the government supports graduate students with relevant training to boost the youths' employability quotient. The partnership would offer an entire range of learning solutions via its digital learning platforms to the students of 66 engineering and 45 polytechnic colleges across 14 districts, a press release said.

TCS iON's digital learning platforms leverage a unique phygital approach to help students hone their skills. The approach focusses on hands-on capabilities in collaboration with the industry, thus making learning real and relevant, the release said.

TCS iON has curated several learning products referred to as lifelong learning to provide the needed counseling, learning content, certification, and linkage to relevant job opportunities incorporates, it said. The training is aligned with the academic curriculum, and the content is developed in collaboration with industry and academic experts.

The program enables the development of relevant skills and re-imagines classroom pedagogy through advanced cloud platforms, best-in-class multi-modal content, lectures by industry specialists, expert communities, preparatory analytics, assessments, and industry projects, the release said. "At TCS iON, we are constantly innovating new methods to reimagine the education ecosystem. Our unique methods help us scale learning initiatives without compromising on the outcome," the release quoted Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head, TCSiON, as saying.

Kerala is taking progressive strides towards digital education, and partnership with the education department boosts its endeavor of imparting futuristic skill-training to students, ensuring their integration with the future, a global workforce, he said. Commenting on the partnership, chief executive officer of ASAP Dr. Veena N Madhavan said the ASAP's objective is to impart quality skill education to the students alongside their regular curriculum.

The technology-led disruption is transforming industry needs and expectations from young professionals, she said. TCS iON focusses on enabling institutions, government departments, and organizations from multiple industry sectors to be efficient in their recruitment and admissions process, learning and skilling and overall business operations with the use of 'phygital' platforms.