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Around 30 graduates from leading B-Schools in India including IIM-B, IIM-L, MDI-Gurgaon and NMIMS are undergoing virtual summer internship at HCCB

Bangalore, June 5, 2020 – Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), one of India’s leading FMCG companies, went digital to accommodate around 30 interns from the leading B-Schools of the country amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. HCCB tweaked its internship programme to fulfil its promise at a time when many organisations in the country have revoked their internship programmes due to logistical reasons.

Indrajeet Sengupta, Executive Director & Chief Human Resources Officer, HCCB says, “The pandemic seemed to have arrived to play spoilsport but we at HCCB decided to keep our promise by going fully digital! It was not only about living up to our values but also about their careers. But most importantly, we did not want to compromise with the quality of our programme that we have so diligently designed and developed. Doing the right thing matters to us.”

HCCB’s virtual summer internship programme covers on-the-job training, working on a real business problem, and an end to end solution through online classes, interactions with senior leadership teams. online mentoring, data analysis, and project reviews. The online module of the internship also meant that the company had to make arrangements for providing access to company’s data and database while also ensuring security of the systems, data and devices.

The programme has been designed and executed to ensure a seamless transition for the interns from college to the corporate world, without visiting the workplace or meeting anyone in person. The young graduates have the chance to engage with the leadership team at regular intervals including the CEO of HCCB, Christina Ruggiero. The virtual experience allows interns to seek clarifications from the leadership at any time of the day who are all ears.

With the markets being shut, production at factories being halted and only select depots and distributors being operational at the start of the internship program, HCCB customised its modules while ensuring a holistic internship programme that merits the learning experience at one of India’s top FMCG companies. For the interns, the detailed groundwork for analysing the market was done using secondary research data. Regular reviews took place by project guides for fine tuning the outcomes, reports and recommendations.

The important lesson that interns got to learn from the experience was adapting to adversity, being flexible, and trying to control only what is under one’s control. For most interns their computer screens became a “home inside their homes”, as they got an opportunity to interact with the leadership team and bond with each other online, thus instilling a sense of belonging.

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Start earning early, take charge of your life

Bengaluru, 2^nd June 2020 : TechBee, HCL’s Early Career Program, is a work-integrated higher education program which contributes to the “Skill India” mission of the government. As a part of HCL’s new people strategy for 10+2 students, the program offers IT engineering jobs by equipping the students with future-ready skills. It prepares students technically and professionally for entry-level IT jobs in HCL where candidates undergo an extensive 12-month training to become software engineers. While working at HCL, students may also enroll in Graduation Degree program offered by reputed universities like BITS Pilani and SASTRA University.

Interested students who wish to enroll for the program undergo an entrance test. The program provides a combination of classroom training and on-the-job training, making them self-reliant at the completion of the program. During the entire period of training, enrolled students are paid a stipend of Rs 10,000 per month.

HCL started this program in 2017 with an aim to hire the best talent and enable them to achieve financial independence at the start of their career. So far, over 2000 students have done TechBee program and are now working with HCL.  In these uncertain times, TechBee will enable students to earn a degree from leading universities that HCL has partnered with as part of this program

Key highlights of TechBee

• Job First – Job Assurance with HCL, a leading global technology company
• Financial Independence – Become financially independent since stipend starts from the first month
• Higher Education – Earn a degree from India’s reputed technical institutions like BITS Pilani and SASTRA University
• TechBee – HCL’s Early Career Program is clustered into the following sets:
• Foundation Training Program – Technical foundation training to create a deployment-ready talent pool
• Technology / Domain Training – Stream-specific training to ensure that all tasks pertaining to the role can be performed
• Role Specific Training – Hands-on project work to be assigned during the professional practice term
• The candidates will also learn the fundamentals of Information technology, relevant software tools, processes and life skills during these 12 months of training.
• Upon successful completion of the training, candidates get to work on prestigious projects at HCL Technologies in areas of Application and Infrastructure Support, Testing and CAD Support.
• Financial assistance is arranged in a way that there is no financial burden on parents or students. Get 100% program fee waiver (if you score 90% and above in your training) and 50% fee waiver (if you score between 85-90% in your training).
• Students from Pan India and who have completed their class XII in 2019 and 2020 are eligible to apply. 
• Students can visit: https://registrations.hcltechbee.com/HCL/ to apply for the HCL SAT entrance exam & Last date of registrations is 30^th June 2020.

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Offline-Online learning, alternate day school, social distancing guidelines, non-contact games and tie-up with local hospitals advised to schools 

Mumbai, June 1, 2020: Ahead of the Human Resource Development Ministry issuing guidelines to help schools plan their reopening,LEAD School, which is running the largest online school in the country, has submitted its recommendations to the Ministry, Central and State Boards. LEAD School also released the Post Lockdown School Handbook for the benefit of all schools across India to help them plan and prepare for reopening.

Amid the norms ofsocial distancing set by the Government of India, the Handbook guides schools in running the essential activities ranging from school transport, classroom seating, offline-online learning, academic year planning and outdoor activities. It also focuses on health and hygiene and responsibilities of school, teachers, parents and students.

Key suggestions from the Handbook include:

·         Adopting cloud based system to help schoolsintegrate online-offline learning

·         Alternate Day School or Double Shift School to maintain social distancing and reduce operational cost

·         Starting academic year by June end online or increasing academic year duration to avoid learning loss during the year.

·         Advanced planning of assessments and staggered evaluations

·         Maintaining 6 feet distance in seating through one student per desk or two per medium desk or three per long desk with one empty seat between each student. Similar vacant seating practices to be followed in school transport

·         Opting for non-contact games and activities like Yoga, Aerobics, Hopscotch, Athletics or minimal contact games like Badminton, Table Tennis among others

·         Staggered lunch breaks and supervised lunch in the classroom for younger students

·         Tie-up with local hospital or nursing home; on campus or on call availability of medical attendant

Sumeet Mehta, Cofounder & Chief Executive Officer, LEAD School said, “For schools, the post-lockdown challenges can be solved when they work along with parents, teachers, education department and local governments to create safe and healthy environment. LEAD School has prepared a comprehensive Handbook to help schools deliver excellent learning while taking care of the safety and health of their students and staff on reopening. The handbook contains a checklist that every school can use to prepare for the Post-Lockdown period.”

LEAD School created the roadmap for schools to handle any disruption in operations once the lockdown is over. Such disruptions could include heightened concerns of child and staff safety at school, sudden changes in COVID zones or new outbreak of cases, quarantining of students or teacher due to positive cases and any new government measures on social distancing that may hamper school operations.  

The Handbook has been circulated to 800+ schools in 15 states, covering over 3lakh students studying in tier 2, 3 and 4 cities and towns in India.

The detailed Handbook can be accessed at https://leadschool.in/post-covid-guide-for-schools.html

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• Aakash DLP will share study material and test series with the students of DPS Biratnagar

Bengaluru, 26^th May 2020 – Aspart of the company’s vision to help students overseas take the first step in their endeavor to become doctors and engineers, Aakash Educational Services Ltd. (AESL), India’s leader in test preparation services, has expanded its presence in South Asia (outside India) by entering into a strategic tie-up with Delhi Public School, one of the most reputed schools in Biratnagar, Nepal, to provide Distance Learning Program (DLP) to its students from Class VIII-XII.

It is AESL’s first collaboration with an educational institution in the Himalayan country, where it is already offering digital courses to students.

Under the tie-up, Aakash offers a one-year “DLP” programme for students of standard VIII, IX, X, & XII, and a two-year “DLP” programme for students of standard XI of Delhi Public School, Biratnagar, Nepal.  AESL will share the required books and study materials to help students prepare for competitive exams. This will help improve the skill sets of the students who are preparing for JEE Main, JEE Advanced and NEET examinations.

Besides providing quality study material aligned with NCERT, AESL will conduct online test series and webinars on select topics. An online doubt resolution facility whereby every student is allowed to ask 5 questions per day, will also be offered to all students enrolling for the program. In a highly competitive surrounding, this curriculum will help students familiarize themselves with the online test environment in a disciplined manner. Students can hone their time-management proficiency, evaluate their exam-testing strategy and analyse the time productively spent on each question.

Commenting on the tie-up, Mr Chandra Shekhar Mishra, Head, Distance Learning Programme, Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), said: “The association with Delhi Public School, Biratnagar, Nepal is our first with an educational institution in South Asia outside India. Keeping in mind the competitive environment and the evolving education landscape, we look forward to providing the students of DPS Biratnagar with the best platforms to improve their performance. The tie-up reinforces our commitment to creating an engaging learning environment for students overseas apart from in India and help them perform better in the competitive exams.”

Added Mr Parshu Ram Ghimire, Principal, Delhi Public School, Biratnagar, Nepal, “Delhi Public School Biratnagar feels overwhelmed and supremely excited to implement the teaching learning practices designed by AESL to enhance student’s confidence for competitive exams like NEET, JEE (Main and Advanced), BITSAT and other State Level Entrance Exams for admission in undergraduate courses but also prepare them for School Boards and Junior Competitive Examinations such as NTSE, KVPY and Olympiads. I believe this tie up between AESL and DPS Biratnagar will prove to be result oriented for students and attainment of supreme satisfaction for parents and teachers witnessing the success of our Kids.”

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• Daily enrollment of students sees three times increase in April 2020
  as compared to the previous year
• There is also a three-fold increase in daily enrolments in April 2020 as compared to the pre-lockdown period in March 2020.

Bengaluru, 18^th May 2020: The Covid-19 lockdown has catalyzed the growth of the EdTech sector in India. Aakash Digital — the online learning platform of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), the national leader in the test preparation sector — has seen a four times increase in its daily active users in April 2020 as compared to the previous year. A case in point is Aakash Live Class users which has gone up three times from 6,800 in Apr 2019 to approx 18,000 in Apr 2020.

In fact, there has been a stupendous increase in enrolments when compared to the pre-lockdown period as well with Daily Enrollments going up by three times in April 2020 as compared to the pre-lockdown period in March 2020. Growth in terms of number of students has also seen a phenomenal jump with the Daily Active Users on Aakash iTutor App going up five times from 7000 in Mar 2020 to 34,500 in April 2020. Aakash Live Class users have gone up three times from 6,300 in Mar’20 to approx 18,000 in April 2020.

Mr Aakash Chaudhry, Director and CEO of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), said: “For the AESL family ‘Student First’ has always been our key driver. Ii is heartening to see the stupendous response our EduTech platform is getting. We will continue to offer support to students who are studying from home during the Lockdown period as well as afterwards. This way we can together tide over the disruption in education caused by the Covid-19 virus.”

Aakash Digital offers products like Aakash Live, Aakash iTutor and Aakash Practest. Aakash Live offers the best faculty from Aakash via live online classes, along with instant doubt resolution. This is ideal for students who do not have a reliable coaching solution near their home. Aakash iTutor enables students to learn at their own pace by watching recorded video lectures from experienced Aakash faculty. It enables students to strengthen concepts at their own pace. Aakash PracTest allows students to test themselves against students outside their coaching centre.

Aakash Digital enables students preparing for JEE, NEET and grades 8-12 school, board and competitive exams get quality coaching at the convenience of their home. The edu-tech platform brings the academic legacy and discipline of Aakash Institute to your home through live online classes, recorded video lectures and online practice tests. It empowers students who want quality education but do not have access to the same due to geography or economic reasons.

Features offered by Aakash Digital

• High-quality and well-researched study material
• Lectures by qualified Aakash faculty
• Regular assessment through online practice tests
• Quick doubt resolution during and after the class

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