Sent off on Independence Day fifteenth August 2021 – and having had its first Advisory Board meeting on Republic day 26th January 2022 – ATLAS SkillTech University – Maharashtra’s first – is another expansion to the city of Mumbai, arranged in the core of the city’s business area, with a dream of worldwide greatness.
Yesterday its Advisory Board met to explain the vision, scale and aspiration to make this a chief foundation in India in the following 4 years. The Advisory Board is a’s who of corporate and schooling pioneers around the world. Deepak Parikh (HDFC) as Chairman, Dr. Indu Shahani (Founding President ATLAS), Ronnie Screwvala and Mayank Kumar (upGrad), Ram Raghavan (Colgate), Keshav Murugesh (WNS), Karan Singh (Bain), Jamil Khatri (KPMG), Anant Goenka (CEAT), Anjali Bansal (Avana), Aryaman Birla (Aditya Birla bunch), Sanjay Gurbaxani (Mondelez), Prof Russ Winter (NYU-Stern), Prof Tim Marshall (RMIT), and Carol Kim (Parsons).
Directed and floated by the National Education Policy – ATLAS has focused on making an elite result in educational plan, scholastic greatness, and experiential learning in five extremely basic and future-prepared verticals to be specific: (A) Design and Creativity (B) Digital substance and Gamification (C) Media and Communication (D) Digital Technology and Data (E) Management and Entrepreneurship. The establishing group which started in August last year has understudies from across 22 States – half of them came from Maharashtra. Applications for the year going to initiate have seen a resonating interest and should cross 10,000 from which the clumps will be shortlisted and chosen. The liberal ATLAS Scholarships Program will empower exceptionally worthy understudies from varying backgrounds to accomplish their fantasies.
To help this, ATLAS presently has more than 150 Faculty individuals that are scheduled to twofold throughout the following 18months. North of 400 Education foundations and schools allude their understudies to ATLAS and something like 250 corporates will come to Campus for situations, vocation choices and other tie-ups.
upGrad has submitted INR 150Cr (USD 20 Million) in the principal stage to work out ATLAS SkillTech University – a not-for-benefit – and will keep on supporting its development in the years to come.
“Deeply,” said Ronnie Screwvala Co-originator and Chairperson of upGrad.
“The universe of work has advanced significantly, modifying the conspicuousness and order of instruction just as abilities, across the globe; requiring a profoundly nimble and strong labor force. Our one of a kind model and industry coordinated area will empower ATLAS to turn into an all around the world positioned metropolitan development college uniting famous staff, learning organizations and capable understudies to convey versatile training and changing our understudies to mindful heads of tomorrow,” says Dr. Indu Shahani, Founding President and Chancellor, ATLAS SkillTech University.
Chart book has probably the most significant associations with the world’s driving foundations – Parsons School of Design (NY), Vancouver Film School, London School of Economics (LSE), Kings College (UK) and University of Arts London, to give some examples.
About upGrad
upGrad – began in 2015 – is a trailblazer in the web-based instruction unrest, zeroed in on fueling profession accomplishment for a worldwide labor force of over 1.3 billion. It is one of only a handful of exceptional Integrated LifeLongLearning Tech Companies on the planet – crossing the school student to the functioning proficient from the age gathering of 18-50years and across Undergrad courses, Campus and JobLinked Programs, Studying Abroad, short structure to leader projects to Degrees, Masters and Doctoral – with a student base of more than 2 million across 50 nations and north of 300 Univ accomplices and a strong undertaking business with a customer base of 1000 organizations around the world.
upGrad’s Global Learning Engine lays on four points of support – (a) its huge archive of unique and possessed substance and IP – (b) its own top tier exclusive tech stage – (c) its high touch human-drove conveyance administration upheld by mentors and coaches – and – (d) a 85% course consummation history, upheld by a further 80% vocation results ensured execution.
Currently named Asia’s higher EdTech pioneer it has workplaces in the UK, US, Middle East, India, Singapore and Vietnam and presence in a lot more nations.
