Category: Education
Context:
Employability is a big issue in India, along with employment. There have been reports earlier that 70% of even engineering students coming out of various colleges are unfit for employment.
Current scenario:
Educational institutions are shut and students are at home. Looking at the current dynamics, any physical education is unlikely to happen in 2020. While some amount of online education is in progress and the very academically oriented students will make use of even this avenue, there’s a large non-conformist student community that has creative thinkers, disruptors in them with time at their disposal.
Opportunity: India’s first-ever virtual corporate internship
- In collaboration with higher secondary schools and colleges.
- A platform that will bring together students and channelize their energies, where they not only get to collaborate with like-minded others from different schools and colleges but will get a big thumbs up from parents also.
- Each student on the platform only commits x hours a day, so that it doesn’t affect their regular studies.
- They work to solve real-life problems of corporates which are also looking for disruptions and freshness in ideas. An extremely intuitive film or a static digital ad becoming a conversational commerce avenue are possibilities if students within their specific streams, e.g. Media get to write, direct, create, edit, act and robotics get to research, design, test and build.
- Combined certificates (the school/college + corporate house) and scholarship for the chosen ideas, provided by corporates.
- The scholarship can be used for a relevant online course from a very reputed global university. The combined completion certificate to feature the Indian school/college, the global university, and the Indian corporate.
- Students and the schools/colleges to get promotion as disruptive thinkers as well as additional revenue opportunities.
- It helps open the minds of students to the practical world outside.
- Corporates to get brilliant ideas without the fixed cost being committed.
Who can use this as a business avenue?
Any educational institution/any corporate house/any online education/upskill service can come forward to embrace this opportunity. Y&A Transformation can help, if needed, to make this a reality.
