How Covid19 impacted the plans of HEIs like imparting skills, practical training and real world exposure to the students?

Covid19 impact was immense on all the sections of society. The Higher Education Institutes today have the responsibility of not just awarding the degree or diploma to the students, but to may them career ready. Beyond the books, a lot of effort is needed in the skills training.

For Soft skills, majority of Higher education institutes organise sessions by internal or external experts. Due to lockdown, these sessions could be orgnaised in the online mode only. The impact and learning from such session would have not been so effective.

Similarly, there are lots of workshops, live projects, experiential learning in the corporate projects and training programme, which were not so effective too. But, the HEIs kept innovating and devised their plans to keep the momentum to make the students job-ready.

I welcome other colleagues from Higher Education Institutes to share their experiences on this topic and lets develop a structured document for sharing with larger public.

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Dr Saurabh Mittal

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