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Jindal law school “NEE, with its portfolio of high- weeks duration courses in fields such
scholarships quality leadership programmes from as Full Stack with Javascript (MEVN
Script), Full-stack with Python, Game
some of the world’s best universities
SONIPAT, JUNE 3. The Jindal Global Law will augment the high quality, skill- Development, Product Design UI/UX,
School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global based professional learning offer- Quality Engineering, and Blockchain
University (JGU), Sonipat will award ings of Great Learning to collabora- development.
500 scholarships to students joining tively realise the goal of becoming the “We are thrilled to announce the
the school in the new academic year world’s largest provider of executive fourth batch of Fynd Academy. The
2022-23. “JGLS has decided to award education, continuing education and growing market demand for block-
500 scholarships to meritorious stu- lifelong learning,” said M oh it J a i , chain, game development engineers
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dents who join JGLS with high merit founder-CEO of NEE in a media state- and product design professionals has
in the entrance exam and whose an- ment. Northwest offers executive motivated us to add these courses to
nual parental income is less than the education programmes of universi- our repertoire. Our programmes have
limit prescribed by the university, in ties such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Yale, empowered 190 individuals to learn
the new academic year 2022-23. Dur- UCLA, University of Chicago, National in-demand programming languages.
ing the past 13 years since it was es- University of Singapore, among others This initiative aligns with our aim to
tablished, O.P. Jindal Global Univer- on business management, leadership, set a lifelong growth path for all train-
sity has awarded scholarships valued technology, healthcare, and innova- ees willing to enrol in our courses and
over Rs.250 crore with almost half tion to executives in 50 countries. join Fynd. So far, 48 students out of
the students who graduated having Great Learning collaborates with our three batches have joined our
received some scholarship amount. the best universities worldwide in- dedicated team and we expect more
This is important to ensure equity and cluding Stanford and Northwestern numbers to follow soon,” said a rooq
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access while maintaining the highest universities (USA), National Univer- A da m , co-founder of Fynd.
standards of excellence in legal educa- sity of Singapore (NUS), Deakin Uni-
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tion,” says r. C . a j K u m a r, found- versity (Australia), IIT-Madras, IIT- SkillEnable scholarships
ing vice chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Roorkee (India) and others to enable
Global University, Sonipat (Haryana). them to deliver degree, diploma and NEW DELHI, MAY 12. SkillEnable, a
According to Raj Kumar, JGLS certificate programmes. Kolkata-based ed-tech academy, will
scholarships are awarded on the ba- “The guiding philosophy of both award 500 students scholarships up
sis of merit-cum-means. Students companies is to make high quality to Rs.1 lakh each in 2022-23, to en-
from households with annual income education accessible, and equip learn- courage school-leaving and tertiary
above Rs.30 lakh are ineligible. Merit ers with the skills required to succeed students to pursue data science as a
is determined by scores in the national in the new digital economy. NEE will career path.
level entrance exam LSAT-India. “We augment Great Learning’s efforts The company has designed an in-
strictly implement the household to provide learners across the globe tensive merit-based selection process
income criterion to ensure that the with best in-class learning opportuni- to identify students with strong apti-
scholarships are awarded to those who ties from the world’s top universities,” tude for data science, which will make
need it most,” he said in a statement says oh a n L a k h a m ra j u , founder- them eligible for the scholarships after
M
issued by O.P. Jindal Global Univer- CEO of Great Learning. signing up for SkillEnable’s courses in
sity. data science, AI and ML.
In the EW India Higher Education Fynd’s new programmes “The prime focus of the academy
Rankings 2022-23, JGU is ranked is to enhance employment opportu-
India's #1 private liberal arts and hu- MUMBAI, MAY 24. Reliance Indus- nities of our students. We provide
manities university. tries-backed Fynd, India’s largest our students with job-relevant skills
omnichannel platform and multi- set training, networking skills, inter-
BYJU’s latest acquisition platform tech company, invites its view practice and other employability
enhancing programmes,” says N ir-
fourth batch of students. The acad-
BENGALURU, MAY 11. Great Lakes E- emy provides technical and practical p e k s h K u m b h a t, founder-CEO of
learning Services Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi- skills training to freshers and working SkillEnable.
based company of the Bengaluru- professionals. Applicants who clear According to Kumbhat, last year
based edtech BYJU’s Group has the generic Fynd Academy Entrance the academy successfully placed 91
acquired Singapore-based Northwest Exam are eligible to enrol in courses of percent of its graduating batch with
Executive Education (NEE), a global their choice to transform themselves the starting remuneration of freshers
provider of executive education pro- into industry-ready professionals. averaging Rs.7 lakh per annum, and
grammes. Fynd Academy provides seven-12 Rs.14 lakh for in-service professionals.

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