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Quest 2 Learn | Gujarat Edition
In a first, Quest 2 Learn (Q2L) is hosting a state-level event bringing together key stakeholders in Gujarat’s education and skilling sectors. This edition will have a diverse range of dialogues, panels and thought-provoking conversations emphasizing the relevance of self- learning, to enable a successful school-to-work transition for young people, in a world struck by …
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MSDE and Quest Alliance Launch the Upgraded Employability Skills Curriculum
The job market is more competitive now than it has ever been. Employers seek employability skills as crucial qualities in their future employees, along with subject matter expertise. To aid this, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Quest Alliance have upgraded the Employability Skills curriculum that’s offered to millions of young people across …
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Quest-Accenture-Cisco Consortium To Empower 1.5 Million Youth in ITIs
The consortium — also known as the Future Right Skills Network — with Accenture, Cisco and Quest Alliance is set to train 1.5 million youth for the digital economy. The in-classroom program will deliver more than 240 hours of training to impart skills for digital literacy and fluency; workplace readiness, including creative problem solving …
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Career Conquest | Winner of Core77 Design Awards 2019
Career Conquest is a set of 36 interactive mobisodes (mobile-episodes) that equip young people with the mindset, skills and knowledge to craft fulfilling careers for themselves. They empower the learners to own their professional journeys by developing a foundational understanding of their own self and work possibilities of the future. The target user group for …
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Our Strategic Plan 2019-2023
A new year has lined up new opportunities to transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration. Learnings cumulated over a decade have shaped our approach to learners, educators, institutions, governments and civil society organizations. To reinforce our commitment, we’re amplifying our work, advocacy and scope.For the next five years, we will empower …
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White Paper on the Future of Jobs and Skills in India
We released a white paper titled Skills for Future Jobs: Technology and the Future of Work in India on March 13th, 2018, in New Delhi. The main focus of this white paper was to raise awareness and drive conversation around 21st century skills set needed in India as well as enable educators to address critical gaps in the quality of …
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Building Model Clusters and Schools
As part of the Anandshala program in Samastipur, we are collaborating with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) which has brought a multicultural group of 17 volunteers from Britain and India to help build model clusters and schools. Technology as a strategy has been deployed in these centres where tablets, battery-operated projectors and speakers are being used …
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Quest Alliance and IBM Partnership for STEM for girls
Quest and IBM believe that the disparity today of women in STEM careers can be reduced dramatically if tens of thousands of girls across India are given an opportunity to explore and experience the power of coding their own projects, using coding as a means for self-expression and engaging with volunteers from IBM who …
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Career Conquest | Winner of Core77 Design Awards 2019
Career Conquest is a set of 36 interactive mobisodes (mobile-episodes) that equip young people with the mindset, skills and knowledge to craft fulfilling careers for themselves. They empower the learners to own their professional journeys by developing a foundational understanding of their own self and work possibilities of the future. The target user group for …
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Quest and J.P. Morgan Partnership for ITI Development
The intervention is aimed to provide advanced skills development courses to 5,000 young women pursuing professional technical education in 15 government-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and polytechnics across Delhi-NCR region and Rajasthan. Critical job-specific soft-skills like communication, professional etiquette, digital literacy and life-skills is part of the training curriculum. Eleven all-women ITIs in Delhi-NCR region and …
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Central Square Foundation Partnership
Quest Alliance entered into a new partnership with Central Square Foundation to work towards the integration of an employability skills curriculum in the school system for students in grades nine through twelve. The State Council of Education and Training (SCERT) in Delhi has approved the curriculum that focuses on English Communication, Life and Career Skills, Workplace …
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Navigator Training
We held our first training of trainers in Bengaluru as a part of our new partnership with Dasra and Bank of America. The focus of the day-long training was to introduce our toolkits to our trainers, to hold sessions on the importance of women’s employability and to cover the basics of facilitation. The twelve trainers …
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