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Quest 2 Learn Summit 2023
Quest 2 Learn Summit 2023 This year’s Quest 2 Learn (Q2L) annual summit brought together 200+ educators, design thinkers, technologists, civil society, CSRs and government officials to explore what it takes to build radical futures in the event of AI advances and climate emergency. Read Concept Note Read Concept Note At A Glance 7 Plenary …
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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 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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Digital Literacy Boot Camps in the North East
MyQuest ran a three-day boot camp in Kohima, Nagaland to train youth with critical digital literacy skills for the 21st century. The Microsoft-YouthSpark boot camps comprised sessions on digital literacy and introducing youth to programming concepts through Quest’s customised Scratch programming toolkit as well as basic HTML programming to create websites for local businesses. The …
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The Learner Publication
Launched at our annual Quest 2 Learn Summit, The Learner is our first annual publication that explores diverse areas of learning from research studies to impact stories of young people throughout India.
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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Career Day at NVTI in New Delhi
Career Day is an opportunity for students to showcase all they have learned and researched. The students of the National Vocational Training Institute for Women in Noida held Career Day recently held their own Career Day. Career Day is a part of a youth employability project run with Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Dasra along …
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The Hub
Getting great tools into educators’ hands is an important part of delivering on the promise of quality education for every student. Our newest offering, The Hub contains tools that empower educators to engage with blended learning strategies, materials and networks to comprehensively develop 21st century learners and build their social capital. The Hub contains four …
Anandshala Selected as one of the Best Practices in Education by Ministry of Rural Development
Under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Anandshala was selected as one of the top 100 best practices in Education in the rural development sector. MoRD identifies successful micro-level initiatives and developmental practices across rural India so that they can be brought into mainstream deliberation and wider adaptation. …
