GoDaddy partnered with EduSkills in order to help boost entrepreneurship and digital skills development in India. GoDaddy offers an online training and certification program, at GoDaddy Academy. The program aims to train educators across EduSkills’ over 800 partner universities and engineering colleges across India.
To make Indian students more employable
This partnership will empower students and educators to gain knowledge and expertise. The courses cover basic coding language concepts like HTML and JavaScript, along with more intensive topics such as Database and Cloud applications.
Shubhajit Jagadev, Executive Director, EduSkills, talked about the partnership, saying,
“The ongoing pandemic has definitely made Indians rethink their career options, with many employers around the world choosing candidates with technical skills and other proficiencies needed to adjust to the new ways of working in a digital environment. We believe that the GoDaddy Academy certifications will be an important addition in helping to make our students more employable and relevant in the job market. We are excited to partner with GoDaddy for this initiative and work towards creating a digital skills ecosystem that prepares India’s workforce for jobs of the future.”
The GoDaddy Academy offers a wide array of modular courses ranging from understanding the basics of building a professional website and a more feature-rich WordPress website, including tools and ideas for digital marketing, SEO, and other digital topic areas.