Online education push reformative but policy lacks clarity, structure

NEW DELHI: About three years into her job, software engineer Singdha Prakash realised that her work at a Bangalore technology firm has become boring and repetitive.

Unsure of her career path, Prakash took a 11-month-long online course in data science, offered jointly by the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore and ed-tech company upGrad.

“Following the course, I switched my job with a 48% jump in my salary,” she claimed. “Though it’s not a full-fledged degree, yet it is industry relevant and helped me in my career growth,” Prakash said. Several of her contemporaries are now looking at online courses without much inhibition, she said.