Hyderabad, March 2
TalentSprint, an schooling expertise platform, has launched the third cohort of its Women Engineers Programme (WE) in affiliation with Google.
Targeted at first-year women engineering students from throughout the nation, the programme will rope in 500 candidates. The programme will begin from May 2021.
The final date for submission of functions is March 21, 2021.
The NSE subsidiary began the programme in 2019 to handle gender disparity within the IT business.
“Women characterize simply 26 per cent of the worldwide tech workforce. We search to handle this gender imbalance by deciding on, coaching, and nurturing women engineering students,” Santanu Paul, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at TalentSprint, stated.
About 220 students had been chosen for the primary two cohorts.
“Admission to the third cohort will likely be by a rigorous multi-stage choice course of. Students invited to affix this cohort could obtain partial or full monetary support, based mostly on their benefit and monetary backgrounds,” he stated.
“For tech to actually fulfil the promise of levelling the enjoying area and creating universally related options, the illustration of women in tech organisations is the important thing,” Venkataraman, Vice President, Search Ads, Google, stated.
