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K-DISC peer mentors to guide 50k students for getting jobs
The New Indian Express Kannur
|July 21, 2025
REMEMBER that friend who taught you everything at the last minute before the exam? Now think of having the same friend guiding you to get a job, by mentoring you through job-oriented online courses.
That is what K-DISC (Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council) is planning through its new venture, 'Learners' Fest', which aims to aid close to 50,000 students by September.
Under the Vijnana Keralam initiative, K-DISC, the advisory body of the state government, will be providing nearly 250 online courses in 40 developing and highly employable domains from platforms like Coursera and LinkedIn, free of cost. The domains span from finance and marketing to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
This story is from the July 21, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kannur.
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