Urdu Promotion And Computers: January 2018

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Google IT Certificate course enrollment begins at Coursera: Be job ready in just 8 months

NEW DELHI: Tech giant Google and online education leaderCoursera recently launched a certificate course aimed at filling entry-level IT support jobs globally.
The enrollment for the Google IT Support Professional Certificate course has started today on the official website of the Coursera - www.coursera.org

The course has been developed by subject-matter experts at Google and will be offered exclusively on Coursera.

The course aims to help anyone with no prior experience to be ready for an entry-level IT support job in 8 to 12 months.

The program will be offered through a dynamic mix of video lectures, quizzes, and hands-on labs and widgets. It will also introduce candidates to troubleshooting and customer service, networking, operating systems, system administration, automation, and security.

The programme has been divided into 6 courses - Technical Support Fundamentals, The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking, Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User, System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services, IT Automation: It's not that scary!, and IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts.

If the candidates dedicate at least 8-10 hours a week, they can complete the certificate in about just eight months.

Saturday, January 20, 2018

UP CM Yogi: No need to close madrassas; modernise them

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has ruled out closure of madrassas and said that shutting them down was no solution. In his address at the 'Vikas Samanvay Baithak' (Development coordination meeting) of minority affairs ministers from nine states and Union Territories, Yogi said that there was need to modernise madrassas instead of shutting them down.
The meeting was chaired by Union minister for minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

While elaborating on modernisation of madrassas, in what is being seen as his first minority outreach bid, the chief minister said that mathematics, science, computers should be included in curriculum as only modern education can help build good future of students.

"I have been saying this about Sanskrit schools too; that they should modernise as per the current needs," the CM said. "Without good education, students don't get jobs and are prone to get misguided. They are unable to nurture their talent and channelise their energy and fail to contribute to nation building," he said.

'Minorities' high drop-out rate a concern'