Manipal Global: Curriculum Career Continuum for India

A humble beginning from the barren hill region, Manipal Group is now India’s leading educational and healthcare brand! This reassures Manipal Group’s commitment to contribute the newly born nation to eradicate three biggest challenges i.e., poverty, illiteracy and poor health.

This journey started in 1949, when visionary Dr TMA Pai founded Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College to lead the coastal Karnataka people towards knowledge and education. As a further push, he established the region’s first medical college named Kasturba Medical College in 1953.

With the objective to alleviate three major challenges of newly independent India i.e., poverty, illiteracy and poor health, Manipal is now Institution of Eminence as well as one of the world’s best universities (Ranked 700-750 in QS World University Ranking; 9th among Indian universities as per NIRF).

Our Characteristics

The social impact was Manipal’s main focus. The prime attractions are as follows:

• Training to government school teachers to make the ‘virtual learning’ more effective through Virtual Classroom Learning Program.
• Scholar Program’ for meritorious students from disadvantaged sections coached in CET syllabi.
• Vocational training to unemployed youth from low-income families.
• Institution of Eminence ensures no deserving student is rejected for financial reasons.
• 2991 students benefited in 2018, average funding of Rs 1.3 L per student.
• The year-on-Year increase in scholarship corpus.

The Manipal Group is now involved in new frontiers of knowledge industry such as education, healthcare, research and assessment. The group is globally expanding with three universities in India, five international campuses, students from 80+ countries, 400,000 active students in the campuses and over 1 million alumni networks.

Fixing employability challenges

Manipal Global caters its services to students, educational institutions, employers and government and industry bodies. While we help students to identify their interest, strength, areas of improvement and provide learning programs for acquiring relevant skills resulting into the job, educational institutions get our help to attract and transform best students and offer them learning outcomes by building capabilities to train students on the most relevant skills.

We also help corporates hire the first-day productive employees and provide learning backbone that will retain their employability. The governments can utilize our solutions to maintain inclusion and fairness in hiring and also establish policy frameworks that will enhance employability through learning.

Our ‘Curriculum-to-Career’ Continuum Platform has products and solutions right from the time a student is evaluating career options and fitment up until the student’s continuous learner journey once he/she enters a career of choice.

We undertake wide-range of assessment including STEM, cognitive, domain and employability. Assessment delivered at different stages in the learner’s life cycle. Our learning solutions encompass college going individual up to senior management. Cutting-edge in-demand skills, job-ready programs, distance and online education and automation solutions are some of our characteristics.

We also offer state-of-the-art delivery of assessment and learning through proprietary tech. Our flexible, secure and accessible solutions and products can be delivered at scale across India. We attract respected faculty and SMEs to deliver high-end programs. Our faculties and SMEs have expertise in knowledge, instructional design, and assessment. All our programs are completely aligned with Bloom’s taxonomy.

With a consistent partnership with industry and government bodies, we generate demand for skills, develop a market-driven approach to provide the skills industry needs. We also maintain a large pool of clients across sectors.

Followings are our assessment services:

Support end to end recruitment

• Campus recruitment
• Off-Campus recruitment/Walk-ins

Assessment Delivery mode

• Proctored online computer-based mode
• Tracking - Remote proctored enabled mode

Assessment Solutions

• TracSkills for the emerging tech – a Nasscom-approved solution
• SpeechTrac
• SmartTest
• CodeTrac
• Pariksha
• AceTrac
• TracMARKS

Assessment Tests

• Cognitive assessment
• Communication assessment
• Behavioural assessment
• Domain level assessment
• Authess - Case study-based assessment

Capability to service at scale

• Over 43 million assessment delivered
• 400+ clients across India
• 350+ Test centres in cities across India
• 300+ domain of Tests available

Bridging skill gap

The scare of skill gap is becoming a real concern for steady economic growth. Traditional engineering and IT jobs are getting stagnated. Because of this, freshers are facing difficulty in finding suitable jobs after graduation. Organisations want skilled talents in very specialized or emerging technology areas.

Manipal’s courses fill this gap in high demand areas like Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security and other technologies. All courses have free introduction modules to help learners understand basics with no investment.

Both industry and job seekers are getting benefitted by our programs. Employers can get talents with specific skills while the job seekers able to kick start their career with high payment in reputed companies.

Helping students to complete their education and enter the job market through online and distance education. Strong tech along with qualified academic advisors ensure the learning outcomes. More than 500,000 learners trained through a mix of SLM and technology.

With a solid tech backbone, the modules are framed in bite-size in order to the learners to understand the concepts easily and deliver across the country. We can deliver our programs and solutions on any scale with high security and flexibility. We use cloud storage to avail the service any place on-demand in multi devices like web or mobile.

We ensure assessment management system and learning management system having contemporary and intuitive UX equipped with data engine, AI-ML, RPA, which will give custom reports and recommendations to the clients.

Industry's leading trainers and SMEs deliver our programs. We have over 300 faculty members, among them, 55 per cent have more than 20 years of experience and 68 per cent of them having 10-plus years of experience. 60% of our faculties hold a post-graduate degree. Among around 1700 SMEs, 85 per cent of them are from colleges, universities and institutions with experience range from 6 to 37 years. 75% are with Master’s Degree ranging from Engineering, Science, Humanities, Medical, Paramedical, IT etc. domains.

As discussed above, we are hugely following Bloom’s Taxonomy as describe below:

• Manipal solution is based on Cognition and Performance which primarily encapsulates Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Students are trained and tested on Knowledge and Comprehension in the form of formative assessments such as assignments, quizzes etc.
• All courses are hands-on allowing the students to work on projects and simulations which require analyzing, judging and arriving at solutions.
• We follow a proprietary and scientifically designed structured framework to design our courses and assessments
• Content developed by experienced trainers and experts to ensure no deviation from the framework.

Customized domain programs

Manipal also provides domain-specific and customized programs to our clients in the BFSI industry. The programs include credit management, stressed asset management, Retail banking, forex & treasury, risk management, branch management, MSME financing, customer service, leadership and soft skills and CPE and certification. All these are delivered through web and mobile.

Our client base and knowledge partners are vast across all the sectors we deal with. Some of the leading clients and knowledge partners are below:

Education – Leading examination boards - central and states, Tier-1 B-School’s, Large universities across the county – state-owned, private and deemed/deemed to be.

Government – Bodies like state road transport corporations, staff selection commissions, Metro rail corporations, Power Transmission Corporations, and other government departments that run large recruitment drives.

Public sector – Leading public sector banks, PSU’s and Oil Corporations.

Private sector – Leading private sector banks, IT/ITeS companies, Retail / CPG companies, BFSI companies, Manufacturing companies, Construction Technology Enablers, etc.

We also develop or customize our modules according to client’s requirements.

Building the country’s employability quotient

• Over 1 million trained in IT Domain, Higher Education
• Question Bank of over 2.5 L active questions across STEM, Behavioural, Cognitive, domain, etc
• More than 5 million assessments delivered

PG Diploma in Data Science: Job assured training program for fresh graduates in this emerging technology field.

IT Finishing School&Manipal Academy of BFSI: Short term courses to bridge industry- education curriculum gap and create “job-ready” graduates.

Our 1, 2, 3 are:

Tech culture – We are Educationists with an extremely strong tech culture;

Social DNA – we are an EdTech Company with a social DNA, thanks to our background; and

Tech backbone – Leveraging best in class learning management processes and technology to offer agility and flexibility of solutions.

Looking forward

During the COVID-19 crisis, various services and solutions from Manipal Global helped educational institutions to continue their operations seamlessly. The remote learning, teaching and assessment services are suitable for institutions, corporates and governments in the time of pandemic and after. We at Manipal are incorporating the technological advancement in all our products, services and solutions.

We are motivated by the social impact of our products, enabling learners to improve their employability, and finally, enabling India’s education ecosystem to become world-class. Manipal is gradually stretching its horizon to a new area in education and training. Recently, we launched a new training school for designers – Manipal Innovation and Design (MIND). Our growth is gradual and consistent as per the requirement of time.