Education Employability and Skilling
Amazon India launches online academy to coach future engineers
13 Jan 2021
“Amazon Academy”, available as a website and an Android
smartphone app, will offer learning material, live lectures and assessments to
help students prepare for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which allows
entry into top engineering schools across India.
Content on the platform is currently available free and will
remain free for “the next few months”, Amazon India said in a statement.
Each year, close to two million aspirants to coveted
undergraduate engineering courses take the government-run JEE, for which some
take additional classes with private tutors. Many of those tuition centers have
either moved online or shut during the pandemic.
The full article was originally published on Reuters