IT major Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has partnered with Thanjavur-based SASTRA Deemed University to train over 2,000 teachers from Tamil Nadu on digital teaching methods, and also set up a teachers training centre at the varsity campus.

• More than 2,000 school teachers from various educational institutions across Tier-II and -III cities from Tamil Nadu would be trained at the training centre.

• Executive Vice-President and Head Global Human Resources, TCS, Ajoyendra Mukherjee said “Technology is rapidly transforming the education sector with digital technologies increasingly becoming an integral part of the students lifestyle.”

• The training programme would be offered predominantly to school teachers across primary, secondary, higher secondary and to professional college teachers, the release said. Each six-day training programme would be organised in batches of 45 at the centre. The first batch is expected to commence in October.

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