With a view to develop India's IT potential, Google has announced IT degrees called Android Nanodegrees and scholarships in partnership with online education platform Udacity and Tata Trusts. The duration of these degrees would be between 6 to 9 months and it will cost $148 per month. However, the company claims to return 50% of the tuition fee on successful completion of the degree by a student. The course will be entirely online. The software training shall be focused on app and mobile operating system development and will be conducted by US based Google instructors. Google, Udacity and Tata Trust have teamed up for offering 1,000 scholarships for the course. The companies also claim that upon completion of the course, all students will be invited for a job fair conducted by Google in India. Google says that at present, India has world's second largest number of software developers accounting to almost 3.6 million but only a very small amount of successful apps developed by Indians. With this move, Google aims to bridge this gap and enhance skills of this population so as to cash in on those later. Udacity's expansion in India As part of the move, Udacity plans to open new offices across India, expand its team and increase partnerships with Indian companies. So far, its seven nanondegrees for front-end Web developer, Android developer, data analyst, iOS developer, intro to programming, full stack developer and tech entrepreneur were free of cost, available worldwide and accepted by IT companies such…
