{"id":924175,"date":"2025-04-22T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=924175"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:58:58","slug":"the-big-idea-scaling-up-online-skilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/the-big-idea-scaling-up-online-skilling\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: Scaling up online skilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was no eureka moment,\u201d Ronnie Screwvala, media mogul and co-founder of upGrad says, as he recalls the starting days of upGrad. The idea of launching an online higher education platform that focuses on upskilling was a result of his non-profit work in the education sector since the 1990s. \u201cEspecially for me, in my second innings, it was to validate what I could do for the next 20 years,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was no eureka moment,\u201d Ronnie Screwvala, media mogul and co-founder of upGrad says, as he recalls the starting days of upGrad. The idea of launching an online higher education platform that focuses on upskilling was a result of his non-profit work in the education sector since the 1990s. \u201cEspecially for me, in my second innings, it was to validate what I could do for the next 20 years,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}