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Emversity, Cambridge join hands to boost nursing employability
MUMBAI: Emversity has joined forces with Cambridge University Press and Assessment to give India’s aspiring nurses a decisive edge in the job market. The collaboration brings the Cambridge English for Healthcare Professionals programme to Emversity’s skilling centres and partner universities, offering structured and internationally benchmarked communication training for nursing learners across the country.
The move comes at a crucial time. India has only 17.2 nurses for every 10,000 people, contributing to a staggering 5.8-million shortage in the healthcare workforce. While capacity remains a major concern, employers repeatedly point to communication as one of the biggest barriers to employability. The Cambridge programme is designed to fill exactly this gap.
Built around the CEFR framework from A1 to B1, the training equips learners with practical English skills needed on the job. This includes clear communication with patients, documentation, teamwork, and precision during emergencies. It also supports learners preparing for assessments such as the occupational English test, making it relevant for both domestic and international pathways.
Emversity founder and CEO Vivek Sinha, said the world’s demand for skilled healthcare talent continues to climb, and India is well placed to help bridge the shortage. He added that Emversity aims to equip over one lakh nursing professionals with workplace communication competencies by 2030, calling the Cambridge collaboration a vital step towards that goal.
Emversity chief technology officer Manish Kumar, noted that hospitals consistently highlight three missing skill sets among healthcare graduates: communication, computing and critical thinking. The partnership directly addresses the first, giving learners confidence and clarity across clinical environments.
From the Cambridge side, regional director for English in South Asia, TK Arunachalam, emphasised that the programme blends learning and assessment in a healthcare context, ensuring learners are trained and tested to global standards.
For India’s healthcare ecosystem, the partnership adds rigour where it is most needed. By embedding global communication skills within allied health skilling, Emversity and Cambridge are strengthening the country’s talent pipeline while supporting learners who aspire to build careers at home or abroad.
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Google secures AP discom licence to power $15bn Vizag AI hub
First-of-its-kind move gives tech giant grid control for massive 1GW campus
VISAKHAPATNAM: Google has secured a rare electricity distribution company licence in Andhra Pradesh, marking a decisive shift from being just a power consumer to becoming a power distributor for its upcoming mega data centre hub in Visakhapatnam.
The move effectively rewrites the rulebook for hyperscalers in India. Instead of relying on state utilities, Google will be able to procure electricity directly from generators, including its own renewable sources. This not only cuts out intermediaries but also gives the company tighter control over supply, reliability and long-term costs.
For a business where electricity can account for up to 60 per cent of operating expenses, the economics are hard to ignore. Even more critical is uptime. Data centres demand near-perfect reliability, and owning the distribution layer allows Google to manage outages and load balancing with far greater precision.
At the heart of the plan is a sprawling 1-gigawatt data centre ecosystem spread across more than 600 acres in three locations near Vizag. With an estimated investment of $15 billion over five years, the project is set to become India’s largest single foreign direct investment and Google’s biggest AI-focused facility outside the United States.
The campus is being designed with artificial intelligence workloads in mind, housing the company’s custom tensor processing units to power services such as Gemini, Search and Google Cloud. In scale, the planned capacity is comparable to powering a small city.
Google is not building alone. It has partnered with Adani Infrastructure to develop the physical campuses, while Bharti Airtel will set up an international subsea cable landing station. This connectivity backbone is expected to link the hub directly to a dozen countries, ensuring low latency for global data traffic.
Vizag’s coastal location plays a key role in that strategy. It enables direct access to subsea cables and provides the large volumes of water needed for cooling data centre operations. Equally important is policy backing from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which fast-tracked approvals and granted the uncommon discom licence to anchor the investment.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for April 28, 2026, with phased commissioning expected to begin by July 2028.
The broader signal is clear. As AI workloads surge, hyperscalers are no longer content plugging into existing infrastructure. They are beginning to build and control it. In Vizag, Google is not just setting up a data centre, it is wiring up its own future.
