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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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Zscaler, Airtel launch India AI Cyber Research Centre
New hub to boost cyber resilience and trusted AI use
NEW DELHI: As India’s digital engine roars ahead, so do the risks riding shotgun. In response, Zscaler, Inc. and Bharti Airtel have joined hands to launch the AI and Cyber Threat Research Center – India, a national initiative aimed at strengthening the country’s cyber defences and accelerating responsible AI adoption.
The centre is designed as a multi stakeholder platform that brings together industry, government and academia. Its mission is clear: protect critical sectors such as telecom, banking and energy, shield everyday digital users, and future proof India’s fast expanding online ecosystem.
India has long been a major innovation hub for Zscaler, with a substantial portion of its cyber research talent based here. With this new centre, that footprint evolves into a national collaboration engine. The idea is simple but ambitious, build in India, for India, and help power the country’s journey towards a secure and digitally self reliant future.
The timing is telling. India is building digital systems at population scale, not just enterprise scale. That scale has widened the attack surface dramatically. At the same time, cyber criminals and nation state actors are deploying AI to scan, probe and exploit vulnerabilities in minutes.
Zscaler’s research arm, ThreatLabz India, reports millions of infiltration attempts every month. These include espionage campaigns linked to regional geopolitical tensions, 1.2 million intrusion attempts from 20,000 sources targeting 58 Indian digital entities, and a rise in zero day exploit attempts across multiple industries.
In such an environment, perimeter based security models are struggling to keep pace. The new centre aims to push a shift towards secure by design systems and Zero Trust architecture.
Its strategy rests on four pillars: protect through real time intelligence, remediate by working directly with government agencies, facilitate adoption of AI driven security and Zero Trust frameworks, and build a stronger cybersecurity talent pipeline through specialised certifications.
As founding members, Zscaler and Airtel will combine global threat intelligence with local network visibility. Zscaler will deploy a dedicated India focused research team and draw insights from its Zero Trust Exchange platform, which processes over 500 billion daily transactions worldwide. Airtel, meanwhile, will contribute deep visibility into IoT and mobile traffic, helping detect suspicious activity faster and coordinate response across the ecosystem.
Bharti Airtel executive vice chairman Gopal Vittal, said the partnership extends Airtel’s commitment to safeguarding customers and the nation’s digital fabric. He added that the collaboration would address challenges unique to the Indian market and encourage secure and confident digital engagement.
Zscaler chief executive, chairman and founder Jay Chaudhry, said India’s digital ambition cannot be secured with legacy firewalls and VPNs. He noted that a modern Zero Trust architecture is essential for a hyper connected world and that the new centre would harness the scale of Zscaler’s global security cloud while empowering a new generation of Indian cyber defenders.
Additional members from critical public and private sectors are expected to join the initiative in the coming months, expanding its scope and deepening collaboration.
In a world where threats travel at machine speed, India’s answer is to think faster, collaborate wider and build smarter.
