UNESCO to set up gaming hub in AP

Vizag Dec 20: Andrapradesh would get another international center of excellence soon. The Andhra Pradesh Government in collaboration with UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) has decided to set up a center of excellence for children with learning differences as well as a gaming for e-learning hub.

Sources said that the center is first of its kind in Asia -Pacific Region. UNESCO MGIEP director Anantha Kumar Duraiappah has announced the decision on Monday at the concluding session of the TECH-2017 a three-day session on education jointly organized by AP Government and the UNESCO.

He added that "We will have to decide on the infrastructural and logistical needs, the knowledge partner and institutional partner, and the governance of the hub. We will have a close connection with the universities and institutes like the IITs and the IIMs."

Duraiappah added that "The hub will advise the universities what the future courses that they have to be designing. The old style of just computer science and the design doesn't work. You have to bring them together. Recruiters often lament how they are unable to find candidates with multiple skills. This center will address that issue. Skill development will be one of the areas of focus. Many of the foreign firms are very excited about the center."