Upskill a peer-to-peer skill-sharing platform

A peer-to-peer skill sharing platform. It enables individuals and organizations to share skills and exchange technical knowledge to bridge the skill gap in Bangladesh. Thereby upskill tackles the quality, scalability, and affordability issues of skills acquisition in Bangladesh. 

In the past 6 months, Upskill has trained 600+ individuals and paid 10,00,000 taka to trainers who used the platform. It helps learners by curating specialized content and trainers to establish their brands in addition to earning. 

Three different education mediums: English, Bangla and Madrassa. Learning outcome is however dampened by wide used rate learning methods across institutions.

Around 4.6 million children of primary school age are not pursuing their education in urban slums and rural areas (UNICEF).

By 10th grade, more than 80% of students receive private tutoring in Bangladesh (CAMPE 2008).

Some argue that tutoring is in fact the main learning modality in higher education in Bangladesh (World Bank 2014).

Public Universities in Urban areas and Public Rural Colleges charge the lowest costs (World Bank 2014).

For such institutions, average costs, at least for tuition and fees were below taka 10000 annually.

Private University system comes at a high financial cost to students.

Tuition fees are typically taka 47500- taka 90000, out of reach for many families  (ADB report, Oct 2016)

Among unemployed youth, 62% cited lack of education as the main obstacle to employment, while only a tiny proportion cited lack of available jobs.

Another 16% mentioned lack of training. Together these facts suggest that neither the volume nor the nature of education and training are adequate to the demands of the job market.

Upskill typically sees 60% of young professionals, 20% startup entrepreneurs, and 20% of university students among its learners. Additionally, it is also a platform that offers a unique opportunity to various domain experts and senior professionals to share their skills and monetize on it. 

1.                   Scalability

2.                   Quality

3.                   Affordability

There’s no other platform in the market that offers this kind of solution. Upskill’s product offers three unique features as a platform - day and month long workshops, consultancy, and free online lessons. Additionally, Upskill also runs incubator programs and alternative investment forums in an effort to catalyze the development of the startup ecosystem in the country.

It addresses quality, scalability, and affordability at the same time. 

Launch the product and reach 500,000 beneficiaries 

Technical guidance and funding for operations

Automate processes and raise funding

8 team members 

5 years of expertise in the development of startup ecosystem of Bangladesh and pioneering strategic partnerships in the tech industry. 

70 percent of workshop revenue and 100 percent of incubator and investment forums.

Short term plan-

1. Build a product centric scalable business which can disrupt skill training in Bangladesh. 

2. Reach Break Even in 3-4 months. 

Long term plan-

1. Offer certification course on tech and business that are 3 months, 6 months and 1 year. 

2. We can bring in international partner for accreditation for these certificates.  

We are applying to the tiger challenge because we believe our work towards creating more skilled youth in Bangladesh is important and fits the criteria of the Tiger Cage Challenge. 

 Partnerships that equip us with payment gateways and B2B training opportunities. 

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