India’s leading institute for Design, Fashion, Creative Business and Contemporary Media, Pearl Academy has been awarded the National Education Excellence Award 2021 in the ‘Best Design Institute’ category for the sixth consecutive year.
The award was presented at the ASSOCHAM 14th National Education Summit. It was received by Seema Mahajan, Academic President, Pearl Academy and Emanuel Maia, Dean, School of Creative Practice from Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.
Pearl Academy also bagged this year’s ‘Excellence in Creative & Performing Arts’ award from FICCI. The award was received by Prof Nandita Abraham, President, Pearl Academy during the 16th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2021.
Pearl Academy has been providing the best of design and creative education through tech-driven modern pedagogy, relevant industry exposure and globally enhanced curriculum and faculty with rich academic and industry experience.
The academy has developed and sent over 2,300 customized kits to students to set up mini-studios in their homes. These kits vary as per the program and curriculum requirements to include Wacom tablets, sewing machines, fashion mannequins/ mini-dress forms, drafting boards, hand-knitting devices, block-printing kits, Arduino kits, software stacks, sketching kits and softwares.
Besides this, students have access to full Adobe Creative Suite, Business of Fashion, Coursera, WGSN and digital library to supplement the classroom lectures.
The institute has also created knowledge-development modules that partnered with an international platform for designers- Arts Thread- to help students showcase their work to the global fraternity.
It set up more than 150 virtual jury boards that shared an industry perspective on their projects and mentored them on a regular basis.
The institute has been awarded a score of 150/150 for e-learning and is QS I.Gauge E-Lead certified.
Besides this, its faculty members have been trained and certified in virtual teaching from the University of California.
