Key Highlights

• Emversity has partnered with Motherhood Hospitals to launch a co-branded certification programme in Maternal and Newborn Care across higher education institutions in India.
• The programme integrates clinical expertise into academic delivery, with the curriculum co-developed alongside Motherhood’s specialists and aligned to real-world maternal and neonatal care practices.
• Students will receive a joint certification from Emversity and Motherhood Hospitals, combining academic learning with industry validation.
• The partnership leverages Emversity’s national university network and Motherhood’s clinical scale to build job-ready talent for maternal and neonatal healthcare.

Bengaluru, India, 27th April 2026: Emversity, India's leading industry-skilling and technology partner to universities, has announced a strategic partnership with Motherhood Hospitals (Rhea Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.), one of India's largest specialty hospital chains for women and childcare, to co-create and deliver a certification programme in Maternal and Newborn Care for students enrolled in Higher Education Institutions across India.

The programme is designed to bridge academic learning with real-world clinical practices, aligning healthcare education with the competencies demanded by India's rapidly expanding maternal and neonatal care sector. Students at partner universities will receive joint certification co-issued by Emversity and Motherhood Hospitals upon completion.

Under this collaboration, Emversity will develop the curriculum in close consultation with Motherhood's clinical teams, aligning it to national skilling standards and practical relevance. Emversity will also manage delivery logistics — including trainer onboarding, student enrolment, assessments, and certification issuance — across its network of 40+ university partners in 24 states. Motherhood Hospitals will provide domain expertise, clinical validation, and industry endorsement to the programme structure.

Emversity, India's leading industry-skilling network, has partnered with Cambridge University Press & Assessment to deliver specialised English language training for nursing learners through the Cambridge English for Healthcare Professionals program. Effective immediately, the program will be delivered across Emversity's skill-development centres and through its network of university partnerships. It will complement existing academic curricula, ensuring that learners gain structured, internationally benchmarked communication skills. The collaboration addresses a critical employability barrier in India's healthcare sector, equipping nursing professionals with essential communication skills required for healthcare settings both in India and internationally.

India faces a significant nursing shortage, with only 17.2 nurses per 10,000 people, contributing to an estimated 5.8 million-person gap in the healthcare workforce. While capacity is a challenge, employers often highlight communication skills as a major barrier to employability. The Cambridge English for Healthcare Professionals program addresses this gap by strengthening workplace English language competencies specifically required in clinical settings.

The training, benchmarked to international CEFR standards (A1–B1,  covering beginner to intermediate proficiency), equips learners with the practical communication skills needed for patient interaction, case documentation, teamwork communication, and clarity in emergencies. It also supports learners preparing for pathways like the Occupational English Test (OET). 

Vivek Sinha, Founder & CEO, Emversity, comments:

"The world faces a critical shortage of skilled healthcare talent, and India is uniquely positioned to fill this gap. Communication skills are a significant part of this talent deficit. By 2030, we aim to equip over one lakh nursing professionals with essential workplace communication competencies. Our collaboration with Cambridge University Press & Assessment is critical to building the structured pathway India's healthcare workforce needs."

Manish Kumar, Chief Technology Officer, Emversity, said:

“When we speak with hospitals and diagnostic labs, they uniformly highlight three key gaps in most healthcare and paramedical graduates: communication skills, computing skills and critical thinking. Our partnership with Cambridge directly addresses the communication component. Through this purpose-built healthcare communication training, we equip our learners with the confidence and clarity to excel in Indian healthcare and to pursue opportunities abroad.”

TK Arunachalam, Regional Director – English, South Asia, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, added:
“The specialised content from Cambridge includes both learning and assessment wrapped in a healthcare environment. This comprehensive approach provides learners with a complete solution that not only delivers focused learning but also benchmarks them against an internationally accepted CEFR scale.”

By bridging essential communication gaps, the collaboration strengthens the overall quality of healthcare skilling in India. Together, Emversity and Cambridge are embedding global communication standards within India’s allied healthcare training ecosystem and supporting the international aspirations of its workforce.

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