Emversity partners with Cambridge University Press & Assessment to strengthen global employability of India’s healthcare workforce

New Delhi: 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.