The Founding Story
ISS was built because we believed something very simple: that the gap between what Indian students learn and what Indian employers need is not going to be fixed by more courses. It's going to be fixed by fewer, better ones — with much higher standards.
India produces 1.5 million engineering graduates every year. Less than half are job-ready. The problem isn't intelligence — India has more than enough of that. The problem is what we ask students to do with their time. We ask them to memorise. We ask them to sit exams. We ask them to attend lectures delivered by people who last worked in the industry a decade ago.
ISS was designed to be different in one foundational way: we refuse to separate learning from doing. Every session is live. Every practitioner is actively doing the work they teach. Every student leaves with something they built — not something they were given.
The name is deliberate. Indian School of Skills. Not a bootcamp. Not a platform. Not a subscription. A school — with admissions, with standards, with accountability, and with a belief that the students who go through it will become the practitioners who teach the next cohort.
What ISS Believes
There is no video library. No 2x speed. You show up or you fall behind — because that is what real work looks like.
You apply. We review your intent, your goals, and your readiness. If the fit is real, you earn your seat. That changes your relationship with the work entirely.
You exit ISS with something you built — a deployed agent, a live campaign with real data, a published design case study. The market rewards what you can show.
Every ISS session is led by someone currently doing the work they teach. Not someone who studied it a decade ago.
25–30 students per cohort. This is a school, not a platform. Scale is not the mission. Quality is the mission.
The Founders
A senior product leader with more than a decade of experience across education and industry in India and the MENA region. After helping train and shape more than 1,000 product managers, Chirag started Indian School of Skills to bring a skill-first learning model, inspired by what works in the UK, to India.
ISS is founder-led, practitioner-built, and designed for small, serious cohorts.
Contact
For admissions questions, WhatsApp is the fastest. For everything else, email works.