Job market

Courses on offer include coding, machine learning, AI, blockchain, business analytics, digital marketing and design thinking, for those pursuing mainstream degrees. read more

While the Nordic countries, as always, have been successful in closing the gap faster, India’s rank has slipped from 108th to 112th over the last year. read more

Post-grad courses are more specialised than ever, with options in fields like disease biology, data study and ecosophical aesthetics. read more

More than 25,000 people have participated in mass “living funeral” services at Hyowon Healing Center since it opened in 2012, hoping to improve their lives by simulating their deaths. read more

The unemployment rate ticked up from 3.5% to 3.6%, still near a five-decade low. And for a second straight month, average hourly wages rose a decent if less-than-robust 3% from a year ago. read more

Today, AI, machine learning, and big data have become all-pervasive, with industries across the board exploring these technologies to become more competitive. read more

Short term exchange and study abroad programmes are taking a new shape. For students, it is not limited to cultural immersion, but is also about skills. For colleges, it’s a way to establish global presence. read more

Talent acquisition has steadily evolved with employers now linking it to a path to monetary success- a strategic and competence driven business function. Reports say that 95% Indian technical\/ non-technical graduates are unemployable, giving rise to... read more

While the demand has been dwindling over the past few years, the relatively poor performance of students in the state board’s Class 12 examination aggravated the slide. read more

As the job market scales up the skill-set level for hiring new recruits, the task for the new job entrants is getting difficult day by day. read more

The study showed that employment generation in the formal sector increased by 48 per cent to touch a 15-month high of 7.32 lakh in November 2018 as compared to 4.93 lakh in the year-ago month, as per EPFO payroll data released earlier this month. read more

The survey comes at a time when the demand for technical courses, especially engineering, has plummeted, owing to a shrinking job market. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to address these challenges. He’s introduced a nationwide consumption tax, an insolvency code for companies and a program to boost domestic manufacturing under his signature Make in India campaign. read more

About 700 million Indians, more than twice the population of the US, are not part of the workforce and their contribution at home is not recorded in the national income. read more

The time has come for this generation to earnestly evaluate vocational education and apprenticeship as serious career paths. It is unfortunate that there seems to be a stigma attached to this line of learning; that of lack of dignity of labour. read more