Graduates In India

Changing profile of MLAs: Businessperson, graduate, and postgraduate

Legislative Assemblies across India are ageing. More MLAs are identifying themselves as businesspersons, and their education levels are rising, too. Women representation, however, remains low

Campus hiring soars as GCCs seek freshers skilled in data science and AI

Companies like Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Novartis, Epsilon, and EQ India are actively hiring from engineering colleges, business schools, and general degree institutions in India

GPAT 2024: Result declared at natboard.edu.in, view steps to check

The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has announced the GPAT 2024 results on their official website at natboard.edu.in. Alongside, it has also declared the final answer key

SAMS Odisha 2024: Round 1 seat allotment result out at samsodisha.gov.in

The Higher Education Department of Odisha has announced the first round of seat allotment results for SAMS Odisha +3 Admissions 2024 on the official website at www.samsodisha.gov.in

NEET UG 2024: NTA reopens registration link till tomorrow, check link here

The NTA has reopened the registration window till tomorrow for NEET UG 2024. Interested candidates can apply through the official website, exams.nta.ac.in/NEET

Report: 36% IIT Bombay graduates yet to get placed in 2024

CUET UG 2024 application deadline extended till March 31, check details

CUET UG 2024: The CUET application deadline has been extended till March 31. There is no change in the examination schedule and it will be conducted from May 15 to 31, 2024

Unemployment among graduates declines to 13.4% between July 2022, June 2023

Unemployment rate among graduates in a the age group of 15 years and above has declined to 13.4 per cent in 2022-23 from 14.9 per cent in year ago, according to a government survey. As per the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), conducted by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, the lowest unemployment rate among graduates aged 15 years and above witnessed in Chandigarh at 5.6 per cent, which was followed by Delhi with 5.7 per cent during 2022-23. The data showed the highest unemployment in Andaman & Nicobar Island at 33 per cent, followed by Ladakh at 26.5 per cent and Andhra Pradesh at 24 per cent. Among larger states, the unemployment rate was high in Rajasthan at 23.1 per cent and in Odisha at 21.9 per cent. Joblessness or unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of unemployed persons in the labour force. Considering the importance of the availability of labour force data at more frequent time intervals, the NSSO launched the Periodic Labour .

As firms go on hiring freeze, freshers looking for jobs hit record-high

As many as 2.6 million freshers were actively looking for job opportunities in the last 30 days

Amid dull job market, tech graduates enlist in boot camps to boost skills

The demand for boot camps in firms like Upgrad, Coding Ninjas, Scaler, Great Learning, and Newton School has risen by 2-3 times in the last 6-12 months

Employment jumped post-Covid but 2 in 5 young graduates still have no jobs

The workforce participation rate of females has improved in the last five years, especially in rural areas. But this is not due to the rise in the number of jobs but self-employment

J&K UG Admissions 2023: Registration for undergraduate courses ends today

The last date for admission in Jammu and Kashmir to Undergraduate Programmes for first Semester of B.A/B.Sc/B.Com/BBA and different courses is today i.e. 11th August 2023

78% parents in rural India want their daughters to be at least graduate

At least 78 per cent parents in rural India aspire to educate their daughters till graduation and beyond, according to a survey report. The "State of Elementary Education in Rural India-2022" report, based on the survey of 6,229 rural households from across 20 states, was released by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan here on Tuesday evening. "Analyzing the gender distribution of the children, the findings indicate that parents exhibit a similar inclination for both their female and male children to pursue advanced education, including technical degrees, graduation, and postgraduation degrees. Parents of 82 per cent of boys and 78 per cent of girls want to educate their children to graduation and above," it said. The survey revealed, out of the total dropped-out children, around one-fourth of male children discontinued their education during primary schooling. "Comparatively, the dropout rate at that stage was higher for female children, reaching 35 per cent. A higher ...

Only 45% of India's graduate jobseekers are employable, says study

The study suggests that finding candidates with high employability in non-technical skills is easier than finding candidates with high job readiness for technical skills

Five Indian students make it to Global Student Prize 2023 shortlist

Five students studying in India have made it to the top 50 shortlist for the USD 100,000 Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2023, selected from 3,851 applications from across 122 countries. The annual award goes to one exceptional student who has made a real impact on learning, the lives of their peers and on society beyond. In the running from India this year will be: Namya Joshi, a 16-year-old student at Sat Paul Mittal School, Ludhiana, Punjab; Vinisha Umashankar, a 16-year-old student at SKP Vanitha International School, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu; Gladson Vaghela, a 25-year-old medical student at Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society Medical College, Gandhinagar, Gujarat; Padmaksh Khandelwal, a 17-year-old computer science student at Sir Padampat Singhania School, Kota, Rajasthan; and Ravinder Bishnoi, a 20-year-old information technology student at Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran, Mohali, Punjab. Chegg not only celebrates your achievements but also the endless ...

WB govt to take a call on 4-year UG course next week: Education minister

Amid concerns among teachers and students over the delay in the proposed launch of the 4-year honours course at the undergraduate level in state-run and aided higher educational institutions, Education Minister Bratya Basu said the government will take the final call on the matter next week. Basu told this to reporters on Friday on the sidelines of an event. "I will meet the chief minister next week to hold detailed talks on the issue (4-year UG course). We will come up with the notice afterwards" he told reporters when asked about the introduction of four-year UG courses in state-run and aided higher educational institutions. Meanwhile, some college authorities and teacher associations have expressed concern over the delay in official notice changing the period of honours studies in the state from three to four years. Principal of government-run Lady Brabourne College, Siuli Sarkar told PTI, "We had participated in various workshops on New Education Policy till mid-May. We had eve

Osmania University Results 2023: Check complete result at osmania.ac.in

The online B.Sc., B.Com., BBA and BA course results have been made available by Osmania University today

UCEED 2023 round 1 seat allotment result today; complete detail here

The results of the UCEED 2023 round 1 seat allotment will be posted today on the official website. Within the allotted time, candidates can finish the admission procedure based on the allotment proces

Employability gap in graduates: Nasscom asks education system to do more

The USD 245-billion Indian technology industry on Wednesday flagged the "employability gap" in engineering graduates, saying that the education system is not focusing on building strong foundational and professional skills. Debjani Ghosh, the president of the technology industry lobby Nasscom, told reporters that the gap in skillsets forces IT companies to spend more time in training the freshers before they are deployed, which results in significant costs. Over the last two decades, Indian IT companies have been rendering services for the world courtesy of cost arbitrage and the number of engineering graduates which the country puts out into the market every year. But the changing nature of requirements seems to have led to disappointments. Ghosh said that today's engineers are not working in backoffice any more, but sitting with the customers as the industry shifts from service provider to digital transformation partner. our current educational system does not focus on building g

Over 10,000 graduates in 2022, highest CTC hike rose to 567%: upGrad

The data further revealed that Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai, in that order, topped the recruiting charts while Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai were amongst the next popular hiring locations