Tag: employability

Employability: The importance of staying relevant

Industry expertise needs to be roped in into academia for better quality education.

November 27, 2018

Employability – a growing concern for students pursuing education in India

India has estimated unemployment at 18.6 million for 2018 in comparison to 18.3 million in the previous year.

November 1, 2018

For better employability

The year 2017 has been one of the most defining years for the retail sector in many ways. It was the year where companies managed to emerge out of demonetisation, with different degrees of success, and then from the implementation of goods and services tax. Consumers have well managed to balance the growth of e-commerce …

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February 2, 2018

Employability solution

Future Forward Skills Mission, anchored by Tata Trusts, has been launched and is inviting applications for its fund. The mission aims to catalyse market-based employability solutions for India’s young workforce and make them future-ready. The mission aims to fund four to six organisations over 18 months and provide grant awards worth Rs 2.5 crore focusing …

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January 9, 2018

Exchange of ideas can change the world

In the words of Martin Luther King Jr: "If we are to have peace on earth…our loyalties have to transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." To achieve this, a certain skill set has to be honed ~ 'power skills' as they are right- …

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May 1, 2017

India needs employability, not employment: Jitendra Singh

Advocating social entrepreneurship as a means to bring about positive social changes, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said India needs employability and not employment because no country in the world can provide jobs to all. “What India today requires is employability not employment. It is wrong to say that the government is not providing …

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December 15, 2016