CLAT 2017 Exam (Common Law Admissions Test), an all India entrance examination conducted online by Chanakya National Law University, Patna for admissions to under-graduate and post graduate degree programmes (LL.B & LL.M) on Sunday, May 14, 2017. The paper was considered to be of moderate difficulty. However, candidates pointed out that the paper was more […]
Campus Placements for country’s premium engineering institutes falls down for this 2016-17 academic year compare to last year placements records. One third of the IITians graduating this academic year either wasn’t found suitable for the job offer in campus placement or didn’t meet their expected job. The number of placement offers come down to 66%, even the number of […]
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to share online the scores of candidates taking competitive exams for jobs in the bureaucracy, police, engineering and others under its umbrella. This is part of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to boost hiring by the private sector on the basis of the UPSC Exam Score. Annually, UPSC […]
The IIT council, the top decision making and governing body of the country’s premier engineering colleges IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), has cleared a proposal for one year executive MTech course designed for professionals short of time to do a full two-year term. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Human Resource Development minister […]
A Stanford University initiative Stanford Seed, led by the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), announced its expansion to India. The institute aims to build upon the success it has achieved since its inception in 2011. The Seed Transformation Program through which faculty, staff and coaches have trained more than 500 business leaders with the goal […]
India’s IT service companies are in the process of laying off employees on a massive scale. This scale of layoffs wasn’t seen since the 2008-10 downturn in IT sector. The move has come after the growth in India’s $150 billion IT industry has slowed down more than anticipated and companies move towards hiring more in the […]
Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur recently launched a new program “PG Certificate in Applied Educational Leadership and Management” in collaboration with Fordham University, USA for school teachers currently in or moving into leadership roles. It is a specialized one year long online program with 4 modules and 15 courses aims to improve the effectiveness of the teaching […]
Newer IIMs have been struggling to attract companies to recruit students even as placement season was fairly smooth in the older institutes. Alarmed by poor placements at the new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has asked them to submit placement details about recruitment and salaries for the 2015-2017 batches. Newer […]
As interest of the students for the course varies and the employment, placement opportunities are limited for some courses, some of the premier technology institutes of country are tweaking the number of students in some of those courses. They are introducing new or interdisciplinary programmes in keeping with a government directive to plan their courses […]
The Union Cabinet has considered renewal of the MoU between ICAI and HCT of UAE to work together in strengthening the Accounting, Financial and Audit knowledge base within UAE. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved renewal of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) […]
The banking industry which was among the big job creators along with the information technology industry is at an inflection point where technology is enhancing efficiency at a faster pace than what humans could do. Traditional jobs like passbook updating, cash deposit, verification of know-your-customer details, salary uploads are also going digital increasing job redundancies. The Indian banking […]
With a recent report suggesting that as much as 95% of engineering graduates from Asia’s third-largest economy are unfit for programming jobs, there’s been an on-and-off debate around employability of India’s Engineers , an issue that rears its head every now and then. This year, Indian techies are having a tough year, accused for stealing […]