by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Government Jobs, News, Politics, Private Jobs, Startup Basics
Gandhinagar : Universities should give top priority to preparing students for employability, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Sunday, lauding Gujarat University for helping many new entrepreneurs through its programmes.
Addressing the varsity’s 66th convocation, he said: “Gujarat University is supporting many new entrepreneurs through its Start-up and Entrepreneurship Council.
“The creation of the Council of Skill Development is also a welcome step towards empowering students. Today’s universities should give top priority to preparing their students for employability, and for self-employment and entrepreneurship.”
The President said that there are many good institutions in Ahmedabad that promote a start-up culture.
Also noting that recently, the Prime Ministers of India and Israel inaugurated the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology – or iCreate – in Ahmedabad, he said that this will provide world-class facilities to young Indian entrepreneurs and urged students of Gujarat University to take advantage of them.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Reports
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar
New Delhi : The HRD Ministry om Monday released the National Achievement Survey report conducted in November last to assess the level of learning of students of Classes 3, 5 and 8.
The survey was conducted on 2.2 million students from 110,000 schools across India.
Speaking at the report launch, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said the survey results will be used to devise educational plans for school students at all levels.
“The inferences will be used to design classroom interventions meant for all schools in various districts. The findings will help understand the efficiency of the education system.
“The survey results will help guide the education policy, in planning and implementation at the national, state, district and classroom levels for improving learning in children and bringing about qualitative improvements,” Javadekar said.
Emphasising the role of technology in education, he said the government will try to install digital blackboards in all schools in the next five years.
The survey data can be accessed on the MHRD website.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Private Jobs
IIT Kharagpur
Kolkata : Offers were made to as many as 1,200 students at the end of phase one of the 2017-18 placement season at IIT Kharagpur — a 15 per cent jump from last year, a statement from the institute said on Thursday.
This placement season started with enrolment of 2,054 students which is the maximum at an individual Indian Institute of Technology.
“This is due to the wide variety of disciplines that are offered by IIT Kharagpur. The 1,200 offers are due to 200 companies that visited during the phase 1,” the statement said.
In a new trend this year, PSUs started visiting the campus during November, which is much before the actual placement session started.
The placements for Undergraduate (UG) students touched the 75 per cent mark which is an improvement of 12 per cent while the placements for Postgraduate (PG) students is at 38 per cent showing an improvement of 14 per cent compared to last year. B.Arch saw a jump of 20 per cent this year compared to the last.
“This year the Career Development Centre (CDC) has initiated a placement drive for PhDs graduating/graduated within two months and this gave a fruitful outcome with 26 PhDs getting placed across reputed teaching and research institutions,” the release added.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Startup Basics, Your Business Plan
New Delhi : Microsoft has supported over 4,000 Indian start-ups, skill training for 30,000 youth and helped train 26,000 teachers while working with several state governments and not-for-profit organisations between April 2016 and March 2017 in India, a new report said on Friday.
In its 2017 India Citizenship Report, Microsoft India said it recognises that India’s entrepreneurial landscape would aid robust economic growth in the coming years and was committed to contributing to the Indian start-up growth story.
The company supported and guided the start-ups with programmes like BizSpark, Microsoft Accelerator, among others.
BizSpark, a Microsoft flagship initiative, is aimed at supporting early stage start-ups. More than 100 Indian start-ups were selected under the BizSpark Plus programme in 2016-17 which helped them grow their customer base.
Microsoft Accelerator empowered start-ups on their journey to build great companies, working with market-ready start-ups and provide the tools, resources, connections, knowledge and expertise that they need to become successful companies.
The Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Programme served to accelerate the adoption of services such as Microsoft Azure and transform business and governance in a mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Under Project Shiksha, Microsoft India trained over 8,124 teachers in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, impacting 361,000 students.
Under Project Saksham, Microsoft has conducted trainings for over 3,307 educators across 123 universities. These faculty members have, in turn, trained 1,126 of their peers. In 2016-17, 661 teachers across 21 universities were trained.
As part of the Microsoft Educator Community programme, the Maharashtra government adopted the QR Coded textbook idea catalysed by a Microsoft India Educator Rajintsinh Disale, which allows teachers to receive additional resources and information related to a textbook by simply scanning a QR code.
In line with government’s Skill India vision, the company brought Predictive Analysis and Machine Learning technologies to education, healthcare and agriculture in partnership with several state governments.
The company’s integrated cloud-first, mobile-first solutions have improved processes, productivity and mobility, in order to accelerate India’s digital transformation.
Microsoft Philanthropies has invested over $10 million in cash and technology to transform the way non-profits deliver impact in India, offering educational opportunities to the next generation.
—IANS
