"The top three sectors that are intending to hire freshers are information technology, telecommunications, and e-commerce and technology startups."
"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Modi government's eighth Budget on February 1. Track this blog to know how the education sector reacted to this year's Budget. Stay tuned for updates."
"The announcement to set up a DESH-Stack online skilling platform in the country and the Budget’s overall focus on skilling has drawn appreciation from the industry as stakeholders have been highlighting the widening skill gap in the job market. "
"Budget 2022 has been presented in the Parliament on Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Highlights for education sectors and expert opinions can be checked here."
"Industry experts have had conflicting reactions to Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman's presentation of the Union budget on Tuesday. While the health, digital, and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sectors have appreciated the budget, the travel industry and real estate sector are left disappointed."
"Talent leaders focus on building, nurturing soft skills and digital skills in the new year."
"Titled 'The current learning landscape: Learner's perspective' the research reveals that only 29% of the college-going students prefer the traditional degree curriculum that we have in our country."
"The survey, released on Wednesday, indicated that companies are keen to dedicate funds towards projects that can create maximum impact and companies are directing majority of their funds towards imparting employability skills to school or college dropouts (22.8 per cent), women (20.4 per cent), and people with disabilities (18 per cent)."
"A significant percentage of companies in India plan to increase their corporate social responsibility funding towards skilling and education in 2022, says a TeamLease EdTech survey."
"The year 2021 was tumultuous due to the spread of covid. But the devastation wreaked by the pandemic had very little repercussions on the financial markets. The large-cap indices have risen about 20% during the year, while mid and small-cap stocks rose even more."
"Faster implementation of reforms in 2022 will enable learning ecosystem to improve course completion rates by 25%, reduce dropout rates by 20%: Shantanu Rooj, TeamLease EdTech"
"Blame it on the pandemic or the compounding effect of this year's other headline-rattling trends: unfilled jobs are still a bleeding wound. Even before the pandemic started, businesses were already struggling to hire tech talent; the COVID-19 pandemic made the situation considerably worse by creating massive demand for digitalisation of businesses with moving the delivery of products and services to a digital format."
"BENGALURU: With the new National Education Policy (NEP) in place, skill training in colleges has picked up pace like never before, say industry experts. What was once popular among engineering colleges and tier-1 cities has now percolated to all institutions, irrespective of stream or place. "
December 18, 2021
"As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her team start work on the Union 2022, there's some good news about the economy. After dipping to a multi-year low, the GDP growth rate has bounced back. The Indian economy grew 8.4% in the July-September quarter. According to a survey of analysts, India's economy is likely to grow at 9.4% this year."
"Retail players, particularly e-commerce, are hunting for fresh talent. As retailers adapt to the pandemic-induced changes in the industry, they are finding a flexible young talent base handy."