Andhra to release jobs calendar on Ugadi festival

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Andhra to release jobs calendar on Ugadi festival

Andhra Pradesh government will release a calendar schedule to fill vacant posts in the education department on Ugadi festival day.

Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh made this announcement on Friday and it comes on the back of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy instructed officials to come out with a calendar recently.

Meanwhile, Suresh said that the college fees would be credited to the accounts of eligible mothers under the Jagananna Vidya Deevena scheme on April 9, benefiting 10 lakh students.

Similarly, the state government is focusing on improving the educational standards in colleges.

“As per the directions of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, educational standards in colleges in the state will be improved and education will be imparted in such a way that students can get jobs,” said the Education Minister.

In the light of the state government clipping the wings of autonomous colleges, Suresh warned them not to indulge in irregularities and said that appropriate action would be taken otherwise.

According to the minister, there are 109 autonomous colleges in the state under various varsities and it was found that quality education was not being imparted in those educational institutions.

“Some autonomous colleges were indulging in irregularities besides getting subsidies from the government discussions are being held with the UGC regarding autonomous colleges,” he said.

Further clarifying, Suresh noted that education is a concurrent subject upon which the state government can also make laws and highlighted that colleges are free to move the Court in this matter.

He said that academic audits would be conducted in autonomous colleges to usher in reforms in the education sector.

Suresh said that autonomous colleges are barred from compiling their own question papers.

Meanwhile, the state government is looking at initiating an apprentice system for degree courses.

He said Reddy gave instruction to lay special focus on developing Andhra University, S.V. University, RJKUT, JNTU – Anantapur, and JNTU – Kakinada.

No exams till Class 8 for govt school students in UP

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No exams till Class 8 for govt school students in UP

For the second consecutive year, examinations up to Class 8 will not be held in Uttar Pradesh government-run schools.

Due to the pandemic conditions, the state government has decided to promote students from Class 8 to the next class without examination. Their assessment will be done on the basis of performance throughout the academic session.

Last year, in 2020, students up to Class 8 were also promoted without examinations, on the basis of internal assessment.

Schools, thereafter, were closed for the next tens due to Covid 19 pandemic.

Studies have been affected for almost the entire academic session and online classes were started in July last year.

Children from economically weaker sections who study in government schools could not take online classes.

Class from 6 to 8 reopened on February 10 and classes from 1 to 5 began on March 1.

Additional Chief Secretary, Education, Renuka Kumar, said, “We are running a 100 day ‘Prerna Gyanotsav’ program for children up to class 8. The students will be assessed on this and promoted to the next class.”

Tech hiring in India above pre-pandemic levels: Indeed

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Tech hiring in India above pre-pandemic levels: Indeed

A study of tech job postings on job site Indeed on Friday showed that hiring in tech roles between April 2020 and January 2021 was consistently above pre-pandemic levels, peaking at 17 per cent in November 2020.

Tech job postings in India were up 13 percent in January 2021 from a year ago, showed the data from Indeed.

Indeed also assessed the fastest growing tech roles in India and companies actively hiring for these roles from 2020-2021.

Hiring for tech roles was primarily driven by IT, IT-enabled Services (ITeS), financial services, e-commerce, and consulting sectors.

“With the pandemic necessitating ‘remote working’ and more technology-based business operations, organizations have had to ramp up their tech hiring to support this transition,” Sashi Kumar, Managing Director, Indeed.com, said in a statement.

“This is reflected in our data, which shows a steady upward shift. We believe that digitization and ‘virtual’ operations will continue to increase in the near future, creating a strong demand for tech-related jobs across sectors.”

The site revealed that top-paying tech roles in India in 2020-2021 are software architect, technical lead, cloud engineer, senior software engineer, and full-stack developer.

The top fastest-rising tech jobs in India include application developer, IT security specialist, salesforce developer, site reliability engineer, and cloud engineer, among others.

Educational institutions to open in B’desh from March 30

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Educational institutions to open in B’desh from March 30

The Bangladeshi government has announced the reopening of all the schools and colleges in the country from March 30.

The country’s Education Minister Dipu Moni made the announcement after a high-level meeting on Saturday night. The minister said school and college students will attend classes in person initially.

Students of junior classes will resume their academic activates in phases later, she added.

Last week Moni announced that universities will reopen on May 24, the Xinhua news reported.

The closure of educational institutions nationwide ordered by the government started on March 17 last year as part of the country’s efforts to halt the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic.

The closure has been extended repeatedly and the latest extension was from February 14 to 28 in a bid to contain the spread of the virus in the current cold weather.

More Indians turn entrepreneurs as job market still bleak

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More Indians turn entrepreneurs as job market still bleak

While the job market still looks bleak in India after a pandemic-hit 2020, the world’s professional network LinkedIn said on Wednesday it has seen a 10 percent growth in members with the title ‘founders’ or ‘co-founder’ on their profiles on the platform.

Entrepreneurship looked up for Indian professionals last year.

“This uptick in new entrepreneurs was particularly strong in the fields of mental healthcare, e-learning, and online media,” according to the latest LinkedIn ‘Workforce Confidence Index’.

“Skills are expected to become the new professional ‘currency’ this year as workers from different generations rely on learning new skills to future-proof their careers, at a time when industries continue to strengthen their remote operations,” said Ashutosh Gupta, India Country Manager, LinkedIn.

“Reimagining employee skills and roles to welcome the post-pandemic ways of working will be crucial to building resilience for companies across sectors,” Gupta added.

Based on the survey responses of 1,752 professionals, findings from January 1-29 revealed that professionals in India are confident about career progress despite growing uncertainties about the job market and financial future in the current environment.

Nearly 80 per cent of professionals are confident about skilling opportunities, while 79 per cent are confident about the strength of their CVs.

However, the survey showed a dip in India’s overall confidence.

The survey attributes this dip in optimism to the workforce’s growing concerns about the status of the pandemic, surmounting expenses, and job availability in the present economic climate.

This professional uncertainty comes right after the year-end holiday season, when India’s hiring rate dropped to 17 percent year-over-year in December 2020, according to the latest edition of LinkedIn’s Labour Market update.

The survey showed that while India remains resilient, professionals from different generations have contrasting reasons to stay confident in these testing times.

While 92 per cent of Gen X and 98 per cent of Baby Boomers say the strength of their work experience and academic qualifications makes them more confident, 86 per cent of millennials state they are more inspired by opportunities to grow their skills and climb the ladder.

Further, 80 per cent of Gen Z professionals said that the likelihood of progressing their careers makes them more confident today, said the survey.

‘Over 58% Indian students use edtech apps for exams preparations’

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‘Over 58% Indian students use edtech apps for exams preparations’

As the yearly examinations are approaching, about 58.9 percent of the Indian students are using edtech platforms for their preparations, a report said on Thursday.

According to an online learning platform Brainly, 20.2 percent, among the students who use edtech platforms, said they are highly dependent edtech platforms for learning.

“Our survey has once again highlighted the value that edtech platforms add to students’ day-to-day education,” Rajesh Bysani, CPO at Brainly, said in a statement.

“A sizable chunk of students not only appreciates the role of edtech platforms but even believes that they have now become an integral part of their academic progression,” Bysani added.

Among the survey participants, which included 9,029 participants, 23 percent claimed that they were taking help from their peers, while 17.5 percent and 15.2 percent also went with the tutors, including coaching experts and parents, respectively.

Around 11 percent claimed that they were proactively using edtech platforms to solve their queries while 33.3 percent of the respondents went with all of the available options.

“We believe that it will be interesting to witness the confluence of such platforms with the regular classes in the near future,” Bersani said.

Indian tech sector grows 2.3%, adds 1.38 lakh jobs in FY21

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Indian tech sector grows 2.3%, adds 1.38 lakh jobs in FY21

Despite the impact of Covid-19, the Indian technology sector rallied round to grow at 2.3 percent year on year in the financial year 2020-21 on the back of rapid acceleration in digital transformation and tech adoption, said a Nasscom report on Monday.

The industry is expected to add over 138,000 net new hires in FY2020-21, taking the total employee base to 4.47 million, according to the IT industry body’s Strategic Review 2021 titled, “New World: The Future is Virtual”.

Indian tech contributed near 8 percent relative share to the national gross domestic product (GDP), with 52 percent relative share in services exports, and 50 percent share in total foreign direct investment (FDI) based on FDI inflows for the period April to September 2020, it added.

Investing in digital continues to rise as an imperative for the industry, with organizations building their capabilities and aligning business models to digital practices up to 28 per cent-30 per cent of the industry revenues was recorded for digital.

The Indian domestic market, driven by hardware led demand continued to show resilience, growing at 3.4 percent in the year.

With an increased focus on innovation, India witnessed more than 115,000 tech patents filed by companies in India in the last five years.

“As we look at 2021, while there are positives on the vaccination front and accelerated digitization across verticals, the technology industry in India is well geared to build on these trends and continue its transformation journey in this re-defined techade,” Debjani Ghosh, President, Nasscom, said in a statement.

The industry witnessed 146 merger and acquisition deals in 2020, 90 percent of which were digitally focused.

Companies saw a significant rise of 80 percent in cloud adoption during the first half of FY2021 versus the second half, said the report.

UP’s ‘Abhyudaya’ scheme of free coaching for competitive exams begins Tuesday

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UP’s ‘Abhyudaya’ scheme of free coaching for competitive exams begins Tuesday

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Monday, launched the ‘Abhyudaya’ scheme that will start free-of-cost coaching centres in the state.

The scheme aims to provide assistance to all such students who want to prepare for various competitive examinations but are unable to do due to their financial status.

Speaking to students who have enrolled for the scheme, chief minister Yogi Adityanath, on Monday, said that during the lockdown, he felt that a Kota-like coaching center should be set up in Uttar Pradesh too.

The chief minister answered the queries of students in the Abhyudaya scheme.

The coaching centres will be first set up at the divisional level and then at the district level in the second phase.

The free-of-cost coaching institutes will start functioning from ‘Basant Panchami’ (February 16), the day of worship to the goddess of learning, Saraswati.

Over 4.84 lakh registrations have already done within four days of its launch.

Under the scheme, the students will be able to attend offline classes and will also get online study material.

The coaching will also involve the provision of direct counseling by senior IAS, IPS, and PCS officers for the aspirants.

In the case of examinations like the National Defence Academy (NDA) and combined Defence Services (CDS), thorough training will be given by principals of Sainik Schools in UP.

There will also be separate classes for NEET and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission into the prestigious IITs. All the lectures and complete study material covering the entire syllabus of various examinations will be made available online.

For better guidance, the state government will also organize doubt solving sessions to help candidates choose the best field for them. It will be accompanied by discussions with experts as guest lecturers.

Yogi Adityanath had announced the launch of the scheme on January 24, which is also the Uttar Pradesh Diwas.

“The coaching centers will give a new platform to youths and motivate them to scale new heights,” he had said.

Punjab brings qualitative improvement in school education: Eco Survey

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Punjab brings qualitative improvement in school education: Eco Survey

Punjab has emerged as a pioneer state in the country for bringing in qualitative improvement in school education in the past three years, the Economic Survey 2020-21 has said.

Punjab has reported the highest attendance rate in the country of 61.6 percent in the age group of 3-5 years i.e. early childhood education.

Punjab School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla said on Thursday that the state is witnessing a revolution in school education.

“With a view to strengthening the foundation of the learning level from the very beginning, our government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is also the first in the country to start pre-primary classes on November 14, 2017. This achievement also marks the continuous efforts of the school teachers as well who have been working hard to transform the government schools,” he said.

Singla said the dedicated efforts have fructified in the form of the overwhelming response from the community as in 2018-19 the enrolment in pre-primary was 2.13 lakh, in 2019-20 it rose to 2.25 lakh and in 2020-21 the government schools have witnessed unprecedented enrolment of around 3.30 lakh students.

He said it indicated the change in the mindset as well as the trust being reposed by people in the reforms in school education in Punjab.

The minister said the pre-primary classrooms in about 13,000 government schools have been equipped with state-of-the-art “Khed Mahals’ (playway classes) so that the students could be taught with a play way method.

3 in 4 Indian professionals to look for new job in 2021: LinkedIn

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3 in 4 Indian professionals to look for new job in 2021: LinkedIn

More than three in four professionals in India will consider changing jobs or actively looking for a new role in the next 12 months, said a new survey by professional networking platform LinkedIn on Wednesday.

But the new “Job Seeker” research also revealed a sense of professional uncertainty and worry among Indian professionals as the job market continues to get more competitive in 2021.

More than one-third of job seekers in India are worried about too many recruitment stages and extensively long application documents, while three in four professionals say they have reservations about networking.

Despite this uncertainty, India remains resilient towards career growth as two in three professionals say they are confident about their future progression while two in five think attending networking events, and investing in online learning will be critical to landing a job in 2021.

The findings are based on 1,016 survey responses.

As job seekers continue to navigate the uncertainties of the job market today, LinkedIn launched the 2021 ‘Jobs on the Rise’ India list to empower professionals with critical insights about the dynamic jobs landscape, especially those who may have lost their jobs during the pandemic.

The top career opportunities as per the Jobs on the Rise 2021 India list include freelance content creators, social media and digital marketing roles, marketing roles, business development, and sales roles, and specialized engineering roles, among others.

Other top opportunities include finance roles, education roles, artificial intelligence roles, e-commerce roles, cybersecurity roles, data science roles, healthcare roles, human resources roles, user experience designer roles, and customer service roles.

“This year’s Jobs on the Rise India list is a reflection of how the work ecosystem and the jobs market rapidly changed in 2020. Digital transformation has continued to drive all industries, and both, tech and non-tech roles have shifted to meet the needs of a new collaborative, remote work culture.

“The list shows us that audience builders and content creators are key to brands, HR continues to be at the heart of all operations, user and customer experience are critical in the new online world of service, and emerging tech, especially ed-tech, continues to boom,” Ruchee Anand, Director, Talent & Learning Solutions, India at LinkedIn, said in a statement.

Top job trends based on the list include brands and individuals engaging audiences online, cybersecurity becoming critical to a digital-first future, Covid-19 accelerating emerging tech solutions, customer experience becoming key, and lifelong learning emerging as key to keeping talent ahead of the curve.

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