What India needs: MBA or M Tech?

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January 23, 2019

M Tech and MBA, both the paths seem to be equally promising, but, the current trend shows that youth is more inclined towards the persuasion of MBA rather than M Tech, due to attractive salaries its reach to wider horizons. Therefore, a big question emerges in every youth’s minds that after completing graduation whether to be an engineer or a business administrator.

M Tech degree gives you an opportunity to multiply your knowledge or one can say to dig deeper in a particular stream and helps you to hold more command in the same. On the other hand, pursuing MBA is considered as a deviation in the career for a tech graduate but the fact is that acquiring an MBA degree helps to learn newer ways to generate economic perspective for the people.

It simply means to be into a “real game” together with vast career options. Despite opening new panorama and creating things through technical skills, there’s worrying need for technically qualified people with M Tech due to the meagerness that currently exist in the country especially in the research and development industry in the government as well as in the private sectors.

Also Read: Is MBA still a sought after course?

At Youth4work .com platform, we have seen that the percentage of getting jobs for M Tech degrees holder is 15 percent whereas that of for an MBA degree holder is 41 percent. Both the courses have contrasting working procedure, but as the MBA folks are better in communication, so this makes them better paid.

Many established and branded companies reach IIT and IIM to hire the most talented and skilled professionals. Although, both the premium institutes have different line of flow and prepares elite workforce. But, this is a restriction of many talented and skilled youth towards the chances of getting hired in a good company. Also, not all the postgraduates from such colleges get their dream jobs.

At Youth4work, we believe that the young people from all the courses and across India should be given
equal opportunities to demonstrate their skills and this is one good way to improve employability in India. Good decisions and good work come from good experience. After all, there is no substitute for experience.

“The world has to move from degree-based hiring through IITs or IIMs to skill-based recruitments. And that is a big change to be done on the individual level. Through Youth4work, we are empowering youth from every college or university to compete with each other at a global level. We are not just catering to recruiters or a job-seekers, but also help take the nation ahead by improving their skills which they lack or simply add new ones to enhance their market value,” says Rachit Jain, CEO of Youth4work.

“Most importantly it is essential that each graduate today is industry-ready and this can be done by improving their employability through competitive spirit, adding self-paced courses that create an edge, and yes creating more awareness of self assessment through social media,” Jain added.

We can say that M Tech and MBA both seem equally fair. One is all required to have a good vision and break the old restricting trends just as Youth4work.com believes in providing evenhanded opportunities to the aspiring skilled youth from everywhere. Many young people can be assets for our nation and the big question which confuses all that ‘Whether to be or not to be an Engineer’, or to go for M Tech or MBA will not bother much then. Of course, without an ultimate goal in mind it’s difficult to say which one is better, so follow your dreams.

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu presents AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma and AICTE-SAGY Initiative awards

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January 22, 2019

Vice President presents AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma and AICTE-SAGY Initiative awards

“Development of rural areas should not erode their unique identities but must fortify their spirits. The facilities in villages must resemble those of a city but the soul and the values of Indian villages, must be preserved,” the Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday.

Naidu was addressing a ceremony organised by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). During the Ceremony, AICTE-ECI-ISTE Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards and AICTE- SAGY Initiative awards were presented to respective winners.

During his address, Naidu said, “The Awards would challenge young students to come up with novel ideas that have great potential to impact life in villages through technological interventions at the grass root level.”

Quoting Mahatma Gandhi’s statement “the future of India lies in its villages”, the Vice President said that the development of villages is an essential precondition to development of the nation.

He congratulated the All India Council for Technical Education’s endeavour to boost the efforts of rural development in association with the Engineering Council of India (ECI) and the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).

In a suggestion to develop a new curricula under which students will spend time in rural areas, Naidu said that it will lead students to spend time in rural areas, interacting with people and understanding their problems.

During his speech, the Vice President referred India as an inspiration to the world. He said, “Steering itself towards eco-friendly industrialisation, sustainable urbanisation, and inclusion of the rural economy, India has the potential to not only become the world’s fastest growing economy, but also to serve as an inspiration, a model to the world”

Expressing disappointment that our vision for development is still largely urban centric, Naidu lamented that rural India still lagged behind urban India in terms of crucial development indicators.

Naidu said, “One size fits all approach will not ensure development in a vast and diverse country like India. Every village has its own individuality, its own industries and its own developmental needs. Our plans should capture aspirations of the people, leverage their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses.”

Every year AICTE organises the awards aimed to motivate young individuals, inspiring leaders and institutions/organisations to raise their performance in their specific domains leading to significant contribution towards the growth and development of the nation.

Through awards, AICTE, ECI and ISTE recognise and honour innovative work of the students displaying exceptional skills by providing the innovative solution on the given theme.

JEE Main course by Gradeup to boost aspirants’ scores

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January 22, 2019

Gradeup has launched Rankup JEE: A 70-Day Score Booster course. It is a comprehensive course designed to improve the performance of students in JEE Main April exam.

From this year onwards, students will get two attempts for JEE Main in January and again in April. The best score out of the two exams will be considered as the final one.

Gradeup has created a course that focuses on intensive preparation over the 70-day interval between the 2 attempts, thereby improving scores and boosting the final rank attained by aspirants. The integrated course created by Gradeup offers collaborative preparation, wherein students learn from their experiences in January and score better in JEE Main 2019 to be conducted in April.

Based on engagement and personalised learning, the programme focuses on activities like live courses, mock tests, previous years’ papers and open discussions which cover all the concepts in an interesting, easy-to-retain manner. The course has been designed by industry veterans from Kota and Delhi who have extensive experience in coaching JEE aspirants and helping them attain desired results. According to Gradeup, this course can boost a student’s overall result by 50-70 marks.

Explaining about the features of the new course, Shobhit Bhatnagar, Co-founder, Gradeup said, “We are excited to roll out this dedicated course for JEE aspirants looking to get a higher rank in their second attempt. This is a course that can benefit thousands of students and help them accelerate the growth trajectory of their career through a higher rank.”

“The JEE Main is a challenging exam and each moment of preparation is crucial. Within this course we will chart out every day and every hour of preparation time, and allow students to efficiently streamline these 70 days that can change their lives,” he added.

Rankup JEE is a part of Gradeup’s new ‘Classroom’ category through which it offers comprehensive classroom style preparation courses. Through this approach, it offers a highly comprehensive learning experience to aspirants. The method encompasses preparation through interactive live videos that are conducted by expert teachers with years of experience. It also includes especially designed day-wise study plans that include quizzes, mock tests and more. This method simplifies preparation and facilitates easy resolution of doubts.

JNU MBA admission process begins today

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January 21, 2019

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has started enrolments in its Master of Business Administration (MBA) courses under newly established Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship for 2019-20.

Last date to apply online for admission to MBA course in JNU is March 1. Viva/interview for shortlisted candidates will be conducted on April 15, 16 and 18. Final results will be declared on April 26.

The newly setup school at JNU will offer a two-year MBA programme and admission will to it be done on the basis of candidates’ scores in Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted in 2018.

As the first step of admissions, students have to first apply online on the JNU website and provide their CAT registration number.

“JNU will use CAT scores for short listing/selecting candidates for the MBA programme. IIMs have no role either in the selection process or in conducting of the programme. The aspirants who qualify based on their CAT score will be shortlisted and then called for an interview,” said the university.

The first batch of the MBA course in JNU will offer 50 seats. The university will give 70 percent weightage to the CAT score and 30 percent weightage will be given to the marks obtained in the interviews. The university will follow the reservation policy as per the Central government rules.

“Since MBA is a professional course, no additional deprivation points [as it may be the case in some other JNU courses will be taken into consideration for admission,” said the university.

JEE Main April registration to begin from February 8

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January 21, 2019

The online application process for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2019 to be conducted from April 6 to 20, 2019, will start from February 8, 2019.

The last date to apply for JEE Main 2019 will be March 7, 2019. The candidates aspiring for the exam can visit the official website: jeemain.nic.in for registration.

JEE Main 2019 Results are scheduled to be declared on April 30, 2019. The admit cards for JEE Main will be available to download from March 18, 2019. Candidates are required to follow below steps for registration.

JEE Main II registration: Steps to apply online

Step 1: Visit the official website: jeemain.nic.in

Step 2: Click on Online Application Process Link

Step 3: Submit all the necessary details as required

Step 4: Click on Submit

Step 5: After Submitting the JEE Main 2019 Application, download it, and take a print out for further reference

JEE Main is conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes (B Tech) in NITs, IIITs and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions. JEE Main also conducted as the preliminary examination for JEE Advanced – Entrance Exam conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes (B Tech) in IITs.

MindZu app for mathematics learning among class 9th students

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January 19, 2019

Angaza Ltd, a Capetown based Edu-tech Company has launched a smartphone app – MindZu to help 9th grade students in learning Mathematics.

The app is exclusively designed to deliver a personalised mathematics learning experience for smartphone users. The app will have animated lessons, each with layers of intzeractive exercises and motivating game missions, which will make learning more engaging and effective.

Designed to promote self-study amongst users, the MindZu experience goes much beyond conventional online learning. Instead of the usual talking-head teacher videos, learning is enabled via a virtual world of dynamic characters and gamified challenges.

To save a friend from the Army of Boredom, the learner must go on a journey through MindZu landscapes, solving math challenges to progress and succeed. The content covers entire curriculum, and the underlying pedagogy is extremely effective.

Commenting on the launch of MindZu, Godfrey Parkin, CEO, Angaza, said, “Online education offered by most edu-tech platforms in India are usually page-to-page digitisation of existing textbooks, and are often too expensive for most families. Angaza’s goal is to make a superb learning experience universally affordable. We launched the MindZu app with 9th grade mathematics because, at this stage, the subject becomes difficult to understand for the Indian students following the CBSE curriculum.”

“Without the contextual knowledge needed to learn advanced mathematical concepts, many learners start to lose interest in it. This is where potential future engineers and scientists choose an alternate career path, and learners with an interest in the arts turn away from an opportunity to add new dimensions to their creativity. An intervention that makes maths more fun and engaging at this stage could make all the difference to young learners,” added Parkin.

MindZu is the culmination of years of work by a global team of 25 educational writers, game developers, instructional designers, animators, and user experience experts hailing from Italy, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Ireland, and India.

The Jump Start: Nurturing Global Competence among Youth

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January 18, 2019

Cutting-edge training and skill development techniques of The Jump Start open avenues for multiplying the employability opportunities for the graduate talent, says Mahesh Iyer, Co-founder & Curator The Jump Start, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

What is the genesis behind the company? Please describe briefly about the solutions developed by the organisation to help education institutes for easy implementation of processes?

The Jump Start is a skill formation and an employability enrichment venture curated by industry professionals who possess extensive experience in the field of human capital formation through talent identification and development, academia affiliations, training and consulting.

Our Academia Solutions:

Industry Outreach Programme – Our wide network of industry connects and affiliations guarantee a successful outreach programme for academia and help them improve their students’ job placement scenarios.
Faculty Development Programme – The Faculty Development Programmes are primarily on life skills and future of education leading to effective classroom management impacting Faculty Satisfaction Level (FSAT).
Teachers Capability Building Program – Our Teachers Capability Building Programme focuses on the 21st century teaching philosophy with emphasis on Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical Thinking.
Student Assistance Program (SAP): The aim of SAP is to provide continual and an ongoing consultation services to students to overcome barriers of fear, rejection, uncertainty about their career goals, disengaged situations, and others.
Culture Assessment and Value Integration (CAVI©) : The Jump Start’s CAVI © model helps institutions to develop cultures involving behavioural change, sentiment analysis, culture surveys, focus groups and more.

How your solution help meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving educational landscape and promoting effective learning among students?

The workforce inadequacy is a blatant phenomenon yet to be manifested. According to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), India currently faces a severe shortage of well- trained, skilled workers leading to gap in the demand and supply. It is further estimated that only 2.3 percent of workforce in India has undergone formal skill training as compared to other developed countries. A large section of the educated workforce has little or no job skills, making them largely unemployable.

The Jump Start team is committed to improve the employability quotient in the society by inducing a skill and value-based learning methodology, which is industry recognized and are aligned to the National Occupational Standards prescribed by the MSDE. We believe that the inclusion of Tier 3 and 4 graduate talent and the unemployed workforce to the mainstream will address a larger socio- economic challenge of our country.

We work as a conduit between academia and the industry, thus, assist institutions to improve their brand equity by placing the graduate talent for the right job by adoption of our skill formation programs.

Industrial Revolution 4.0 is much talked about term nowadays, how important is the skill and vocational training among the students for a better future ahead?

Mismatch between industry needs and academia output is yet unrequited. Research reveals that the graduates lack the fundamental skills required by businesses. Further, formal training of employees in basic business frameworks and concepts is relatively missing. It is imperative that we demystify the gap. The missing threads are confidence building, application of concept into practice and the efforts from the institutes to fulfill the requisites for helping students to sustain in this dynamic and volatile job market.

We recommend a three-pronged approach to fill this vacuum, namely:

- Ontime skill assessment of students
  - Adoption of learning interventions at academia level
  - Soft skills
  - Experiential learning
  - Image Enhancement Programs
  - Employability Enrichment Programs

Induce industry experts to help build curriculum

How can collaboration with institutes across the world be helpful in implementing innovative ideas to impart skill and vocational training at par with the global standards?

The world’s largest stock of Scientists, Engineers and Management Graduates arein India, however, the helm to derive an economic benefit is the need.

It is increasingly evident for students to develop global competence as we see a strong global congruence. A global education may not be confined to just the research scholars, economist and other professions, rather, global education requires an in-depth learning and adoption of aspects associated with health and safety education, socio and economic issues worldwide, diversity and inclusion factors, etc.

One of the biggest game-changers in the global education standards will be to enhance the teaching staff capability in India. And to achieve this mission, it is prudent that the teaching staff must adopt the global education standards and continuously upskill themselves to make a difference in the education ecosystem.

Programs such as Faculty Development, Teacher Capability Building, and Student-Teachers Exchange Programs are some of the quick wins for the Indian education system to make a difference in the global education standards. Such programs will indeed help the students and teachers to overcome the paranoia of rejection in the global platform.

NEET 2019 Application Form corrections available till January 31

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January 17, 2019

National Testing Agency (NTA) has made available the correction National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2019 on January 15.

Candidates aspiring for the NEET 2019 are allowed to rectify their incorrect details filled in the application form till January 31.

Candidates are required to follow below steps to correct the filled in details in NEET 2019 Application Form:

Click on the login link for making corrections in Application Form of NEET 2019 is provided below on this page.
After entering application number and password on the page, candidates will be required to click on login button.
After login, click all your details in the NEET UG 2019 application form
Correct the details if required and click on “Save” after that

Candidates must take care while making corrections in NEET 2019 Application Forms as this is the last chance to make corrections in the application form. Aspirants only with correct details will be allowed to appear in NEET 2019.

From this year onwards, NTA will be conducting various entrance exams including JEE Main and NEET. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has established the autonomous testing agency NTA to conduct efficient, transparent and international standard tests across the country.

Barista opens up to promote budding talent

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January 17, 2019

Barista Coffee has launched a new campaign to promote young talent by providing them a place with dedicated clientele and ambience to enable them to showcase their gift.

In this endeavour, they are going to launch a young author Neel Mullick whose book Dark Blossom has been endorsed by Ruskin Bond & Rajdeep Sardesai.

According to Puneet Gulati, CEO, Barista said, “We blend coffee like no one else, we would love to stimulate the minds and not just the taste buds, this is a small effort from our end to give a reliable platform where we would like to engage talent in book writing, magic, music, stand-up comedy and other forms of new age art.”

The pioneers of coffee culture in India who have been treating masses with their urban delights have recently moved into FMCG segment with their Choco-affair range of products and for ongoing winter season they have launched Winter Treats to keep their customers delighted with their new and unique offerings.

“Barista is a place to be for the people with intellectual tangent and I am glad that they are providing me a platform to promote my new book. I will be donating half of my royalties earned from Dark Blossom to IIMPACT, an NGO with the aim of breaking the cycle of illiteracy that plagues young girls from socially and economically impoverished communities” said Neel Mullick, an Author.

“Neel’s commitment to give back in various forms of charity, awards, opportunity to win a trip to Newyork etc had compelled us to have him on board with us to launch the book, which will be given along with the goodie bag in JLF 2019” emphasised Gulati.

Government likely to implement quota across all private higher education institute

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January 16, 2019

Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar has announced that the reservation for SCs, STs, OBCs and economically weaker sections in the general category will be implemented in private higher education institutions across the country from the new academic session.

The Central Government is likely to introduce a Bill in the upcoming Budget session of Parliament to pave the way for reservation in private educational institutions.

Central Government’s institutions have to increase their student strength by almost 25 percent to accommodate the EWS reservation without affecting the current allocation of seats under SC, ST, OBC and General category seats.

“Under the 124th Constitutional amendment, the HRD Ministry has decided that from this year itself the quota for EWS category will be applicable. While implementing this, we will ensure that reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs does not get affected. Hence, there will be more seats,” Javadekar said.

Also Read: Amendment in reservation norms likely to add 10 lakh seats across institutes

Explaining about the income criteria for EWS quota, the HRD minister stated that, “it will be the same as for the OBC creamy layer. In other words, a person whose family has a gross annual income below Rs 8 lakh will be identified as a beneficiary under the new quota. The family includes the person who seeks the benefit of reservation, his/ her parents, siblings below the age of 18 years, his/ her spouse, and children below the age of 18 years”.

According to AICTE chairman Anil Sahasrabuddhe, a majority of its recognised private institutes provide reservation for students as directed by the state they are located in.

“With the exception of Rajasthan and West Bengal, almost all state governments make it mandatory for technical institutes and colleges to provide reservation for SC, ST and OBC students,” Sahasrabuddhe said.

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