Skilling India 2.0: Challenges aplenty

Only 2.3% of the Indian workforce has undergone formal skill training, as compared to 68% in UK and 52% in the US In its new avatar, the initiative of skilling India, will have to achieve much......

Easier access to loans, skill development to boost education

Students will now have easy accessibility to loans for higher studies. Budget Provisions   For companies, for financial year 2015-2016, additional surcharge called the “Education......

Job gloom envelops corporate India

The troubles of 2013 are the second slowdown phase in the past five years. For P Ravikumar (name changed), the large office floor in the media house he worked for ‘looked like a post office......

Education stocks rally 12% in late morning trade

Shares of companies related to education sector surged as much as 12 per cent on Thursday after Finance Minister P Chidambaram allocated Rs 65,867 crore (Rs 658.67 billion) to the HRD Ministry and......