Placement officers and students at other IITs including those in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kharagpur and Guwahat… Read More NEW DELHI | MUMBAI: Pre-placement offersto students at theIndian Institutes of Technologyhave scaled a record high this year, indicating a bumper recruitment season ahead amid growing inclination among leading employers to hire through the tried-and-tested internship route. […]

KOLKATA: IIT-Kharagpur’s stellar run at the annual placements continues this year with the highest salary offered sailing past Rs 1.5 crore, according to insiders, even though the institute officially did not reveal the amount in keeping with its privacy policy. Altogether, eight candidates had bagged attractive international offers -including the blockbuster one by an MNC […]

MUMBAI: One leg of an IITian is in India, the other in Air India, went a popular wisecrack in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Every year hundreds of freshly minted engineers from these highly rated institutes would fly westward. This time, the template followed by several graduating classes was disrupted as many turned down […]

Less than 20 per cent of graduate engineers in Gujarat get jobs. In certain branches like civil engineering, the campus placement figure is abysmally low at 5%. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) data for 2015-16 reveals that out of 11,190 students who passed computer science only 3,407 got placed. For the same year, […]

The study noted that while more than 60% candidates cannot even write code that compiles, only 1.4% can wri… Read More NEW DELHI: Talent shortage is acute in the IT and data science ecosystem in India with a survey claiming that 95% of engineers in the country are not fit to take up software development […]

Murthy feels business leaders should ask themselves a few questions before making major decisions For Narayana Murthy, capitalism must be compassionate. The Infosys co-founder recently questioned the decision of the IT company’s board to pay hefty salaries to its C-suite members. He also raised concerns about the governance practices of the company. This is expected […]

HYDERABAD: Engineering graduates in the city fall far behind their counterparts from New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata when it comes to programming skills. This startling revelation has come to the fore through a study conducted across 500 colleges in the country. As many as 36,000 engineering students from IT-related branches participated […]

The slide in recruitment from what are considered premier technical institutes reflects the possible impact of the economic downturn in India as also globally One of every three IITians graduating this year either didn’t find a suitable job or wasn’t found suitable for a job through campus placement, official data show, pointing to shrinking employment […]

Children at my grammar school are tutored intensively from the 11-plus to GCSE. It devalues our teaching, skews the playing field and denies them a childhood ‘As my year 7s run off at the end of the day, I am aware that some of them will be spending another couple of hours in tuition centres […]