Everybody has things that they want to have or achieve, a wishlist of sorts. For educators, it includes ensuring student success and, consequently, driving institutional success. For employers, it is getting the right talent to fulfill their organizational needs. And for students, it is getting a job they are perfectly qualified for and fully…
The increasing significance of university career development teams is a clear indicator of the evolving role of educational institutions and their increasing obligations towards students. Universities, whose responsibilities, until a few years ago, focused on imparting the prescribed skills to students and granting them credentials upon graduation, are now increasingly being expected to assure…
How do you decide, as an educator, if your students are job-ready? Because giving your students a graduation certificate doesn’t necessarily make them job-ready. Making students job-ready starts way before their graduation. In fact, the process starts even before a student attends his first lecture. You make (or don’t make ) your students job-ready when…
Although the United States sees the largest enrolment of students in higher education, only around half of these students graduate within six years of joining. A considerable number of enrolled students drop out before graduation, which not only harms the students’ prospects in life but also harms the institutions’ reputation and financial health. Cases of…