Unlocking Career Success: How universities and corporations are bridging the skills gap for their learners

Employability of university graduates is a crisis for both students and businesses. In India, only 20% of engineering graduates, one of the most in-demand specialties, are considered job ready. In the Asia-Pacific region, less than half of employers consider graduates employable—even though 75% of institutions report their students ready to join the workforce.

Featuring:

• Anant Agarwal
  edX Founder and CEO and MIT Professor
• C. P. Gurnani
  Tech Mahindra, CEO
• Deepak B. Phatak
  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Professor (Ret)
  
  

The program will highlight:

• The emerging and must-have skills that students demand and companies require
• How universities can leverage new models in teaching and learning to give graduates an advantage as they pursue their careers
• Real world examples of higher education and corporate innovator efforts to develop the workforce of tomorrow 

Date: 17 November

Time: 7:00 AM (EST); 12:00 PM (GMT); 5:30 PM (India)

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