Talent2Success: Poising Industry & Academia through State-of-the-Art Technologies

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Talent2Success: Poising Industry & Academia through State-of-the-Art Technologies

One of the protagonists in the movie - 3 Idiots, Farhan Qureshi while pursuing his engineering degree reveals, “I am scared that my father will not allow me to be a photographer”. The Bollywood movie, released in 2009, was a stinging satire on India’s higher education system and the convictions of the parents of our country about their children’s professions, which unfortunately remains the same even today. In a survey by International Career & College Counseling (IC3), career-concerns are the leading cause of higher stress levels among students and parents alike, while 98 percent of the respondent-universities felt that empowering students from the school level would better prepare them in their careers. According to the HRD ministry, around 1.5 million engineers are...