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VC CU launches free professional career guidance facility for state students "Universities should work on imparting education based upon industry expectations" 4/2/2018 11:56:30 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 2: "Industry expectation have changed a lot from the fresh talent joining them and as a result the Universities in today's scenario have to overhaul their academic structure so that the youth are trained as per the requirements of the corporate world," said Dr R S Bawa, Vice-Chancellor (VC), Chandigarh University (CU) here today during a press conference. CU VC was in town to inaugurate professional career counselling facility for the students of the state which would be available free-of-cost at the University regional office at Jammu. This facility has also been extended to the students of Kashmir and would be available to the students at the University regional office at Kashmir which was also inaugurated by the VC today during his visit to the state. Under the facility, any matric, 10+2 or graduate student could walk-in for getting professional career guidance for which the student would undergo psychometric test based upon which they would be given Career Advisory Report that would help them to choose their field of interest. Dr Bawa revealed that more than 1700 students from different parts of J&K are currently studying at CU. "Students from J&K state have shown brilliant performance in academics and campus placements 2017," said Dr Bawa. While launching the All India Scholarship based Entrance Test, CU-SAT-2018 (Chandigarh University Scholarship and Admission Test), VC said, "CU-SAT would be a Scholarship based All India Entrance Test for Under-Graduate programmes offered by Chandigarh University for 2018 session where students can become eligible for academic scholarships worth Rs 10 crores". He further said, "The All India Entrance Test would be conducted online in the month of May-June 2018. CU-SAT 2018 would offer 100% scholarship to first 1% toppers of CU-SAT 2018 while the next 2% toppers would be given 50% scholarship during their course tenure. In addition to above CU-SAT offers guaranteed scholarship of 5% for every student who would be securing 60% in CU-SAT Entrance Examination."   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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