Veterinary Science-opportunities ahead Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan Recently Veterinary Science has acquired as one of most wanted professional courses for higher education and research across the globe. There exists huge gap between availability and requirement of Veterinary graduates in the country. Currently more than 72 percent of Veterinary Science students are girls. Admission process for Bachelor in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry is based on entrance examinations like National eligibility cum entrance test (NEET) at the State and National level. It has emerged as the launching pad for bright students in the country. Veterinary Council of India is the regulatory body of Veterinary education in India. Fifteen percent of seats coming under all India quotas in Veterinary colleges of the country are filled through NEET. 85 percent seats are filled through NEET or State level Entrance examinations. States which allocate five percent of their s...
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Umpteen opportunities for upskilling, reskilling and digital transformation Basic challenge in higher education is how employability can be increased among educated youths in the country? Employability can be increased only through skilling interventions. There lies huge gap between available and required skills. Among skills, communication, technical, domain, IT and entrepreneurship skills are more important. Employability depends on factors like talent, content, skills, industry interface, innovation, creativity, collaboration, adaptation and right decision making. Some of the sectors like digital technologies, automation, Electric vehicle technology, clean technologies, smart construction, infrastructure, energy, mechatronics, connectivity, biomedical engineering, health care and skill development. E commerce, e learning, data analytics, food processing, food retail, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, machine learning, cyber security, process automation a...
Kerala students rank first among International students in Ukraine Ukraine educational institutions are emerging as potential destinations for Indian students to pursue global cost effective education without any proficiency tests. Ukraine Universities are offering market centred courses catering the need of the industries. All the Universities are promoting advanced technologies and skill development programmes to facilitate the competencies of students. Universities are involved in international collaborations with more than 50 counties. China and India rank first among other countries with regard to international collaborations. Of the international students, 45 percent are from India. Among the students from India, more than 50 percent are from Kerala. Doctor of Medicine, B. Tech in Aerospace engineering, Avionics, aircraft maintenance engineering, Manufacturing, Robotics, Computer Science engineering and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine are the most sought after und...
AMR can be reduced through farming systems approach Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of microorganisms to acquire resistance genes against the drugs manufactured to control them. World Health Organization forecast reveals that AMR will emerge as one of the major threats affecting death of millions of people annually by 2050. AMR Globally World Health Organization and World Health Organization for animal health (OIE) developed AMR global plan or good agriculture practices to counteract AMR during 2015. This envisages in appropriate interventions in food production systems especially agriculture and livestock production to offer standardized and coherent framework. This includes public awareness programmes, surveillance, prevalence of quantification of resistance, infection control, use optimization and investments in new treatments and diagnostics. Animal agriculture especially livestock production and fisheries sectors are the major targets for AMR intervent...
2022- Focus will be on agritech, processing and entrepreneurship The year 2022 will witness spectacular growth in agriculture. United Nations is celebrating 2022 as the year of aquaculture and fisheries. The sector which has been badly affected by Covid 19 disruptions will try to regain precovid growth. Focus areas include increase in production, productivity, diversification, processing, horticulture, automation, entrepreneurship, use of technologies and promotion of exports. Agritech sector will show robust growth through establishing more numbers of startups in agriculture. Digitalization will augment the processes in agri startups and will facilitate to develop new delivery models. These startups will make use of technologies like artificial intelligence, internet of things, smart farming, sensor-based farming, precision farming, drones, agri analytics and big data analytics. Lot of innovations will emerge during 2022. There will be a paradigm shift in agriculture towards...
Education and Career trends 2022 Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan New year 2022 forecasts and expectations vary based on prevalence of Omicron strain of Covid 19. With the onset of new strain, Covid 19 threat may still continue across the globe. World Health Organization estimates that by the mid-2022, global vaccination rate may reach 70 percent. Corporates may allow employees to continue remote working during 2022. But some of the corporates like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and City group will allow hybrid mode of working. Some of the European countries and Sharjah decided four-day workdays per week. Online and offline mode of working will divide workers in to two groups which may lead to inequality in working places. During 2022, meritorious workers may resign and look for innovative jobs or to try to become entrepreneurs. 2022 will exhibit substantial growth in digitalization and allied technologies. Application of automation and robotics in construction, infrastructure development a...