{"id":97604,"date":"2026-01-21T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?p=97604"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:44:00","slug":"skill-connect-2026-commences-at-m-g-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/skill-connect-2026-commences-at-m-g-university\/","title":{"rendered":"SKILL CONNECT 2026 Concludes at M G University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/skill-connect-2026-commences-at-m-g-university\/dsc_0843-1-scaled\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97685\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0843-1-scaled-1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1113\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0843-1-scaled-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0843-1-scaled-1-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0843-1-scaled-1-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0843-1-scaled-1-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0843-1-scaled-1-2048x1229.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1113px) 100vw, 1113px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IN\">SKILL CONNECT 2026 , an Industry-Academia\u00a0Convergence for future-ready talent co<\/span><span lang=\"en-IN\">nclud<\/span><span lang=\"en-IN\">ed at Mahatma Gandhi University. The programme under the Vijnana Keralam, popular campaign of the Government of Kerala, was inaugurated by Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. C.T. Aravindakumar at the University Assembly Hall on 21 January 2026. The Vice Chancellor called upon the student community for attaining skills to cope with the challenges of the new world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The meeting was presided over by Dr.P.V.Unnikrishnan, Member Secretary,K-DISC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-IN\">Former Finance Minister and\u00a0Chief\u00a0Advisor to Vijnana Keralam, Dr. T. M.Thomas Issac, in his keynote address , noted that Kerala is performing well in all development indices and the unemployment rate in the State is coming down considerably. He also stated that knowledge- economy is the answer to unemployment. Dr.Thomas Issac lauded universities in Kerala especially Mahatma Gandhi University for attaining high rankings in TIMES, NIRF and UGC Category 1 Status.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Over 1200 students and teachers from affiliated colleges, University Schools and Departments took part in the two day conclave , which was conducted across six venues in the campus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SKILL CONNECT 2026 , an Industry-Academia\u00a0Convergence for future-ready talent concluded at Mahatma Gandhi University. The programme under the Vijnana Keralam, popular campaign of the Government of Kerala, was inaugurated by Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. C.T. Aravindakumar at the University Assembly Hall on 21 January 2026. The Vice Chancellor called upon the student community for attaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97691,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97604\/revisions\/97691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}