In general, the importance of education for all of us and especially for students has gone up. It is much more important to be studying in college and getting a degree than it was 2 months ago because many industries are going to slow down. We may see a recession or slow down in the economy. So, it is important to get education from a good quality institution.

For students today it is important to learn more skills. For example a B.Com graduate should learn skills which are related to data and digital because to distinguish themselves, those are the areas which companies are seeking in terms of the differentiated skills and a commerce student could come to a platform like Coursera and depending on their existing skills, they can take a series of courses from the starting level which can then help them to get into a fairly differentiated profile. Students who are planning to work in a BPO or KPO, IBM has a certificate program on Coursera which is around Customer engagement and some of those programs can be very differentiated programs for which students can look.

Raghav Gupta
Managing Director, India and APAC, Coursera