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Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Coursera global skills report 2025: India ranks 89th; AI and tech skills in high demand
Coursera, Inc., a leading global online learning platform, released its annual Global Skills Report , revealing a 107% year-over-year (YoY) surge in Generative AI (GenAI) enrollments in India and over 2.6 million enrollments to date — the highest of any country globally. With a rapidly growing learner base now exceeding 31 million, India has also surpassed Europe in total learner numbers on Coursera, highlighting its deepening commitment to digital transformation and job-relevant education. Based on insights from Coursera's global community of over 170 million learners, the report tracks emerging skill trends across more than 100 countries. Now in its seventh year, the 2025 edition ranks India 89th globally for overall skills proficiency and 19th in Asia Pacific. Indian learners demonstrate 18% proficiency in business, 22% in technology, and 20% in data science. The report also introduces a new AI Maturity Index, where India ranks mid-tier (#46), signaling a growing but uneven ecosystem for AI innovation and talent development. India's growing skilling ambition is backed by soaring demand for digital and AI talent. India's AI Revolution: A Roadmap to Viksit Bharat estimates the country will need one million AI-skilled professionals by 2026. The World Economic Forum reports that 30% of Indian employers (compared to just 19% globally) are shifting to skills-based hiring by removing degree requirements. Coursera's learner trends reflect this transition, with enrollments in Professional Certificates growing 23% YoY, alongside rising demand for employer-prioritized skills such as AI/ML (+84%), customer service (+41%), and curiosity (+32%). 'India's digital and AI ambition is clearly reflected in both national policies and learner behavior,' said Prashasti Rastogi, Director - Coursera for Campus and Coursera for Government, India. 'From national AI missions to skills-based hiring reforms and interdisciplinary education models, we're seeing the foundations of a future-ready workforce take shape. Coursera is proud to support this transformation by partnering across education, industry, and government to build a scalable and inclusive talent pipeline aligned to India's economic goals.' Key findings for India: India leads globally in GenAI enrollments, with a 107% YoY surge. However, only 30% of GenAI learners are women, compared to 40% of overall Coursera enrollments, revealing a gender gap in emerging tech Certificate enrollments grew 23% YoY to 3.3 million, indicating strong demand for job-relevant credentials. However, only 26% of these enrollments are from women, pointing to an opportunity for more inclusive than half of Coursera learners in India (52%) access the platform via mobile, reflecting the country's strong digital adoption and widening access to flexible, self-paced learners are prioritizing full-stack development and DevOps skills, with strong demand for web development, application lifecycle management, and containerization — reflecting a clear focus on software engineering and scalable tech infrastructure. With over 31 million Coursera learners and a median learner age of 31, India is uniquely positioned to shape the global workforce of the future. The country is expected to contribute 24% of global workforce growth over the next decade, with its working-age population projected to peak at 68% by 2030 . Yet challenges remain. According to the ILO , 47% of Indian workers – and 62% of women – are underqualified for their jobs, underscoring the urgent need for outcome-based, inclusive, and scalable skilling. Bridging this gap will require coordinated national efforts – including expanding public-private partnerships, integrating micro-credentials into higher education, and scaling online learning access. Increasing women's participation in emerging technology fields will also be critical – not just to achieve gender equality, but to unlock the full potential of India's digital economy.
Indian Express
2 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
India sees a 107% rise in gen AI course enrolments, ranks 89th globally: Coursera Report
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing jobs worldwide. This technological shift is also prompting millions to embrace AI, which is evident in the recent uptick in takers of online AI courses. It seems professionals from India too are not far behind. The newly released Coursera Global Skills Report 2025 reveals that India has recorded a 107 per cent year-on-year increase in enrolments for generative AI courses with 2.6 million, which is so far the highest in the world. Even though more Indian professionals are enrolling, India ranks 89th globally and 19th in the Asia Pacific region for overall skills proficiency. The seventh edition of Coursera's Global Skills Report assesses countries based on the performance of learners in areas such as business, technology, and data science. The report shows that Indian learners have 18 per cent proficiency in business, 22 per cent in technology, and 20 per cent in data science. This indicates a widening skills gap in crucial sectors. On Coursera's AI Maturity Index that evaluates a country's readiness for AI innovation and talent development, India ranks 46th. This is in line with the recent estimates that suggest India may need about one million professionals skilled in AI by 2026. 'India's digital and AI ambition is clearly reflected in both national policies and learner behaviour. From national AI missions to skills-based hiring reforms and interdisciplinary education models, we're seeing the foundations of a future-ready workforce take shape,' said Coursera's Director for Campus and Government in India, Prashasti Rastogi. When it comes to other key findings, professional certificate enrolments rose 23 per cent year-on-year, reaching 3.3 million. Notably, only 26 per cent of these came from women learners. In gen AI courses, only 30 per cent were women learners compared to the overall 40 per cent enrolments, indicating a gender gap in participation in emerging tech. Another notable finding is that as many as 52 per cent of Indian Coursera users access the platform through their mobile devices. This highlights India's deepening smartphone penetration and preference among learners for flexible modes of learning. Moreover, Indian learners are increasingly opting for full-stack development, DevOps, and containerisation skills, according to the platform. India has 31 million learners with a median learner age of 31, more than Europe's total enrolments, making it a key driver of the global digital workforce. India is expected to contribute about 24 per cent of the global workforce over the next decade; however, a vast number of Indian workers continue to be underqualified. The report throws light on the need to focus on outcome-based skilling, public-private collaboration, and women's participation in tech fields. The Global Skills Report 2025 was based on Coursera's 170 million learners between March 2024 and February 2025, identifying key skills across over 100 countries. Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with over 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025.
Hans India
31-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
India's leap to AI Maturity begins with skills as Agentic AI expected to redefine 10.35 million jobs by 2030: New ServiceNow Report 2025
New research reveals Indian Enterprises are outpacing markets in APAC already in terms of AI Maturity India is poised for the world's largest workforce transformation, with Agentic AI expected to redefine 10.35 million roles by 2030, according to newly released ServiceNow AI Skills Research 2025, conducted with Pearson. This shift signals a generational opportunity for India's vast talent base—shifting from process-driven tasks to purpose-led innovation and enabling a reimagined future of work. "India's AI journey is at a defining moment with Agentic AI reshaping the workforce and redefining 10.35 million roles while creating over 3 million new tech jobs by 2030,' said Sumeet Mathur, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, ServiceNow India Technology and Business Center. ServiceNow's AI Maturity Index identifies Indian AI Pacesetters who are leading this transformation by getting five things right: a clear AI vision, platform-first thinking, the right talent mix, strong governance, and scaled Agentic AI implementation. The impact is significant — 57% report improved efficiency and productivity. 'India has a generational opportunity to lead globally by developing AI-ready talent, redesigning workflows, and reorienting business models around continuous innovation. The message for Indian enterprises is clear: the era of scattered pilots is behind us. Competing globally now requires bold execution, integrated strategy, and genuine human-AI collaboration based on trust, transparency, and skill" said Mathur. Agentic AI at work: what will change for 10.35 million Indian workers The AI Skills research highlights a spectrum of role evolution: High-automation roles like change managers and payroll clerks are being redefined by AI agents that take over routine coordination. High-augmentation roles such as implementation consultants and system admins are increasingly partnering with AI—not competing with it. The manufacturing (8 million), retail (7.6 million) and education (2.5 million) sectors will bear the highest impact of this transformation, spurring a seismic shift in how these industries operate and innovate. With the world's largest youth population and a dynamic digital economy, India is poised to add 3 million tech workers over the next five years. Indian Enterprises ascent to AI maturity with increased investments The AI Maturity Index shows that as enterprises shift toward real-world AI deployment, they are prioritizing future-forward roles such as AI Configurators (66%), Experience Designers (57%), and Data Scientists (65%). Enterprise ambitions are expanding in parallel, and the results show that Indian organizations are moving decisively beyond pilots and proofs of concept, signalling a bold readiness to operationalize AI at scale: 13.5% of tech budgets are already committed to AI adoption. 25% of Indian enterprises are in the transformation phase—outpacing markets like Singapore (20%) and Australia (21%). Enterprises that redesigned workflows with AI reported a 63% boost in productivity. However, this AI momentum faces key tests in skills and security While India's AI journey is gaining remarkable momentum, challenges remain. Data security tops the list of concerns for 30% of Indian enterprises—the highest in the region. Additionally, 26% of organizations remain unclear about the future skillsets required, highlighting the urgent need for strategic foresight and structured, cross-functional reskilling pathways. To truly harness its potential, Indian enterprises must equip employees not only to review AI outputs, but to actively interrogate the processes and data that shape them. Becoming an AI-powered organization means building with trust, fostering autonomy, and seamlessly integrating AI to elevate human potential across roles.
The Advertiser
22-07-2025
- Business
- The Advertiser
Lack of AI playbook puts Australia down readiness ranks
Two in three Australian businesses are not ready to implement artificial intelligence, a study has found, despite most companies being committed to spending more on the technology. The lack of clear plans or trained staff has dragged Australia down the AI readiness rankings over the past year, even though most employees remain concerned about the effect it will have on their jobs. ServiceNow released the findings from its AI Maturity Index on Monday, leading experts to warn businesses to reassess their plans for artificial intelligence or risk missing out on productivity gains. The warning comes as the federal government prepares to host a summit on boosting productivity, and after the Productivity Commission named AI as one of its five focus areas for the coming year. The company's AI Maturity Index, prepared with Oxford Economics, surveyed more than 4400 senior business leaders from 16 countries including 560 Australian executives. It found Australian businesses were less prepared to implement AI than they were in the previous year, falling from a score of 46 points out of 100 to 35. The lower grade reflects one in three business leaders saying their companies had a clear vision to change using AI, and 37 per cent said they had the right mix of skills and talent in their workforce. The result was particularly surprising, ServiceNow emerging technology director Dani Magnusson said, as most Australian companies planned to increase AI spending over the coming year. "We've got 82 per cent of organisations investing in AI but only a third of those organisations setting a clear vision and strategy for how it gets implemented across the organisation," she told AAP. "Businesses aren't planning for AI." Keeping the technology "siloed" in individual business departments was holding back progress, Ms Magnussen said, although businesses should also consider whether their employees had the right skills to implement AI reform. "There's no question it will give us more productivity and more capacity and it will take away some of the parts of the jobs and the roles that we don't enjoy doing today," she said. But the survey also identified widespread fear among employees, with six in 10 Australian executives saying workers had raised concerns about job security due to generative AI. The research predicted the technology could be used to automate 670,000 roles by 2030, while it created a comparatively few 150,000 technology jobs. The findings should encourage more workers to learn about the technology, management consultancy Bain & Company's Asia Pacific AI head Richard Fleming said, and for organisations to make AI tools available to staff for experimentation. "It's now our responsibility to start individually using AI and working out how do I use it in my everyday life, how do I use it at work to build skills and understanding," he told AAP. "We should be embracing AI and training people on how to use it, training them on the risks, and that becomes a broad responsibility." Two in three Australian businesses are not ready to implement artificial intelligence, a study has found, despite most companies being committed to spending more on the technology. The lack of clear plans or trained staff has dragged Australia down the AI readiness rankings over the past year, even though most employees remain concerned about the effect it will have on their jobs. ServiceNow released the findings from its AI Maturity Index on Monday, leading experts to warn businesses to reassess their plans for artificial intelligence or risk missing out on productivity gains. The warning comes as the federal government prepares to host a summit on boosting productivity, and after the Productivity Commission named AI as one of its five focus areas for the coming year. The company's AI Maturity Index, prepared with Oxford Economics, surveyed more than 4400 senior business leaders from 16 countries including 560 Australian executives. It found Australian businesses were less prepared to implement AI than they were in the previous year, falling from a score of 46 points out of 100 to 35. The lower grade reflects one in three business leaders saying their companies had a clear vision to change using AI, and 37 per cent said they had the right mix of skills and talent in their workforce. The result was particularly surprising, ServiceNow emerging technology director Dani Magnusson said, as most Australian companies planned to increase AI spending over the coming year. "We've got 82 per cent of organisations investing in AI but only a third of those organisations setting a clear vision and strategy for how it gets implemented across the organisation," she told AAP. "Businesses aren't planning for AI." Keeping the technology "siloed" in individual business departments was holding back progress, Ms Magnussen said, although businesses should also consider whether their employees had the right skills to implement AI reform. "There's no question it will give us more productivity and more capacity and it will take away some of the parts of the jobs and the roles that we don't enjoy doing today," she said. But the survey also identified widespread fear among employees, with six in 10 Australian executives saying workers had raised concerns about job security due to generative AI. The research predicted the technology could be used to automate 670,000 roles by 2030, while it created a comparatively few 150,000 technology jobs. The findings should encourage more workers to learn about the technology, management consultancy Bain & Company's Asia Pacific AI head Richard Fleming said, and for organisations to make AI tools available to staff for experimentation. "It's now our responsibility to start individually using AI and working out how do I use it in my everyday life, how do I use it at work to build skills and understanding," he told AAP. "We should be embracing AI and training people on how to use it, training them on the risks, and that becomes a broad responsibility." Two in three Australian businesses are not ready to implement artificial intelligence, a study has found, despite most companies being committed to spending more on the technology. The lack of clear plans or trained staff has dragged Australia down the AI readiness rankings over the past year, even though most employees remain concerned about the effect it will have on their jobs. ServiceNow released the findings from its AI Maturity Index on Monday, leading experts to warn businesses to reassess their plans for artificial intelligence or risk missing out on productivity gains. The warning comes as the federal government prepares to host a summit on boosting productivity, and after the Productivity Commission named AI as one of its five focus areas for the coming year. The company's AI Maturity Index, prepared with Oxford Economics, surveyed more than 4400 senior business leaders from 16 countries including 560 Australian executives. It found Australian businesses were less prepared to implement AI than they were in the previous year, falling from a score of 46 points out of 100 to 35. The lower grade reflects one in three business leaders saying their companies had a clear vision to change using AI, and 37 per cent said they had the right mix of skills and talent in their workforce. The result was particularly surprising, ServiceNow emerging technology director Dani Magnusson said, as most Australian companies planned to increase AI spending over the coming year. "We've got 82 per cent of organisations investing in AI but only a third of those organisations setting a clear vision and strategy for how it gets implemented across the organisation," she told AAP. "Businesses aren't planning for AI." Keeping the technology "siloed" in individual business departments was holding back progress, Ms Magnussen said, although businesses should also consider whether their employees had the right skills to implement AI reform. "There's no question it will give us more productivity and more capacity and it will take away some of the parts of the jobs and the roles that we don't enjoy doing today," she said. But the survey also identified widespread fear among employees, with six in 10 Australian executives saying workers had raised concerns about job security due to generative AI. The research predicted the technology could be used to automate 670,000 roles by 2030, while it created a comparatively few 150,000 technology jobs. The findings should encourage more workers to learn about the technology, management consultancy Bain & Company's Asia Pacific AI head Richard Fleming said, and for organisations to make AI tools available to staff for experimentation. "It's now our responsibility to start individually using AI and working out how do I use it in my everyday life, how do I use it at work to build skills and understanding," he told AAP. "We should be embracing AI and training people on how to use it, training them on the risks, and that becomes a broad responsibility." Two in three Australian businesses are not ready to implement artificial intelligence, a study has found, despite most companies being committed to spending more on the technology. The lack of clear plans or trained staff has dragged Australia down the AI readiness rankings over the past year, even though most employees remain concerned about the effect it will have on their jobs. ServiceNow released the findings from its AI Maturity Index on Monday, leading experts to warn businesses to reassess their plans for artificial intelligence or risk missing out on productivity gains. The warning comes as the federal government prepares to host a summit on boosting productivity, and after the Productivity Commission named AI as one of its five focus areas for the coming year. The company's AI Maturity Index, prepared with Oxford Economics, surveyed more than 4400 senior business leaders from 16 countries including 560 Australian executives. It found Australian businesses were less prepared to implement AI than they were in the previous year, falling from a score of 46 points out of 100 to 35. The lower grade reflects one in three business leaders saying their companies had a clear vision to change using AI, and 37 per cent said they had the right mix of skills and talent in their workforce. The result was particularly surprising, ServiceNow emerging technology director Dani Magnusson said, as most Australian companies planned to increase AI spending over the coming year. "We've got 82 per cent of organisations investing in AI but only a third of those organisations setting a clear vision and strategy for how it gets implemented across the organisation," she told AAP. "Businesses aren't planning for AI." Keeping the technology "siloed" in individual business departments was holding back progress, Ms Magnussen said, although businesses should also consider whether their employees had the right skills to implement AI reform. "There's no question it will give us more productivity and more capacity and it will take away some of the parts of the jobs and the roles that we don't enjoy doing today," she said. But the survey also identified widespread fear among employees, with six in 10 Australian executives saying workers had raised concerns about job security due to generative AI. The research predicted the technology could be used to automate 670,000 roles by 2030, while it created a comparatively few 150,000 technology jobs. The findings should encourage more workers to learn about the technology, management consultancy Bain & Company's Asia Pacific AI head Richard Fleming said, and for organisations to make AI tools available to staff for experimentation. "It's now our responsibility to start individually using AI and working out how do I use it in my everyday life, how do I use it at work to build skills and understanding," he told AAP. "We should be embracing AI and training people on how to use it, training them on the risks, and that becomes a broad responsibility."
Perth Now
20-07-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
Lack of AI playbook puts Australia down readiness ranks
Two in three Australian businesses are not ready to implement artificial intelligence, a study has found, despite most companies being committed to spending more on the technology. The lack of clear plans or trained staff has dragged Australia down the AI readiness rankings over the past year, even though most employees remain concerned about the effect it will have on their jobs. ServiceNow released the findings from its AI Maturity Index on Monday, leading experts to warn businesses to reassess their plans for artificial intelligence or risk missing out on productivity gains. The warning comes as the federal government prepares to host a summit on boosting productivity, and after the Productivity Commission named AI as one of its five focus areas for the coming year. The company's AI Maturity Index, prepared with Oxford Economics, surveyed more than 4400 senior business leaders from 16 countries including 560 Australian executives. It found Australian businesses were less prepared to implement AI than they were in the previous year, falling from a score of 46 points out of 100 to 35. The lower grade reflects one in three business leaders saying their companies had a clear vision to change using AI, and 37 per cent said they had the right mix of skills and talent in their workforce. The result was particularly surprising, ServiceNow emerging technology director Dani Magnusson said, as most Australian companies planned to increase AI spending over the coming year. "We've got 82 per cent of organisations investing in AI but only a third of those organisations setting a clear vision and strategy for how it gets implemented across the organisation," she told AAP. "Businesses aren't planning for AI." Keeping the technology "siloed" in individual business departments was holding back progress, Ms Magnussen said, although businesses should also consider whether their employees had the right skills to implement AI reform. "There's no question it will give us more productivity and more capacity and it will take away some of the parts of the jobs and the roles that we don't enjoy doing today," she said. But the survey also identified widespread fear among employees, with six in 10 Australian executives saying workers had raised concerns about job security due to generative AI. The research predicted the technology could be used to automate 670,000 roles by 2030, while it created a comparatively few 150,000 technology jobs. The findings should encourage more workers to learn about the technology, management consultancy Bain & Company's Asia Pacific AI head Richard Fleming said, and for organisations to make AI tools available to staff for experimentation. "It's now our responsibility to start individually using AI and working out how do I use it in my everyday life, how do I use it at work to build skills and understanding," he told AAP. "We should be embracing AI and training people on how to use it, training them on the risks, and that becomes a broad responsibility."
