Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
The Gujarat Subordinate Services Selection Board wants 16 Operation Theatre Assistants. Holders of an OT technician diploma, a one-year OT certificate or a B.Sc. in OT and anaesthesia technology can apply on OJAS until 11:59 pm on 29 October.
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR has opened 97 posts, from Technical Assistant and Nurse to Technician, Fireman, drivers and Multi-Tasking Staff. Applications run from 19 October to 9 November on apps.shar.gov.in, and Ahmedabad is one of 18 exam cities.
NTA has opened applications for NIFTEE 2027, the entrance for NIFT’s design, fashion technology and management programmes. The fee deadline is 16 November, a late window costs ₹5,000 extra, and the written test is on 10 January 2027.
SSC has shortlisted 1,97,408 of the 21.57 lakh candidates who sat the Constable (GD) computer test for the physical efficiency and standard tests. In Gujarat, 7,023 candidates made the lists. Call letters will come from the CRPF recruitment site.
IGNOU’s revised tentative date sheet puts the December 2026 term-end exams between 25 November 2026 and 14 January 2027, in two daily sessions. Assignments for the exam are due by 31 October, and hall tickets will be posted on the university site.
NTA has corrected its UGC NET December 2026 bulletin. The test now runs on 14 to 18 December and 21 December instead of 14 to 19 December, cities are intimated on 23 November and admit cards open on 7 December. The application window, fees and late-fee dates have not changed, and answers marked for review will now be counted.
The Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board is hiring 1,663 Work Assistants (Class III) for the state’s Central Designs Organisation. Civil engineering diploma holders aged 18 to 33 can apply on OJAS until 11:59 pm on 29 October 2026 and must pay the fee by 1 November. Pay is ₹26,000 a month, fixed for five years. A civil engineering degree does not qualify.
Gujarat’s Health and Family Welfare Department has approved four private operators to set up medical colleges by upgrading government hospitals in Kheda, Mahisagar, Botad and Gir Somnath. The 15 October 2026 release gives no seat count and no start year, and every new college still needs the National Medical Commission’s permission before it can admit MBBS students.
Results the Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board published between 12 and 15 October 2026 show its special drives for candidates with disabilities drawing very few people. Only 2 were selected for 15 civil engineer posts, 4 sat the exam for 16 Ayurveda pharmacist posts, and the junior geologist drive’s only applicant did not turn up.
On 14 October 2026 Gujarat paid ₹1,100.19 crore in incentives to 14,853 units and said entrepreneurs no longer need a bank loan to claim them. Its new MSME scheme also requires 85% of staff to be Gujarat residents. Two days earlier, 25 more industrial units with about 8,178 jobs were cleared for state support.
Gujarat’s SHODH scheme pays full-time PhD scholars at the state’s universities ₹15,000 a month for up to two years, plus ₹20,000 a year for research costs. Online applications for 2026-27 close at 6 pm on Monday, 19 October 2026, and your university’s nodal officer must verify your documents by 6 pm on 30 October.
The National Medical Commission has allowed one extra (mercy) attempt at the First Professional MBBS examination for students admitted from 2019-20 onwards, raising the limit from four attempts to five. Students who have already used a mercy attempt get no sixth chance, and the whole course, internship included, must still end within 10 years of admission. The public notice is dated 15 October 2026.
CBSE has reminded principals, on 14 and 15 October, that the List of Candidates for the 2027 Class 10 and 12 board exams must be in by 21 October at the normal fee of ₹1,600. A ₹2,000 late fee applies from 22 to 30 October. Every Class 10 student must be entered for the first board exam in February-March, and wrong details can be fixed only from 2 to 4 November.
XLRI has opened a two-day edit window for XAT 2027 applications on 16 and 17 October 2026, for candidates who had submitted their forms. Its bulletin keeps registration open until 6 December, puts admit cards out from 20 December and holds the three-hour test from 2 pm to 5 pm on 3 January 2027. The fee is ₹2,300.
ICAI expects to declare the results of the September 2026 CA Intermediate exam by the evening of 22 October on caresults.icai.org; you need your registration and roll numbers. The next sitting is in January 2027, with Group I on 2, 4 and 6 January and Group II on 8, 10 and 12 January. Exam forms run from 3 to 16 November.
Symbiosis International (Deemed University) will run a SNAP 2026 mock test on 23 October for applicants who pay by 11:59 pm on 20 October. Registration closes on 25 November, and candidates can take up to three tests, on 13, 19 and 26 December, with the best score counting. Results are due on 12 January 2027.
A proposed US rule published on 8 October 2026 would make universities pay $70,000 before recommending an F-1 student for a first OPT, and $30,000 for every later OPT, including the STEM extension. DHS says schools may pass the cost on to students. It is only a proposal: comments close on 9 November 2026.
New Australian rules in force from 2 October 2026 stop most Student visa applicants from including a partner or children, and family can no longer join later. Most students already in Australia must lodge their next student visa from outside the country, and until 30 June 2027 you must finish 12 months of your course before changing provider.
The UK Home Office is raising the living-cost money that Student visa applicants must show. For applications made on or after 30 November 2026, it is £1,570 a month in London and £1,203 elsewhere, for up to nine months: £14,130 or £10,827 in all. Applications made before 30 November use the old figures.
From Monday 16 November 2026, graduates of a Level 7 graduate diploma in New Zealand who also hold a bachelor’s degree, including one from India, can get a Post-Study Work Visa with open work rights for up to a year. A new 6-month Short-Term Graduate Work Visa opens the same day for Level 5 to 7 graduates who do not qualify.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has opened registration for round 4, the final stray vacancy round for MBBS and BDS. It is meant for NEET-UG 2026 qualifiers who never registered in rounds 1 to 3. Buy the PIN by 8 am and register by 10 am on 17 October, then verify documents at a help centre by noon the same day.
The Union health ministry has cut the NEET-MDS 2026 qualifying percentile by 20.576 points, bringing the general cut-off down to 234 out of 960. Gujarat’s PG medical admission committee has reopened MDS registration for newly eligible dentists: register by 5 pm on 18 October and verify documents on 19 October.
The Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board is filling 11 Class III staff nurse posts in the state’s Employees’ State Insurance Scheme through a special recruitment drive open only to candidates with benchmark disabilities. B.Sc Nursing or GNM holders can apply on OJAS from 15 to 29 October 2026. Pay starts at ₹40,800 a month.
GPSC has told applicants for nine Gujarat Maritime Board advertisements, from marine engineer and pilot officer to naval architect, to upload their experience, caste and income certificates on its gpsc-iass portal between 1 pm on 16 October and 11:59 pm on 25 October. Anyone who misses it is out before the 13 December preliminary.
