Mumbai, February 9. The Aditya Birla Education Academy (ABEA) has signed a collaboration agreement with the US-based Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) to offer scholarships in India for CTY’s online programs for advanced learners.
Under terms of the agreement, ABEA and CTY will identify and support bright young learners in India through these online […]
New Delhi, January 12. CyberPeace Foundation, a think tank and NGO promoted by cyber security and policy experts, launched a cyber security training programme in collaboration with the Union ministry of education and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the benefit of industry, academia, government and civil society. The objective of the programme […]
Bengaluru, December 17. Cambridge Assessment English, a department of Cambridge University (UK), has teamed up with the Bengaluru-based Enguru Live English Learning to launch Upskill, a new smartphone-based test of English. Upskill will enhance the employability of graduates aspiring for entry level jobs in corporate organisations and covers four skills — speaking, listening, reading and […]
Bengaluru, November 17. Kara4Kids, a group of premium preschools and daycares in Bengaluru, signed an academic collaboration agreement with The Pennsylvania Global and Education Hub (Penn Hub), a joint initiative of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education, a consortium of independent universities and public community colleges. This agreement for early education will equip Kara4Kids teachers […]
Bengaluru, November 6. The Bengaluru-based Sportz Village and EducationWorld recently hosted a ‘Maintaining fitness and good health during the pandemic’ webinar moderated by Summiya Yasmeen, managing editor, EducationWorld. The eminent educators’ panelists included Dr. Ashok Pandey, director, Ahlcon Group of Schools, Delhi; Dr. S. Bhavanishankar Subramanian, senior principal, Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Chennai; Saumil […]
New Delhi, September 8. The Coimbatore-based Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University (AVVU) has been awarded a Unesco chair for Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development. Through this chair, the university will design a curriculum based on experiential learning which will enable the academic community to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to implement […]
Bangalore, August 19. In association with HackerU, Israel’s premier cyber security training provider, Jigsaw Academy, a Manipal Global investee company, announced the launch of a new Masters certificate in cyber security (Blue Team) study programme.
According to Jigsaw Academy spokespersons, cyber security has become an important subject since most organisations have started functioning remotely. There are […]
The Sonipat (Haryana)-based Ashoka University hosted a ‘Shaping Organisations of the Future’, a virtual conference on June 27. The conference was addressed by business, finance and industry leaders including Pramod Bhasin, Genpact; Amitabh Chaudhry, Axis Bank; Deep Kalra, MakeMyTrip, and Ashish Dhawan, Ashoka University. The conference was attended by over 2,000 […]
The silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis and the susbequent lockdown of all education institutions from KG to Ph D is that it has stimulated innovative ICT solutions to ensure continuity of teaching-learning. Here’s how several randomly selected education companies and institutional managements are responding to the Covid-19 Challenge & Response.
Under the leadership of principal K.V. Arjun Rao, the Cambridge International (UK) and IB (Geneva)-affiliated JBCN International School (JBCNIS), Oshiwara has designed innovative online teaching-learning solutions by leveraging ICT and digital platforms to ensure learning continuity of its students during the Covid-19 induced national […]
Rohit Bhat, CEO, Children’s Academy Group of Schools
With three campuses in Mumbai’s northern suburbs of Kandivali and Malad, the Children’s Academy Group of Schools (CAGS, estb.1970) is in the vanguard of the digital technologies-driven education revolution. The group led by CEO Rohit Bhat is providing engaging and personalised online learning to 8,500 […]
The silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis and the susbequent lockdown of all education institutions from KG to Ph D is that it has stimulated innovative ICT solutions to ensure continuity of teaching-learning. Here’s how several randomly selected institutional managements are responding to the Covid-19 challenge.
With a third of the global population and K-12 and higher education institutions in 185 countries including India,
locked down since mid-March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus aka Covid-19 pandemic, educators worldwide are confronted with the greatest disruption since the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918. Consequently, education institutions are responding to this disruption by shifting […]
Noida, February 21. Sampark Foundation’s Sampark Smart Shala programme — a disruptive, inclusive programme to transform the learning outcomes for millions of children — has been selected one of the Top 100 entries of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 100 & Change Competition. The winner to be selected from among the […]
New Delhi, January 10. Honda Cars India has partnered with Juana Technologies to launch India Innovate — Wheels to Fly, the India chapter of an international STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics) and a ‘Race to the line’ competition. This fun-win-learn initiative is the country’s first STEM-based Model Rocket Car Making and Racing competition which […]
New Delhi/Sydney, December 6. O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), one of India’s Institutions of Eminence, signed MoUs (memoranda of understanding) with seven highly-ranked universities in Australia, viz, Macquarie University, University of New South Wales, University of New England, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney and Western Sydney University.
Bangalore, November 7. Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced winners of the Infosys Prize 2019 in six categories — engineering and computer sciences, humanities, life sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. The prize for each category awardee is a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse of US$100,000 (Rs.72 lakh) this year.
Pune, October 30. FLAME University (estb. 2015), a pioneer Pune-based liberal arts varsity, signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the top-ranked Amherst College, Massachusetts (USA) for collaboration on academic and student initiatives, sharing best practices and generating cutting-edge research.
“This partnership signifies an important step forward in our mission of making FLAME a truly global […]
New Delhi, August 2. Nearly 450 Indian students and faculty have been awarded Erasmus+ scholarship and mobility grants funded by the European Union to study in top-ranked universities across Europe this year. With grants also offered by EU member states, more than 50,000 Indian students are pursuing higher education in Europe.
Bangalore, July 30. IFIM Business School, Bangalore (estb.1995), one of the few AACSB accredited management institutes in India, in association with the Academy of Indian Marketing (AIM) launched the first-ever index of Service Excellence in India (iSEI) and unveiled the IFIM-AIM Parasuraman Centre of Service Excellence in Bangalore which will function under the guidance of […]
Bangalore, June 25. The Institution of Engineering and Technology India (IET) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saraswati Seva Foundation (SSF), a non-profit organisation committed to serve underprivileged communities to use new knowledge, tools and technologies.
The MoU aims to deliver STEM-C (science, technology, engineering, maths-computer) programmes to upskill teachers of schools that specifically cater […]
Sonipat, May 16. The 2019 graduating class of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has broken a new record with employment offers from over 57 corporate law and 24 litigation firms and 30 world-class universities for higher study. The top recruiter of JGLS’ graduating class of 2019 is corporate law firm Trilegal (10 offers) followed […]
Bangalore, April 12. British Council is set to introduce its annual Summer Programme for children in nine cities countrywide between April 30 and May 25. Programme fees are Rs.4,000 for library members and Rs.5,500 for non-members. The programme offers children opportunity to learn contemporary life skills such as creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving and improve […]
Dubai, March 22. Peter Tabichi, a science teacher of the Franciscan order in Kenya, was awarded the US $1 million (Rs.6.9 crore) Global Teacher Prize at the 7th Global Skills and Education Forum (GSEF), a three-day conference in Dubai hosted by the Varkey Foundation (estb.2010).
Over 2,000 delegates from around the world felicitated Tabichi, who teaches […]
Mumbai, February 3. More than 330 students of 30 schools across the United Arab Emirates and seven schools from India attended a two-day inaugural Diplomathon UAE 2019 conference in Dubai city on February 1-2.
“Diplomathon is a unique platform for constructive leadership and engagement of youth in real time dialogues via new technologies to become ‘world-ready’ […]
Bangalore, January 18. The Bangalore-based The Teacher Foundation (TTF, estb. 2002), a nationally reputed not-for-profit which has trained over 75,000 teachers during the past 16 years, launched its Indian Social and Emotional Learning Framework (ISELF), a curriculum for developing social-emotional competencies in children of the 6-18 age group.
“There are no existing well-researched and articulated standards […]
DELHI, DECEMBER 4. Honda Cars India Ltd, the well-known passenger cars manufacturing company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Delhi-based Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC) for accreditation of its premier training centre, the Honda Vocational Training Institute (HVTI), in Alwar, Rajasthan.
HVTI (estb.2011) is Honda’s state-of-the-art technical training centre promoted to develop skilled […]
Mumbai, november 27. Renowned as one of Britain’s best universities for teacher education, the University of Worcester (UK) has teamed up with former Bollywood star and educationist Dr. Swaroop Sampat-Rawal — an alumna of UoW — to offer its in-service teacher training programmes in India. A diploma programme in personal social education will be launched […]
Bangalore, October 4. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Manipal ProLearn, a professional learning arm of the Bangalore-based Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), and Atlanta (USA)-based Equifax Inc, a global information solutions company. The MoU aims at creating industry-ready professionals specialised in data science and analytic skills for the banking financial services and […]
Bangalore, September 4. The Indus School of Leadership (ISL, estb.2010), which offers outbound experiential learning programmes to inculcate leadership qualities in students, teachers and corporate executives, has shifted base from Yellagiri in Tamil Nadu to a campus in Kanakapura (Ramanagara district), 70 km from Bangalore.
Equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure for over 400 outbound adventure activities such […]
Bangalore, August 14. On the eve of Independence Day (August 15), Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore, signed up to join the global Fairtrade Schools network. Students of Fairtrade Schools in Germany, Australia and UK welcomed Vidyashilp students into the Fairtrade network. Moreover Sarvaiya Pravinkumar Nagajibhai, a Fairtrade cotton shareholder of Soundarya Farmers Producer Co, Gujarat, from whose […]
Noida, July 7. The Ramagya School, Noida (estb.2005) organised its inaugural Ramagya Noida Sports League (RNSL) marathon in India. The RNSL marathon started on July 7 at 5 p.m and ended the next day i.e, July 8 at 7 p.m.
The uniqueness of the RNSL marathon is that it is the first sports programme open […]
Istituto Marangoni, Milan (estb.1935) inaugurated its first educational facility in India in Mumbai recently. The new school will offer a wide set of training resources and tools designed to provide fashion students and industry professionals the most qualitative learning experiences.
The institute offers broad (i.e, 24 weeks) and short-term (one week) courses focused on fashion design, […]
Khan Academy (India, estb. 2016), the Delhi-based subsidiary of the globally acclaimed Khan Academy, USA, has aligned the maths library containing thousands of videos, exercises and commentaries of its parent not-for-profit company to the classes V-XII syllabus of the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) — India’s largest national school-leaving examinations board with 18,635 […]
The Delhi-based NIIT Ltd (estb.1981), a global leader in ICT skills and talent development, inaugurated its biggest Big Data talent training base at Guiyang City, China on January 9. It will conduct IT (information technology) and Big Data training for university graduates, working professionals and government employees in Guizhou province. The centre will also help […]
Techtronics Education India Ltd, an affiliate of the Denmark-based Lego A/S (annual sales: Rs.36,720 crore), and the Gurgaon-based NGO Indian STEM Foundation inaugurated a Robo Shiksha Kendra (robotics lab) at the Kendriya Vidyalaya-1, Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) on November 24.
“The Robo Shiksha Kendra lab will facilitate the learning of science and maths on a robotic platform. […]
Boca Juniors Football School India (BJFSI), an affiliate of the Argentina-based Club Atletico Boca Juniors, one of the premier football clubs in the world, launched its Mumbai academy in collaboration with The Sports Gurukul, Mumbai on March 1. The BJFSI Academy was launched by Club Atletico’s technical director Petros Sideris, who announced that Antonio Lopez […]
The 21st convocation of the top-ranked Manipal University was held at the varsity’s state-of-the-art 600-acre campus in Manipal over three days — November 21, 25 and 28 — during which over 3,294 graduating students were awarded undergrad, postgraduate and doctorate degrees. The impressive ceremony was presided over by chief guests A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman, Indian […]
To promote international peace and harmony in an increasingly globalised world, the Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI), a countrywide network of K-12 schools, sent three student delegations abroad this summer. RIGI students spent a fortnight at the Seven Oaks School, Thames Valley, UK. The purpose of this visit was to prepare RIGI students for […]
The Bangalore-based S.V. EduSports Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2009) which provides sports and fitness education to over 300,000 students in 400 K-12 schools countrywide, launched a new integrated sports education programme on March 4. Christened MILES, the programme is designed to develop the sports, social and emotional skills of children in class VI upwards.
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