Sumit Kumar is the New Delhi-based Chief Strategy Officer of TeamLease Degree Apprenticeship (TLDA, estb.2014; headcount: 1,000), a constituent firm of TeamLease Services Ltd, the country’s premier personnel placements company which places skilled technicians including accountants, data entry/back office, BPO/customer care, front office/receptionists, hospitality managers, chefs, chauffeurs etc in […]
Brinda Poornapragna is the CEO of Bengaluru-based not-for-profit eVidyaloka, promoted under the aegis of eVidyaloka Trust and co-founded by former Microsoft India professionals Satish Vaidyanathan and Venkat Sriraman in 2011. Entirely funded by individual and CSR (corporate social responsibility) donations, eVidyaloka connects volunteering and digital […]
Government teachers from rural Punjab — Pankaj Kumar Goyal and Rajinder Singh — are recipients of the National Teachers Awards 2024 of the Union education ministry.
Newspeg. On the occasion of Teachers Day (September 5), President Droupadi Murmu conferred certificates and Rs.50,000 cash prizes on Goyal of the […]
Tomalin (left) with founder Abhishek Gupta (right): whole person education promise
Dominic Tomalin is the founding headmaster of Shrewsbury International School India (SISI), assuming shape and form on a sprawling 150-acre campus in Bhopal, the admin capital of Madhya Pradesh (pop.80 million).
SISI is the outcome of an ambitious collaboration agreement between two education […]
Serial entrepreneur Rohan Rai is the Bengaluru-based co-founder of his latest offering Edupull (estb 2023), an edtech company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to provide class XII school-leavers and undergrads customised roadmaps and career pathways in multiple Indian languages free-of-charge to enable them to make informed higher education choices. About 25,000 students […]
Brinda Poornapragna is the articulate Bengaluru-based CEO of a not for profit organisation called eVidyaloka (estb. 2011. headcount: 75) which leverages technology to provide supplementary education in eight vernacular languages to class V-X government school children in rural and remote corners of India supported by a network of 6,340 global teacher-volunteers and an ecosystem of […]
Amit Saxena is CEO of the education vertical of the Delhi-based Sparsh Group, a widely diversified business conglomerate with interests in polyester films, packaging, hospitality, and renewable energy. The group currently runs four K-12 schools in Delhi-NCR — Sparsh Global and JP International schools in Greater Noida, […]
Kolkata-based entrepreneur Manish Mohta is founder-director of edtech company Learning Spiral Pvt. Ltd (LSPL, estb.2019, headcount: 125) — a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kolkata-based Mohta Group of companies with interests in steel, power, copper, chemicals, and plastics (annual turnover: Rs.300 crore). Promoted five years ago, LSPL offers […]
Dr. Suneel Thummala is founder-director of the newly promoted greenfield The School of Raya (TSOR, estb.2023), Bengaluru. Sited on a nine-acre campus in Dasanayakanahalli, a suburb of the garden city, TSOR, distinguished by its unique architecture of six circular buildings with green terraces and […]
Shriyans Bhandari, director of the CBSE and Cambridge (UK)-affiliated K-12 Heritage Girls School, Udaipur (HGS, estb.2014), has invested his several extra-curricular passions and noteworthy achievements in ornithology, photography (A Photographic Guide to Some Common Birds of Aravallis (2013)) and athletics into the curriculum of his relatively […]
Balu Ramachandran is founder-promoter of the Bengaluru-based Omnicuris Academy Pvt. Ltd (OCA, estb. 2023), an online edtech platform providing a wide range of programmes to medical practitioners to contemporise their knowledge and upskill their practice of healing sciences. Within one year since OCA’s promotion, 2,200 medical practitioners countrywide have […]
Claudio Maffioletti is the Mumbai-based CEO and Secretary General of the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IICCI, estb.1966), an association of 750 companies and professionals promoting trade and economic collaboration between India and Italy.
Newspeg. Maffioletti was in Bengaluru on March 28 to inaugurate IICCI’s southern region office in […]
Gurugram-based entrepreneur Nirmal Singh is co-founder-CEO of Wheebox (estb.2011), a subsidiary of the US-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) — a global provider of AI-integrated proctored online assessment services to measure the competencies and skills of shortlisted job applicants for industry and business enterprises. Over the past 13 […]
Tanmay Mondal is trustee of Kolotan (‘song of birds’), a North 24 Parganas-based trust which runs an English/Bengali-medium nursery-class V low-fees private school for 81 first generation learners, including 25 girl children from poor households. Promoted in 2018 by a group of young education enthusiasts — Tapas Mondal […]
Ashutosh Burnwal is Founder-CEO of Buddy4Study.com, a scholarships aggregator firm promoted by the Noida-based Smiling Star Advisory Pvt. Ltd. Moreover, he is director of Buddy4Study Foundation and Mentor of Change, the Atal Innovation Mission of Niti Aayog since 2020.
Established in 2011, Buddy4Study.com is an online platform that aggregates information […]
Provost of the reputed Bengaluru-based multidisciplinary CMR University (CMRU), an institution awarded private university status by special legislation of the Karnataka state government in 2013, Dr. Tristha Ramamurthy is also founder-director of the Bengaluru-based Ekya Schools — a chain of five K-12 progressive schools. CMRU with its constituent technology, business management, law and […]
Kali Prasad Gadiraju is chairman of the Hyderabad-based EThames College (estb.2009) affiliated with Osmania University which offers three undergrad programmes (BBA, B.Com and BCA) to upskill students to make them industry-ready and secure well-paid employment.
Newspeg. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, on February 19, Gadiraju launched the EThames Global School […]
Co-founder of the Kolkata-based PS Group of Companies with interests in real estate, Pradip Chopra is also chairman of the Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship & Development (iLEAD, estb.2010) — a CSR initiative of the PS Group — established with a capital outlay of Rs.50 crore and built […]
Corporate captain turned philanthropist Vineet Nayar is founder-chairman of the Noida-based Sampark Foundation (estb.2005), an NGO working towards improving learning outcomes in government primary schools in eight states across the country. Over the past 18 years since it was registered, the foundation has positively impacted 10.49 million […]
Ravi Sonnad is a highly qualified social entrepreneur with over three decades of transnational business experience and currently founder-director of the Singapore-based Enabling Leadership Foundation (ELF). The objective of ELF, which has a headcount of 80 full-time employees and 200 part-time faculty, is to develop leadership […]
Edupreneur Mohit Patel is founder-director of the Cambridge (UK)-affiliated The Northstar School, Rajkot (TNS, estb. 2016) — promoted by the family-run Talaviya Trust which also manages RK University. Patel believes TNS is redefining education through innovative pedagogies centred on experiential learning, self-discovery, and strong connect with the environment.
A polymath alum of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IIT-Delhi and professor at the high-ranked IIT-Delhi for over three decades (1978-2014), Dr. Bishnu Pal is Founder-Dean of the Ecole Central School of Engineering (ECSE) of the new age, multi-disciplinary Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Promoted by the Mumbai-based Mahindra Group, the well-known heavyweight in automotives (Mahindra & […]
A polymath alum of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and IIT-Delhi and Professor at the high-ranked IIT-Delhi for over three decades (1978-2014), Dr. Bishnu Pal is the founder-Dean of the Ecole Central School of Engineering (ECSE) of the new age multi-disciplinary Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Promoted by the Mumbai-based Mahindra Group, the well-known heavyweight in automotives (Mahindra […]
Finland-born Olli Pekka Heinonen is Director-General of the globally respected Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB, estb.1968) examinations board which offers Primary and Middle Years curriculums, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) school-leaving examinations written by higher secondary students worldwide.
Gurugram-based Umang Sangal (28) is the founder-promoter of Uplifters Academy Pvt. Ltd, a mint new edtech company (estb.2023), offering skills training programmes and guidance through live online classes which has got off to a flying start. Uplifters is targeting pre and final year undergrads and working professionals in Tier […]
Eminent social worker A.K. Basu is the secretary of Tollygunge Women In Need (TWIN, estb.1995), the Kolkata counterpart of Belgium-based non-profit TWIN-Satyagraha. The parent organisation was founded by a Belgian couple Dr. Marie Paule Baudot, and Josef (Tor) Mutton in 1995. For over two decades, TWIN Kolkata’s annual budget […]
Rahul Subramaniam and Poshak Agarwal are co-founders of Athenaeum Jupiter Pvt. Ltd (AJP, estb.2013), a Gurugram-based study abroad coaching-cum-consultancy facilitating student undergrad admissions into premier universities in 11 countries including the US, UK, and Canada under its brand Athena Education. Currently, AJP has one coaching centre […]
Annick Renaud-Coulon is a transnational expert on corporate universities and the Paris-based Founder and Chairwoman of the Global Council of Corporate Universities (GlobalCCU). She defines corporate universities as “educational structures based in private and public, commercial and non-commercial organisations, to implement the business strategies of the organisation and to […]
Professor Dame Heather McGregor is Provost and Vice Principal of the vintage Heriot-Watt University (HWU, estb.1821), Edinburgh’s Dubai campus, which has 4,500 undergrad, postgrad and doctoral students on its muster rolls.
Newspeg. Prof. Heather was in Bengaluru on April 26-27 to further enhance this Scottish university’s profile and visibility among […]
Preeti Bhandary is co-founder of Learning Edge India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru. The company is franchisor of the 130-strong chain of Little Elly preschools in India and two overseas (Kathmandu, Seattle), which provide early childhood care and education (ECCE) to children aged six months-5-years.
Kochhar (left) & Chawla: top level global endorsement
Yogesh Kochhar, an arts and business management postgrad of Punjab University and the American Graduate University (Miami), and Harvansh Chawla, an alum of Delhi University and a Supreme Court lawyer of 25 years standing, are co-founders of the YOL (YourOneLife) Foundation, Dharamshala (YOLF, estb.2019). […]
Dr. Amrita Rajpal is founder of Edu Learrn Grow (ELG, estb.2019), a Mumbai-based education consultancy which provides well-researched curriculums, teacher development programmes, schools promotion and franchising solutions for the early childhood care and education (ECCE) sector. She is also co-founder of The ABCD Show, an online platform where […]
Schröder (centre) in EW Bangalore office: cutting-edge German technology offer
In the provision of education services and attracting students from abroad, the Federal Republic of Germany (pop. 85 million) — Europe’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced country — is an also-ran despite higher education being provided almost free of charge to all, […]
Pennsylvania (USA)-based Barbara ‘Bobbi’ KurshAn is senior innovations advisor of the UPenn Graduate School of Education’s Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate program. According to her, this is a pioneer online program for education leaders, administrators, edupreneurs, researchers and investors.
Newspeg. Last December, Kurshan was in Bengaluru to lead a two-day Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conclave […]
Sneha Biswas is founder-CEO of the Bengaluru-based Early Steps Academy Pvt. Ltd (ESA, estb.2021). ESA is an ambitious education start-up that offers a unique after-school online programme modeled on Harvard-style case studies to children in the 8-18 years age group worldwide.
Backed by marquee global investors including Beenext (Singapore) and Taurus Ventures (US), […]
Varun Jain is founder-CEO of the Bangalore-based Miles Education Pvt. Ltd (ME, estb.2011, head count: 600). Miles Ed is an an edtech company that provides undergrads and working professionals training — in hybrid mode — to acquire globally accepted accounting certification (CPA, CMA, CFA, FRM) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants […]
Ratna Viswanathan is the Gurugram-based CEO of Reach to Teach (RTT, estb.2007), a social impact organisation. “RTT is a UK registered charity and has been supported in its work by The Larry Ellison Foundation since 2007,” says Viswanathan.
The social impact organisation had an organizational shift to India in 2020 to focus on RTT’s […]
With American disenchantment with communist China growing by the day, America’s top-ranked universities are increasingly looking towards India — which currently hosts the world’s largest child and youth population — for students and academic collaboration partnerships. Suddenly American academics have discovered that the English language skills of Indian students and relative autonomy of […]
Delhi-based DIYA BADGEL is the new India director of the AFS Intercultural Programs. Promoted in 1915 as the American Field Service (AFS), currently AFS is a US-based non-profit organisation providing multinational exchange programmes for children and young adults to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding required to create a more just and peaceful […]
Hitherto principal of the Chaoyang Kaiwen Academy, Beijing (China), ANDREW LEALE is founding-headmaster of the Harrow International School, Bengaluru (HISB) which is under construction on a 30-acre campus in Devanahalli, a suburb of the garden city (pop.10 million). HISB is the outcome of a collaboration agreement between two heavyweights — the Delhi-based Amity […]
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