News 18 – Online

The NEP lists certain key principles as the foundation of the educational policy. It acknowledges that each child is unique and the need for teachers and parents to provide the space and freedom to discover, identify, and develop their inherent skills and capabilities. This enhances the personal learning journey of the children; centred around their interests.

The Times of India – Online

The Covid lockdown paved way for online learning in a big way. An assessment of overall performance of seven elearning applications widely used across the country by the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow shows that for 66.1% users the overall quality of App is of atmost importance followed by class experience which 15.3% users feel is valuable.

The Times of India – Online

The central governments New Education Policy (NEP) talks about allowing students to choose coding lessons in schools, starting from Standard VI. While experts believe it to be a positive move, state minister for school education has stated on social media that there are no plans to making coding a compulsory subject in schools.

The Times of India – Print (Delhi)

Kavya Kothari used to like going to school. But the six-year-old absolutely loves ‘zooming’ into virtual school. While earlier her twin sister Krisha and the other kids would run to their classrooms from the school’s main gate, Kavya, who has a congenital spinal defect and can’t walk, had to be wheeled inside on a pram.

The Times of India – Print (Delhi Mumbai Bangalore Pune)

Learning outcomes, or goals or standards, are a set of skills a student should master by the end of an academic year. These are not synonymous to projects or test scores. So, instead of monitoring time spent on Zoom, focus on the skills students need to learn.

Business World – Online

Emerging slowly but surely as the next wave of Indian export is Edtech. There are now numerous edtech firms in India, with many of them becoming global names (Simplilearn and Byju, to name a couple). We can leverage this national strength with the fact that learning is no longer an event its an ongoing process.

ANI – Online

Sequoia, an investor in startups like Byjus, Zomato and DailyHunt launched a community programme to bring founders of their portfolio companies together on a regular basis to share their experiences.

Inc 42 – Online

Are edtech startups going too far with their fear tactics in marketing campaigns and ads?

Inc 42 – Online

The government has reportedly chosen not to mandate a secondary listing in India for domestic firms which choose to list in overseas bourses. Several Indian startups, as well as venture capital and investment firms, have long argued in favour of a provision that would allow Indian startups to directly list overseas (byju).

Deccan Herald – Online

Overall, online education startups raised over $1.5 billion since the onset of pandemic. Three Bengalurubased EdTech platforms Unacademy, Vedantu and Embibe raised about $335 million, while Byjus has raised $1.1 billion since January this year.

Tentaran – Online

Unacademy, an Edutech platform said the company will undertake an ESOP buyback programme of Rs 2530 crores in December this year. To bolster its cash reserves at a time when the food delivery sector is rebounding from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, Zomato has raised $52 million from US fund Kora Investments.

The Indian Express – Online | Print (Delhi Mumbai Kolkata)

Among the eight funding rounds of $100 million and above in Indian start-ups during April-September, five involved ed-tech companies like Byju’s, Vedantu, Unacademy and Eruditus. According to data sourced from Venture Intelligence, one-third of the $1.5 billion raised in these eight investment rounds was by Byju’s.