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Does Your Career Need Upskilling Here’s How to Start Babson Thought & Actionedit
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Paulson and Sosnowski suggest online courses, access to LinkedIn Learning, and a host of online providers offering free courses such as Codecademy, Coursera, EdX, Khan Academy, Stanford Online, and Udemy.
Former Teacher Joins Top Education Franchise by Opening Kumon Math and Reading Center of Harlingenedit
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Rama’s background in education and her passion for developing her students made her a great candidate to become a Kumon Franchisee. When she reached out for more information on opening her own center, she was met with an extensive network of support. In addition, Kumon offers up to $36,000 in startup cost for new franchisees.
Exclusive: Decoding Unacademy’s Series G roundedit
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While Byju’s mopped up about $1.2 billion in total funding in 2020, Unacademy has cornered close to $350 million across three rounds. Last week, the Gaurav Munjal-led firm had announced to receive an undisclosed round from Tiger Global and Dragoneer.
Edtech’s odd man out bets on long-term growthedit
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Towards the end of June, the giant in the space, Byju’s, announced that it was going to offer online live tutoring. It also launched many of its learning products in vernacular languages. Recently, upGrad bought Gate Academy and made a foray into the test preparation segment. Vedantu, Toppr and others have made similar forays post lockdown.
Byju Raveendran, the A Student in Online Ededit
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are backing his vision, driving Byju’s valuation from $8 billion in January to $12 billion in October
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The edtech startup that raised USD 265 million in Series Cedit
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This is a preview. Sign up here for our free subscription program and receive Chinas VC/Startup ecosystem newsletters, Chinese market and industry reports, and invites to exclusive closed-door events. Key trends we observed An increase in investment activity was observed in the week of 22 29 November.
The 4 best apps for learning a language just went on saleedit
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Whatever your reason, there’s no need to take classes with an expensive tutor. These four incredible apps will help you learn the language(s) of your choice in record time. Plus, were offering these highly rated apps at their lowest prices all season. Be sure to snag these lifetime subscriptions while they’re still available.
Pandemic Threatens to Push 72 Million More Children into Learning Poverty World Bank outlines a New Vision to ensure that every child learns, everywhereedit
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Throughout the five pillars, countries can effectively harness the power of education technology or EdTech, encompassing hardware, software, digital content, data, and information systems to support and enrich teaching and learning and improve education management and delivery.
India’s iSchoolConnect Among Selected 94 Tech Startups to Advance to Regionals of Seedstars World Competition 2020edit
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EdTech startups iSchoolConnect (India), providing optimized admissions systems, and ELN Limited (Pakistan), offering online vocational training, serve as timely solutions for today’s online educational shift.
eduTinker Launches Teacher-Student Management Appedit
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eduTinker, an Edtech startup, has recently launched its revolutionary app to automate the physical classroom activities and drive efficiency in the era of remote learning. Developed with an idea to provide comprehensive students activity management platform, the app is the ones top solution that makes it convenient for teachers to make all class-related communication available on a single platform.
Edtech Startup Debugs-Bunny Raised Rs 1.4 Cr. Angel Funding Led by India Angel Fundedit
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Debugs-Bunny News Summary Debugs-Bunny, the Edutech startup, that is making online coding classes accessible and affordable for students across age groups, today announced that it has completed a Rs 1.4 Cr. angel round of financing.
Edtech player Great Learning scouts for startups in inorganic growth pushedit
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With inorganic growth becoming the flavour of the season in the edtech space, online professional course provider Great Learning is scouting for startups in the higher education space that would add value to the company’s offerings.
Edtech firm Educational Initiatives looks to achieve steady growthedit
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Srini Raghavan, co-founder and chief executive of edtech firm Educational Initiatives (EI), says his company’s revenue in financial year 2020-21 is expected to come in at Rs 84 crore, significantly lower than its target of Rs 120 crore, because of the impact of Covid-19. Raghavan’s firm might be the only one in the edtech space to admit to a lowering of revenue due to Covid-19.