Competition
upGrads CEO Arjun Mohan on company’s performance in 2020edit
Times Now News – Online Web
On StartUp Central today, we have upGrad’s India CEO Arjun Mohan taking the hot seat. Edtech has been the big winner of 2020 as online learning platform upGrad doubled its user base in the pandemic year.
Learning in mother tongue will help kids grasp better, stay rooted’edit
The Times of India – Online Web
Addressing the concern, Education Minister Ramesh Pohkriyal Nishank at a panel discussion on the NEP, organised as part of the Keep Learning programme, an initiative of The Times of India, powered by BYJU’s, said a study of the synergistic effect — language acquisition, cultural understanding and scholastic ability — and scientific reasoning has led to the mother tongue being proposed as the medium of instruction for primary classes.
Drive into the New Year with Vamsi Krishna: Vedantu cofounder curious about future of online educationedit
Your Story – Online Web
For Bengaluru-based edtech startup Vedantu, 2020 was transformative in multiple ways, says Cofounder and CEO Vamsi Krishna in a conversation with YS Weekender for the series Drive into the New Year. Earlier this year, Vedantu recorded more than 1,50,000 students study real time on its live online learning platform.
KCL group students felicitatededit
The Tribune – Online Web
Manpreet got selected in BYJUs at a pay package of Rs10 lakh. Hitesh and Barun got selected in Cogniter Technologies and Advance Solution and Mamta got selected in Impinge Solutions. The college department has been continuously enhancing the skills of the students through their short term employability enhancement programme.
Byju’s Young Genius, children who won the battle with mind and passion, on News18 from 16 Januaryedit
Hindi News 18 – Online Web
Byju’s Young Genius, children who won the battle with mind and passion, on News18 from 16 January Byju’s Young Genius, children who won the battle with mind and passion, on News18 from 16 January Know the happy story of Mumbai, who was 15 years old, who did two world records
The argument over Kids learning to Codeedit
News track live – Online Web
The Pandemic outbreak which transformed the offline classes to online, faceless screen triggered the Kids coding. Karan Bajaj, an Indian entrepreneur, has already signed a $300 million deal to sell his company named WhiteHat Jr. to Byju’s, the world’s largest technology-based educational company.
BYJU’S names Dhimant Vyas as Chief Creative Directoredit
Exchange 4 Media – Online Web
BYJU’S, today announced the appointment of Dhimant Vyas as Chief Creative Director. As Chief Creative Director, Dhimant will be responsible for leading ideation and creation of quality interactive learning experiences for our students across products. His focus will be to build and further enhance our offerings.
Industry
For online classes minus bandwidth challengesedit
The New Indian Express – Online Web
ZERMELO Technologies, an award-winning edtech startup announced that its platform ZeClassroom has been designed to conduct online classes in the rural and urban areas where internet and bandwidth availability is a challenge.
Hurt by financial instability, many Indians will choose public schools over private schools in 2021edit
Scroll – Online Web
Schools in India should prepare for a gradual reopening, experts told us. Younger children should be the first to go back to school as early learning is important to build on in the future years. Teachers would have to understand the level children are at, reteach core concepts as well as parts of the 2020 coursework before they start on the 2021 syllabus, they told us.
Edtech in 2021: How e-learning will move beyond the K12 segment for startups in the post-Covid yearedit
Bolly Inside – Online Web
The Covid pandemic was nothing less than a turning point for the electronics technology industry. The Indian edtech market is estimated to reach $ 3.5 billion by 2022. In the coming years, however, edtech will no longer be limited to the K12 space but will go beyond the K12 and will include skills development and learning management systems.
Indian Investor, Entrepreneur Lloyd Jude to launch 1.2million USD EdTech Company EDBUSedit
The Week – Online Web
Talking about his new Edtech venture, Lloyd says, Edbus is hiring top faculties from premier institutions like Kota, Hyderabad etc where students will get a chance to get the best quality education from anywhere across the globe.