Competition
upGrad creates UK board with four prominent figures in global educationedit
Live Mint Business wire India – Online Web
upGrad, India’s largest higher edtech company, announced the appointment of a four member independent board to build their UK-based operations and accelerate expansion. The board comprises distinguished leaders such as Professor Sir Deian Hopkin, Julie Mercer, Dr. Kishore Sengupta, and Ashwin Assomull.
The Startup Insurgenceedit
Goa chronicle – Online Web
Byju’s has been one of India’s most successful startups which has even been sponsoring the Indian cricket team and competing with giants like Star and Nike for the same. The success stories of such startups are inspiring the next generation to put their foot out and create something which they can call their brainchild.
Some edtech companies are misleading customers: Education Ministryedit
Careers 360 – Online Web
The ministry of education has accepted in Parliament that some edtech companies have resorted to airing inappropriate advertisements and misleading the customers. Recently, WhiteHat Jr, the edtech company that teaches coding to children, had such charges levelled against it.
Edtech: Vedantu delivers 75 million hours of content to learners in 2020 The Economic Timesedit
The Economic Times – Online Web
Edtech platform Vedantu on Wednesday said it has delivered 75 million hours of content to students across its platform in 2020. The company’s YouTube channel saw a 9X growth with yearly views of 510 million hours making it one of the largest YouTube platforms for K12, the company said in a press release.
Industry
upGrad creates UK board with four prominent figures in global educationedit
Live Mint Business wire India – Online Web
upGrad, India’s largest higher edtech company, announced the appointment of a four member independent board to build their UK-based operations and accelerate expansion. The board comprises distinguished leaders such as Professor Sir Deian Hopkin, Julie Mercer, Dr. Kishore Sengupta, and Ashwin Assomull.
Technology In Education: Still A Quick Fix Or Moving Towards Becoming A Habitedit
Business World – Online Web
Edtech has the potential to eliminate the inequities in the existing system of education in India. The idea of a new normal suggests that the pre-pandemic normal was old. Old, outdated, and out of sync with the changing realities of a digital first age.
Morphose Capital Partners Secures Funding for Sherpas Online Tutoring Platformedit
IT News Online – Online Web
Morphose Capital Partners, London-based specialists in Mergers and Acquisitions, corporate restructuring and finance, has secured a second six-figure investment for EdTech sector Sherpas online tutoring platform. UK-based Sherpa is an exciting new platform providing interactive online one-to-one tuition for learners of all levels.
Education today needs more funds, not lessedit
The Statesman – Delhi The Statesman – Kolkata
Realizing the desired emphasis on digitisation and virtual teaching- learning, a higher spend on education is desirable to upgrade digital infra- structure. Getting private sector spending may be a plausible solution.
Covid19: Opportunities, challenges and growth for the edtech sectoredit
Hindustan Times – Online Web
Few events in recent history have caused as much disruption, across spheres, as Covid19. This rupture was most acutely felt in the realm of education. While ecommerce took seven years to pick momentum in India and billions of dollars to change consumer behaviour, this occurred almost overnight for the education technology (edtech) sector.