Entrepreneur – Online Web

Explaining the two-pronged objective, the founder and CEO says: “In India, nearly 85 percent population earns below INR 8 lakh annual income, yet expenses of a private school, which fare better in terms of quality education, of a single child have risen from INR 55,000 in 2005 to INR 1.25 lakh in 2015. Limited access to quality education in India has led to a surge in tuition culture, which accounts for 15 percent of the total expenditure on private education and about 12 percent of the average family income going towards tuitions.” Eduauraa is trying to close this gap by providing the best quality education at affordable price points so that every child gets a ...

India Today – Online Web

Teja’s, an innovative teacher training project delivered by the British Council in association with Tata Trusts and the Maharashtra State Government, has reached its successful completion. The project that set out to benefit primary school teachers and students across government schools in Maharashtra through improved English language proficiency, has been successful in achieving its goals.

Telangana Today – Online Web

Startups working in the online space like edtech, fintech and others had newer options opening up. The lockdown opened up new avenues for online content delivery platforms and in the new normal people got acclimatised to online classes and that has helped startups who are in the edtech space launch content online.

Biospectrum Asia – Online Web

The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced new initiatives to empower students with cloud computing skills and enable entrepreneurs to build innovative education technology (EdTech) solutions on the cloud.

India Education Diary – Online Web

Scaler, a leading edtech startup for upskilling students and working professionals, has announced plans to vaccinate all its employees and their immediate family members as part of a workplace wellness initiative.

CIOL – Online Web

A new age concept aligned to Gig Economy, COHIRE is custom-built to work for young companies looking to scale-up fast on low cash burns. It is to people what co-work is to spaces. Here startups/SMEs/ Companies can hire C-Level managers on a shared basis. Thus, they can enjoy the full benefits of a proven CXO at a divided cost. The concept is founded on the belief that top talent is hard to get. By enabling it to be shared (or Co-Hired) this concept simply maximizes the availability and accessibility of such talent.

Afaqs – Online Web

Star Sports, India’s leading sports broadcaster, has begun the countdown to VIVO IPL on a strong note with 14 sponsors already on board for this season. The broadcaster announced Dream11, Byjus, Phone Pe, Just Dial, Bingo, Kamla Pasand, AMFI, Frooti, Asian Paints, Thums Up, Vodafone-Idea, Mondelez, Amazon Prime, and Groww as sponsors a fortnight before the tournament.

Live Mint – Online Web

Elevation Capital, earlier known as SAIF Partners, has tied up with San-Francisco-headquartered Think Investments LLC to float blank check company called Think Elevation Capital Growth Opportunity, focused on Indian technology companies looking to list in the US. Elevation Capital has invested more than $1.5 billion in capital in over 125 companies as of December, such as Paytm, Makemytrip, Swiggy, Justdial, FirstCry, Meesho, ShareChat, NoBroker, Unacademy and Urban Company.

Analytics Insight – Online Web

There are several AI applications in education. Both teachers and students profit from the innovation. The education industry will benefit from AI in a number of ways. Byju’s, Vedantu like e-learning sites, in particular, are offering educational institutions a competitive advantage. It has introduced artificial intelligence (AI) e-learning software to connect with students and has more customized tutorials.