Amazon India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to extend its initiative, Amazon WoW (Women of the World) across the country. This innovative program is designed to empower and equip women students enrolled in engineering colleges across India with essential skills to thrive in the technology industry. The collaboration agreement …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is partnering with Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to offer a MD-PhD Dual Degree program. Under this partnership the postgraduate medical degree will be awarded by SRIHER and a PhD degree by the Department of Medical Sciences and Technology of IIT Madras. This partnership will concentrate on core clinical, interdisciplinary, …

Trailhead, Salesforce’s free online learning platform, is to skill 1,00,000 students in the next three years (by 2026) following a MoU between Salesforce and the Union Ministry of Education. .  According to Govind Jaiswal, Joint Secretary, Department of Higher Education, MoE, the Department of Higher Education has decided to offer industry-related courses on the SWAYAM platform in collaboration with Salesforce …

As a key higher education reform under NEP 2020, the University Grants Commission (UGC) in May this year formally notified the National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF). The new framework for the first time has paved the way for Four-year Undergraduate (degree)Programme in India and as per latest reports over 100 other varsities including Delhi University and Visva Bharati University …

The Day My Dad Arrives maker Sreeram Jayaram, a student of the Communication Design department (2019-23), The Indian Institute of Art & Design (IIAD), Mumbai has been announced as the winner of the Animation Xpress ANN Award for the Best Student Film (Animation) in Mumbai. “The Day My Dad Arrives,” is a labour of love, meticulously constructed frame by frame …

Teachers from many leading schools across the nation joined hands on Children’s Day, uniting against the spread of misinformation on e-cigarettes such as vaping devices and heat-not-burn products with specific focus on protecting Indian school going children. These ‘Teachers Against Vaping’ have written a letter to Union Education & Skills Minister Dharmendra Pradhan demanding institutionalization of communication programmes to raise …