The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on March 30 announced that more than one lakh internship opportunities would be provided by reputed companies like Salesforce, CISCO, Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE) and RSB Transmission India Limited. This was announced by the Skills & Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a virtual meeting in New Delhi. AICTE has created its Internship Portal (https://internship.aicte-india.org) to …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and SuperBloom Studios, a Business Consultancy Firm, are launching an initiative called ‘Hidden Voices’ to reduce the Gender Data Gap in Digital Sources. Partnering with IITM Alumni Association this initiative is starting with Wikipedia. The initiative founders have set a goal of auto-generating biographies of several notable women within the next year, …

Leading K12 school chain Orchids – The International School on March 24 announced the winner of the first-ever nationwide Online Inter-School Singing Contest – Indian Singers League (ISL).  Celebrated virtuosi Hariharan and Shaan were the judges of the nationwide virtual competition and selected the top three from north and south regions.   South City Winner Name School Name Age 1st Chennai Arjun.s …

The academic year 2022-2023 admission in UG (undergraduate) programs in all UGC funded Central Universities will be through the Common University Entrance Test (#CUET) to be conducted by NTA. State and private universities encouraged to use CUET for admissions Moving towards a sort of ‘one-nation, one entrance test’ for higher education degree programs or more correctly  on the pattern SAT …

Coimbatore-based Bharathiar University will now be able to offer a a wide range of disciplinary courses in business analytics accredited by the Institute of Analytics (IoA) after it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Skill Development Corporation (ISDC). The MoU was signed between Dr. Rupa Gunaseelan, Professor  & Director, BSMED, Bharathiar University, and Shone Babu, Head of …

Indian Space Research Organisation is organising a special programme for School Children called “Young Scientist Programme” “YUva VIgyani KAryakram”, YUVIKA, has announced registrations for this year. The programme aims to select 150 students across the country, who are studying in class IX as on March 01, 2022 in a school located within the territory of India. The YUVIKA – 2022 residential programme …