Turnitin, a leading edtech company has launched a comprehensive academic integrity solution called Turnitin Originality that combines the text similarity checking functionality such as contract cheating and teach students the value of original thinking skills.  Turnitin Originality uses comprehensive technology to help deter unoriginal work and support students in learning how to properly attribute ideas and concepts to others. When …

As part of its ongoing efforts to promote skilling as a national priority, NASSCOM FutureSkills and Microsoft have joined hands to launch a nation-wide AI skilling initiative. The initiative aims to skill 1 million students in AI by 2021. The collaboration will provide Microsoft’s AI, machine learning and data science expertise to students through easy to consume modules including live …

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, in collaboration with  education company WileyNXT will launch three executive programs- Advanced Management Certification in Transforming Customer Experience with AI and Design, Advanced Management Certification in Blockchain and AI for Fintech and Advanced Management Certification in Services & Supply Chain Transformation.  Each program is targeted at the professionals in the domain of Technology, Data, …

By Rajat Mukherjee and Monika Srivastava 5+3+3+4 will replace 10+2. This isn’t math magic. But a change in the framework of India’s school education proposed by the new National Education Policy. The ‘5’ in the proposed new framework includes two years of pre-schooling. The unmissable impact of this reconfiguration is that the previously unregulated (debatable, as discussed below) pre-school segment …

By Tulsi Bhatia, Principal The time to open the doors of the school to welcome them back has come! And with this the responsibility of schools to ensure a safe environment, has also become sacred, more so in a fully residential school like ours.   Students will be asked to report in a staggered manner. The first batch to arrive will …

Admissions to medical degree courses in Mahrashtra based on 70% regional quota and 30% state level quota system has been scrapped. There will be a “One Maharashtra, One Merit” medical admission process, as announced by the Minister of Medical Education Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh in the Assembly. Accordingly, notification in this regard has been issued on 4 September 2020 to change …