A ‘one-stop’ solution for career discovery  & skilling courses for graduates, working professionals and students , a kind of integrated marketplace for EdTech solutions ‘SKILL MONKS’ has announced its official launch. Brainchild of Rameswar Mandali, a serial entrepreneur the new online store aims to to connect customers and training partners under one roof. Mandal said ‘During my entrepreneurial journey, I have spent a …

Jaipuria School of Business, Ghaziabad that offers post graduate management  programmes has diversified into teacher training and announced  launch of a teacher education academy called Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR).  The new vertical envisaged to become a full-fledged institute for offering mainly customized training at institutional level will be inaugurated on July 15 by the deputy Chief Minister …

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in collaboration with WileyNXT, has announced the launch of AI in Banking Programme,  India’s first-of-its-kind online programme made for existing as well as recently-graduated technology and finance professionals, who aspire to build a career in AI and analytics in the banking domain. The 4-month programme will focus on training IT professionals and graduates to …

IIT Alumni Council today announced a MegaTx initiative to identify, optimise and indigenously manufacture biotherapeutics for the treatment of C19. The Council has proposed a two stage process. The expeditious pathway will be using antibodies harvested from human plasma collected through blood donation camps that seek donors who have recovered from C19. The subsequent stage involves identification and characterisation of …

With the objective of ensuring online well-being of students and preparing them for the future of work, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and Facebook are launching a comprehensive curriculum on Digital Safety & Online Well-being and Augmented Reality (AR). The modules are for secondary school students. The curriculum is now available on the CBSE website http://cbseacademic.nic.in/fb/FacebookForEducation.html. This partnership is led …

According to a leading expert in the field of cognitive neuroscience from Harvard, what matters in screen time is the content that is consumed and the context of it that affects one’s well-being. It is also imperative to make a distinction between productive and unproductive screen time. Screen time where an adult is on the other side engaging children in …