FICCI ARISE (Alliance for Re-imagining School Education), an initiative of FCCI,  in collaboration with Highr, is organising a series of webinars for education practitioners (teachers and others) to present best and innovative pedagogical practices adopted by the schools in effectively delivering teaching learning in the virtual environments. This webinar series for remote schooling- ‘Teaching for the New Normal’ would be held from May …

‘Tech Talk’, the new series of online conversations with world’s top scholars, thought leaders and experts started by Plaksha University, Gurugram will be available for free online to interested students. The second session is scheduled to go live on May 2, 2020 with Dr. Rajeev Barua, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor at the University of Maryland and Founder & CEO, …

Distance education is a method which has been used since the 1840s. At first, it involved correspondences via post and after the computer revolution in the 20th century, e-learning has almost emerged as a new way to education and personal growth it has evolved to online learning. And now with COVID-19 pandemic, it has become a necessity and a catalyzer …

For existing students, the session may begin in August, PHD students will get six month extension while as  pending Semester exams will take place in July only in non containment zones The academic session in universities and higher educational institutions can be started from September instead of July in view of the COVID-19 situation in the country, a panel appointed …

Upcoming Bengaluru-based Atria University, backed by South-India based Atria Group, has launched an interactive online series where some of the world’s most innovative thought leaders introduce cutting-edge technologies to aspiring students. Renowned global experts, including a Guinness World Record holder and paper airplane expert, John Collins, popularly known as ‘the Paper Airplane Guy’ and the founder of the world’s best affordable, bi-directional, …

upGrad, online education company in association with FICCI has brought out a whitepaper on the “High-Impact Online Learning at Scale” wherein 87% respondents opine that reskilling is preferred over hiring anew. That reskilling existing employees is always more economical than hiring new ones was  something respondents of upGrad’s 2020 industry-leading survey of Learning & Development (L&D) and business leaders agreed in large …