Great Learning, a leading global edtech company, has unveiled its fourth annual ‘Upskilling Trends Report 2025–26’, based on a survey of over 1,000 professionals across India. The report highlights a significant rebound in job confidence, with 73% of professionals expressing confidence in retaining their jobs this year—an 11 percentage point increase from the previous year. Confidence is notably higher among …

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur’s Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC), in partnership with SBI Foundation, the CSR arm of the State Bank of India, are launching the ‘Startup Innovations for Social Good’ initiative under SBIF Innovators for Bharat. The initiative is also being supported by SBI DFHI Limited and SBI Ventures. The program, announced on June 5 at an event held …

On the occasion World Environment Day, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, India’s premier multidisciplinary research university celebrates its appointment as a Global Co-Chair for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: Clean Water and Sanitation by the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). The appointment places the university among 20 eminent institutions worldwide recognized for their outstanding contributions to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Selected …

A team representing BharatGen from The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has launched Patram-7B-Instruct, India’s first vision-language foundational model built from scratch for complex document understanding tasks. BharatGen is a Government supported initiative for developing India-centric Multimodal Large Language Models. Patram is part of BharatGen suite of Multimodal Large Language Models being …

Education’s critical role in the Australia-India relationship took centre stage at a high-level forum hosted at the University of Melbourne’s Global Centre in Delhi on June 4. The event, led by Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles MP, brought together 50 education and government leaders from both countries to mark the fifth anniversary of the Australia-India …

By Shilpa Gandhi, Principal; Jasudben ML School and Bloomingdales Pre-Primary, Mumbai We often underestimate the transformative power of school education and the potential of young minds in shaping a greener, more sustainable future. Despite growing global awareness, climate change education remains a glaring gap in curricula around the world. As a result, future changemakers—and education itself—continue to be sidelined in …