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, …

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 …

Centre for Social Development announced (CSD), a group of intellectuals and academicians to work for the social development of deprived sections of society set up in 2015, has constituted its new working committee. The newly constituted committee will be led by Dr. Raj Kumar Falwaria as the Chairman. Other members of the committee are- Luke Khanna, Binit Sinha, Mukesh Bagoria, …

EdIndia Foundation, the strategic CSR arm of Sterlite Power, has announced its partnership with the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (UNESCO MGIEP), to train more than 10,000 teachers in India. This partnership will enable government teachers across India to leverage digital tools and integrate socio-emotional context while teaching. While the training on Digital Learning …

The #Hijabcontroversy has legally moved to the top of the ladder and an appeal against the Karnataka High Court order of March 15 has been filed in the Supreme Court. The landmark Karnataka HC in its order had dismissed all pleas challenging the order of Government Pre–University College for Girls, Udupi banning hijab in the campus and thereby allowed the ban to …