UNESCO has selected six outstanding literacy programmes from Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Mexico and South Africa as winners of its International Literacy Prizes, awarded on the occasion of International Literacy Day (8 September). The awards will be presented during a virtual International Conference entitled “Literacy for a human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital divide,” which UNESCO will host on 8 and 9 September. The online event …

Plaksha University, being set up by over 60 entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the world with an investment of over Rs 2000 crore in the next ten years, announced that its 50 acre state-of-the-art campus in IT city, Mohali will open on Oct 4, 2021. The project is funded by a collective philanthropy effort involving industry leaders and entrepreneurs from …

A transnational survey conducted in August 2021 by INTO University Partnerships involving over 1,200 Gen Z students (those born 1995-2012) from 93 countries shows that the catastrophic impact of COVID-19 on lives and economies has failed to dent the hopes and aspirations of Gen Z as they are more optimistic than ever about their future. India leads the way in …

A collaborative initiative of IIT Roorkee, IISc Bangalore, and C-DAC, the Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) toolkit was launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It will serve as an important educational / research tool that would attract students/researchers to the field of Quantum Technology and provide a platform to acquire the skills of ‘programming’ and ‘designing’ real …

The final rounds of state level IndiaSkills competition will be held in Maharashtra from 3rd– 5thSeptember in which a total of 350 candidates will participate. Those selected for the State-level competition are currently undergoing zonal rounds. State-level winners will be then trained to participate at the National Level slated for December later this year. Worldskills Competition will happen next year …

The first of its kind comic book, authored by Arthy Muthanna Singh and Mamta Nainy, exclusively on the lesser-known species of the Nilgiris, was launched by World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India). The Nilgiri Tahr is the only mountain ungulate in southern India amongst the 12 species present in the country. A large part of the population has depleted from its …