Celebrating 25 years of impact, Akshara Foundation, a Bangalore-based Public charitable trust committed to ensuring ‘Every Child in School and Learning Well,’ launched the 2024-25 Gram Panchayat Level Maths Contests Report that reveals interesting gender-based trends in performance across grades 4, 5, and 6.  The report unveiled on March 10 found girls consistently outperformed boys in the higher performance bands, …

The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) on March 6 organized a Breakout session, on “National Centres of Excellence for Skilling”, announced in the Union Budget 2025-26. The breakout session was one of the eleven such sessions which were held in the follow up to the post-budget webinar on “Investing in People”, which was conducted on March 5 for which Department of Higher …

Nayanta University, a new private university coming up in Pune is set to begin classes in August 2025. Established under the Maharashtra State Private University Act, Nayanta aims to redefine the future of higher education in India by offering a transformative, fully residential undergraduate program designed to prepare students for leadership in an increasingly complex world. Backed by a distinguished group …

Solan-based Shoolini University (esb 2009), India’s top-ranked private university, and Royal Holloway, University of London have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to launch a 1+1 Dual Master’s Degree Program for the 2025/26 academic year. The Memorandum of Agreement singed in Delhi on March, provides for a 1+1 Masters programme in Biotechnology/Biosciences, and Psychology programmes, and allows for subsequent expansion …

The National Science Day is celebrated on February 28th each year in India to honor the discovery of the Raman Effect by Indian physicist C.V. Raman in 1928. This discovery was a groundbreaking achievement in the field of light scattering, for which C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. The day also commemorates contributions of scientists …

Get Set Learn (GSL), a future-skills-focused learning startup, has partnered with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to launch the Skills for New Bharat initiative. The partnership aims to drive a mindset shift in schools, empowering 1 million students in K-12 over five years with an entrepreneurial mindset and preparing them to thrive in a rapidly evolving world shaped by AI, automation, and …