The two-day Visitor’s Conference on July 10-11 was inaugurated by  The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 10th July 2023 and was attended by over 150 vice-chancellors and HEI heads. Visitor’s Awards 2021 The President of India also presented the Visitor’s Awards 2021. The Visitor’s Award for ‘Innovation’ was conferred on Prof. Venktesh Singh from the School …

A lack of awareness about tech careers may be a primary reason for the shortage of candidates in India’s tech industry says Wiley Edge’s first-ever India survey report.  Wiley’s global talent development solution, Wiley Edge recently conducted a comprehensive survey targeting 200 senior IT decision-makers and approximately 1,000 young professionals aged 21 to 25, working in Indian tech enterprises and found that …

The Right to Education Forum (RTE Forum), a prominent civil society network engaged in advocacy of the right to education  on June 23, 2023 sent feedback on the draft NCF for School Education to the Union Ministry of Education.   In this post, we reproduce an abridged version of this feedback/suggestion The NCF would have been stronger if it included …

By Balakrishnan Narayanan, Head of Analytics and Product at Fibe The rapidly evolving landscape of financial technology or fintech has revolutionized the way we conduct financial transactions, manage investments, and even think about money. Continuing with the trend for years, financial institutions are expected to increasingly develop or adopt capabilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Fintech sector in India …

As the role of academic degrees is decreasing and skill, knowledge, data, and AI is changing how students, companies, and society see the world, Graduate Venture Program (GVPs) can offer HEIs in India the opportunity to engage youth and in the process will help creating a long-term impact on Indian business and the global economy writes Zahor Ahmad Paray* Graduate …

The Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 for 2021-22 report released on July 7 is the latest report in this series that commenced in 2017 as an annual tracker of the country’s progress towards SDG4 in school education. The surprise finding is that no state or UT features in the top four grade bands on a scale of 1000 and even …