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Apr 09, 2021

Manipal's WGSHA Gets US Recognition

The Manipal-based Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration (WGSHA) got accreditation from the US-based Hotel Schools of Distinction (HSD) as its partner school.
WGSHA aims to strengthen its network with the affiliation from Hotel Schools of Distinction to provide hospitality management programmes. With this partnership, HSD's goal is to create hospitality leadership through education, to provide the hospitality industry with the best talent, wherever they are located in the world.
WGSHA becomes the only hospitality school in the Asia-Pacific region to be so recognised with this accreditation.

Apr 07, 2021

Alagappa University Launches Online UG, PG Degree Programmes

Alagappa University, Karaikudi, one of the leading state universities of Tamil Nadu, has announced the launch of online learning portal, auedu.in, which will offer high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in multiple domains.
The University announced this as an initiative to expand its offerings in line with the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). These high-quality online degrees shall enable learners to learn from and engage with the excellent faculty of Alagappa University online.
Through its learning portal, the university will offer MBA with specializations in General Management, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Logistics Management and Tourism Management to help learners from across the globe prepare for management careers.
Other postgraduate programmes offered online include MA in Journalism and Mass Communication, MA in English and Master of Commerce. It will also offer Bachelor of Business Administration to aspirants looking to get into business management as a domain. Besides this flagship undergraduate programme, Alagappa University will also offer B.Com and BA in Tamil as an undergraduate offering on the portal.

Apr 06, 2021

Byju's Acquires Aakash Educational Services

As managing director of Aakash Educational Services (AESL), Aakash Chaudhry's role is to manage the overall operations of the brick-and-mortar test preparation (prep) leader. Now the country's $180-billion education sector has gone online to adapt to the new reality. Chaudhry may not have imagined that one day he would also have to do an acquisition deal online. This is because edtech decacorn Byju's has closed the deal to acquire AESL for nearly $1 billion.
Chaudhry and Byju's Founder and Chief Executive Officer Byju Raveendran closed the deal over videoconferencing platform Zoom. The stock-and-cash deal is the biggest in the education space.
This partnership brings together two of the largest education brands in India, combining Aakash's pedagogy expertise in the test-prep segment with Byju's content and tech capabilities. The acquisition will help Byju's further dominate the market and increase its lead over its competitors, such as SoftBank-backed Unacademy, Vedantu, and traditional education institutes.

Apr 05, 2021

Ashok Soota Sets Up Non-profit Entity for Medical Research

IT veteran Ashok Soota has set up SKAN, a not-for-profit entity that will conduct medical research, and has committed Rs. 200 crore towards the effort.
The research for the projects will be done through reputed partners.
The strategic partner for neurological research is the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at Indian Institute Science-Bangalore (IISc).
CBR is putting together a consortium to handle the first project on Parkinson's disease.

IIT-Hyderabad to Offer Joint Doctoral Programme with Deakin University

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Hyderabad) is offering joint doctoral programme in collaboration with Deakin University. The programme, as per the institute, will be offered in a wide array of subjects include materials and smart manufacturing, affordable healthcare, food, environment and agriculture, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cyber-physical systems, and energy.
The candidates need to possess a BTech or MTech degree to be eligible for the doctoral programme, also they have to qualify in the interview round. The qualified candidates can spend between 3 to 12 months at Deakin University as per the research requirements.
The students will get PhD fellowship including the travel expenses to Deakin university. The varsity will also provide a full tuition fee waiver for up to four years. On completing the programme, the candidates will be awarded certificates from both institutes.

Apr 04, 2021

Ramesh Pokhriyal Launches 'MyNEP2020' Platform of NCTE Portal

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launched the "MyNEP2020" platform of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) Web Portal which will be operational from April 1 to May 15, 2021.
The 'MyNEP2020' platform will help teachers and educators across the country put forward their suggestions on several teachers' policies in the country.
The platform seeks to invite suggestions/inputs/membership from the stakeholders for preparing a draft for the development of National Professional Standards for Teachers (NPST) and National Mission for Mentoring Program membership (NMM).

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