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Sep 17, 2021

India has Second-highest Women Learners for Online Courses in World

Women in India are learning online at higher rates compared to pre-pandemic, representing 44 per cent of new learners in 2021, up from 37 per cent in 2019. The Women and Skills Report by Coursera compares pre-pandemic enrolment and performance data with trends observed on the platform since the onset of the pandemic through June 2021.
With 4.8 million registered women learners, India ranks second worldwide for the highest number of registered women learners on Coursera.

Sep 16, 2021

Pondicherry University Ranks 8th among Central Institutions

Pondicherry University took the 8th spot among the 54 Central universities in India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2021 released by the Ministry of Education.
Pondicherry University was placed in 58th position with a score of 44.36 under 'University Category' and 87th place with a score of 43.10 under 'Overall Category' among the 1,657 participating institutions this year in the Ministry of Education–NIRF survey.

ISB, IIM-Bangalore in Top 10 Asia-Pacific Varsities

Bloomberg Businessweek released the global ranking of best business schools 2021. In the Asia-Pacific B-Schools ranking, the Indian School of Business has been ranked at the fifth position while IIM Bangalore secured the sixth rank. The best B-Schools results for 2021 are divided into four regions: Europe, Asia-Pacific, Canada and the United States.
China Europe International Business School has been placed at the top followed by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at second rank and the National University of Singapore at the third spot in the Asia Pacific region.

Sep 15, 2021

IIT-Bombay Launches 'Project Udaan'

IIT-Bombay launched its "Project Udaan" on the occasion of Hindi Diwas.
Project Udaan was launched with the aim of breaking the language barrier that many students face while joining the institutes of higher education.
Project Udaan enables the translation of textbooks and other study material of the engineering and other streams from English to Hindi and other Indian languages. This project was envisaged by Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan from Department of Computer Science & Engineering in IIT Bombay. It is a donation based and Artificial Intelligence-based translation ecosystem. It helps in translating engineering textbooks and learning materials in one-sixth the time as compared to manual tasking. This machine translation will be aided by human effort.

Sep 14, 2021

NITI Aayog Ties Up With ISRO, CBSE To Launch 'Space Challenge' For School Students

NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission in collaboration with ISRO and CBSE has launched 'Space Challenge' for school students across India.
This challenge has been designed for all the school students, mentors and teachers across the country who not only are associated with schools having Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) labs but for all the non-ATL schools as well.
The ATL Space Challenge 2021 aligns with the World Space Week 2021 which is being observed from October 4-10 each year at the global level in order to celebrate the contributions of space science and technology.

Sep 13, 2021

NLSIU India's Top Law College

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru retained the top position in the National Institutional Ranking (NIRF) 2021. The rankings were announced by the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan in a virtual address.
National Law University, New Delhi is the second-best institute in the rankings, while the third position was retained by Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad. The position of the top three institutes remained similar to the previous year.

NITI Aayog Ties-up with ISRO, CBSE Launches 'Space Challenge' for Students

NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission in collaboration with ISRO and CBSE launched 'Space Challenge' for school students across India.
This challenge has been designed for all the school students, mentors and teachers across the country who not only are associated with schools having Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) labs but for all the non-ATL schools as well.
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) successfully launched the ATL Space Challenge 2021 for all school students across the country.

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