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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - October 2019

Oct 2019

Sep 06, 2021

Kochi Based Start-up Avodha Offers Courses in Vernacular Languages

Amid crises faced by the students and the educational sector in the state due to the pandemic, a start-up from Kochi has taken a different path and has been offering courses in vernacular languages other than English and considers the financial conditions of students in an empathetic manner while putting together their fee structure.
While most online learning platforms are offering courses in English, Avodha, a vernacular upskilling platform, is offering 20 courses in regional languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada. Six courses are also available in Hindi.
Besides software courses, Avodha has entered the hardware field, making it the very first start-up in India to offer hardware skill development, the company claimed. Hardware online courses that Avodha offers include mobile, laptop and A/C repair engineering.

Sep 05, 2021

Mizoram to Enroll Children of Myanmar Refugees in Govt. Schools

The Mizoram government has decided to enroll children of Myanmarese refugees who have taken shelter in the state after the military coup hit the neighbouring country.
Mizoram's School Education Director James Lalrinchhana, referring to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act-2009), has asked all the district and sub-divisional education officers that children aged between 6 and 14 years belonging to disadvantaged communities have the right to be admitted to schools in a class appropriate to his or her age for completing elementary education.

Sep 04, 2021

IIM Shillong Joins Hands with SHRM, Talentedge

Ed-Tech firm, Talentedge has partnered with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong to launch "Post Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management".
This is the first time that any IIM has partnered with SHRM. The online, one-year course has been specifically designed to prepare learners for the faster-moving post-pandemic world.
The online program is designed to help management students gain both knowledge and application of knowledge across the HR function. It focuses on critical knowledge, skills, and competencies needed by HR professionals to scale the next level of success in the new normal.

Sep 03, 2021

The World University Rankings 2022

The Times Higher Education (THE) announced the results of The World University Rankings 2022 with the UK's University of Oxford, which led the way in the global search for a Covid-19 vaccine – retaining top spot for an impressive sixth consecutive year. A record 1,662 universities from 99 countries and regions appear in the table with Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji and Palestine all represented for the first time.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is India's best-ranked institution, maintaining its position in the 301-350 band for a third consecutive year. As a result, India is home to 35 of the world's top 1000 universities, its second-highest total ever in the rankings (36 in The World University Rankings 2020). IIT Ropar was ranked in the top 351-400 bracket, while IIT Indore was in the 401-450 bracket.

Sep 02, 2021

IIT Ropar Develop's World's First 'Plant Based' Smart Air Purifier

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Ropar and Kanpur and Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have jointly launched a living-plant based air purifier named "Ubreathe Life". This air purifier will boost the air purification process in indoor spaces, such as hospitals, schools, offices and homes. It is the world's first, state-of-the-art 'Smart Bio-Filter' that can make breathing fresh.
The Ubreathe Life technology works through the air-purifying natural leafy plants. The room air interacts with leaves and goes to the soil-root zone where maximum pollutants are purified.
It has been developed by the IIT Ropar incubated startup, Urban Air Laboratory. The specific plants tested for air-purification include Peace Lily, Snake Plant, Spider plant etc. and all have given good results in purifying indoor-air, the company has claimed.
The purifier effectively improves indoor air quality by removing particulate, gaseous and biological contaminants while increasing the oxygen levels in the indoor space through specific plants, UV disinfection and a stack of Pre-filter, Charcoal filter and HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter fitted in a specially designed wooden box, the company has said about the air purifier's functioning mechanism.

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