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Today, Lauren Sánchez, an Emmy-winning journalist, the creator of Black Ops Aviation, the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, and a philanthropist, announced a $1 million donation to This Is About Humanity, a group working to raise awareness about family separation at the border. The funding will be utilised in collaboration with the International Community Foundation to construct new ludotecas, or migrant children’s learning centres, as well as to assist programmes addressing mental health, food insecurity, and other vital, enriching services. The organization’s longstanding sponsor Ms. Sánchez recently travelled to Tijuana to tour the initial seven educational facilities made…
The Delhi government will begin coaching classes for children from financially poor background under the Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana from next week, an official statement said on Thursday. Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam held a review meeting with senior officers and coaching operators of the scheme and took stock of the preparations for the classes, the statement said. Under Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana, the Delhi government will provide free coaching to meritorious students from scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and poor families, who have passed Class 10 and Class 12 with good grades, it said. “We…
Providing educational services is one of Eye Level’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives as it marks its tenth year. Beginning in July, there will be a special chance for pupils who require a private basic education but cannot pay it. This initiative benefits more than 200 students in the US, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The kids’ arithmetic and English skills are assessed by Eye Level teachers who have received specialised training for tailored coaching, and coaching is given at each student’s eye level. The foundational principle of the company is to educate every child at…
Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement with the Telangana government to develop technology-enabled laboratories for polytechnics and engineering institutions in the state. BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) division and the State Board of Technical Education and Training (SBTET), a board created under the authority of the Telangana government, have signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard, according to a statement. The technology-enabled laboratories (TEL) project will be funded by SBTET and will be executed in multiple phases for two years.
Shanghai and Farmington Hills, Michigan, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Gale Scholar, a product of Cengage Group’s Gale, has been bought by Shanghai University, creating new opportunities for research and study using Gale Primary Sources’ extensive material and potent search tools. Over the course of the university’s three campuses, the resources are accessible to close to 58,000 students. To develop in the expanding field of digital humanities, the university has bought Gale Digital Scholar Lab (the Lab). In order to help students and scholars examine and interpret massive volumes of data and develop 21st-century skills they can use beyond graduation,…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday constituted a fact-finding committee to look into the alleged incident in Kollam where a NEET aspirant was asked to remove her bra. “It has been brought to the notice of the Ministry of Education through various media reports that an incident allegedly happened in one of the Centres of NEET(UG)- 2022 near Kollam district in Kerala,” the ministry said. Accordingly, a fact-finding committee has been constituted by the NTA to ascertain the facts in detail. “Further action will be taken based on the report of the fact-finding committee which will visit Kollam,” a…
According to a survey of the number of pageviews on the study abroad choice platform, Studyportals, for the top 25 study destinations in the European Higher Education Area, interest in attending Italian institutions with English-taught courses is surging (EHEA). When prospective foreign students use Studyportals’ study abroad comparison website for European universities, the number of pageviews for degree programmes taught in English at Italian higher education institutions increased by 45 percent, moving them from eighth to fourth place. According to Carmen Neghina, deputy director of the company’s analytics and consulting team, “We’ve seen a lot of movement among the users…
Continental’s Technical Center India (TCI) has signed a pact with IIT-Palakkad for a 3-year joint research programme, focusing on autonomous driving technologies, connected mobility and safety solutions. Under the collaboration, Continental and IIT-Palakkad will research, develop and build competencies in optimising high-performance computing, simulation models for image and video processing chain for autonomous driving, and autonomous mobility safety features based on human vision features, and advanced safety solutions for intelligent battery sensing module, Continental said in a statement. The agreement will create an opportunity to utilise the technical expertise of Continental and the academic prowess of IIT–Palakkad to collaborate in…
This week, the rupee reached a new record low against the US dollar, reaching the 80 level. In accordance with official figures, more than 13.24 lakh Indian students pursued higher education overseas, with the majority of them going to the United States (4.65 lakh), followed by Canada (1.83 lakh), the United Arab Emirates (1.64 lakh), and Australia (1.09 lakh), among others. A declining rupee, in the opinion of Arijit Sanyal, MD and CEO of HDFC Credila, will raise the cost of education for an Indian student planning to pursue an international education. “From the standpoint of an education loan lender,…
The pass percentage in class 10 Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) examination continued to be better than pre-pandemic years with 99.97 per cent of the candidates clearing the exam this year. The results were announced by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Sunday. The pass percentage last year was at 99.98 per cent. However, the results were announced on the basis of an alternative assessment scheme as exams could not be conducted in view of the pandemic. In 2020 too, exams had to be cancelled midway following the announcement of a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.…