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Digital transformation of India’s higher education sector is the need of the hour. The pandemic has made it clear that universities and colleges in the country need to incorporate state-of-the-art digital technologies and newer business models to keep pace with technology shifts and improve future outcomes. Not just that, there needs to be a renewed emphasis on bridging the digital divide so that access to education is equitable and not just focused on urban areas.
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Samarth eGov: Making Indian universities Smart Photograph courtesy: Pixabay Digital transformation of India’s higher education sector is the need of the hour. The pandemic has made it clear that universities and colleges in the country need to …

With India’s medical regulator, the National Medical Commission (NMC) locked in a stalemate with state governments, the fate of some 18,000 Ukraine-returned medical students hangs in the balance.

Ukraine-returned medical students in India: In Limbo Photo courtesy: Pixabay With India’s medical regulator, the National Medical Commission (NMC) locked in a stalemate with state governments, the fate of some 18,000 Ukraine-returned medical students…

Over the years, attempts to open up India’s higher education space to international universities have been a series of hits and misses. If the new regulations do come through, it will be a huge step in the right direction.
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The pandemic has catapulted India’s EdTech industry into the big league. Even as I write this post, an EdTech startup is probably being birthed in some part of India. Currently, there are more than 4500 EdTech companies in the country and the industry, valued at US$ 750 million in 2020, is expected to reach US$ 4 billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 39.77%.

No small figure, this. In fact it was the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns that fuelled India’s EdTech boom. Schools and educational institutions had to switch to online learning with physical campuses being off limits. Tech-enabled learning became a winning proposition and more startups jumped onto the EdTech bandwagon. Right now, Byju’s is one of the leading companies followed by Unacademy, UpGrad, Toppr, Next Education, Meritnation among others.

I’d interviewed Byju Raveendran in 2016, a year after he had launched his company. He had explained that “online learning is not offline learning taken online by simply digitizing content. There is a lot of scope for technology to make learning better and more efficient.” Be that as it may, the real test of technology lies in whether it can improve the lives of people. And while urban India has clearly benefited from tech-enabled learning, have rural and underserved areas been able to make the switch smoothly?

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The Tepper School’s appointment is certainly one that increases the number of female academics holding key leadership positions at business schools in the US, at a time when the gender gap among business faculty still receives less attention than that of female student enrollment.

Tepper School Appoints Female MBA Program Head: MBA News New female MBA program head at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School, as we delve into AACSB research to track school’s progress on the faculty gender gap.

IIT-Jodhpur to be developed as a Centre of Excellence in Solar Thermal Research and Education. Two new research projects each have been sanctioned under solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies during the year. More about the research projects at (http://www.re-invest.in/)

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Leaving little scope for Delhi University to defy the government on the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), the University Grants Commission on Sunday issued another directive to the varsity to revert to the three-year course and, this time, asked for a compliance report by forenoon on Monday.

UGC gives DU a day to scrap FYUP - The Times of India UGC, which controls the university’s purse strings, told DU that any deviation from the directive shall be “deemed to be in contravention of the UGC Act, with its consequences”.