Category: Edutech & Education

  • IIIT-H and Pravaha Foundation organised Hackathon on ‘Sustainability through Technology

    IIIT-H and Pravaha Foundation organised Hackathon on 'Sustainability through Technology'

    February 03, 2023, Hyderabad: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) in collaboration with the Pravaha Foundation carried out a PAN India Hackathon for college students between the ages of 10-17 years.

    A complete of 55 groups(3-4 college students in every) registered in two classes from totally different cities in India. There have been 3 levels of filtration within the hackathon and the ultimate stage was carried out bodily on the IIITH campus

    The subject of the Hackathon was ‘Sustainability through Technology’. The goal of the Hackathon was to construct options utilizing know-how for Climate Change points and to attain the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) no.10 and 13.

    For the ultimate part, the first class(10-13yrs) tried to seek out options for the issue assertion on Automated water management- Monitor and management utilization of water. The 2nd class (14-17 years) tried to construct options round Automated Disaster administration (together with forest hearth, litho-disaster, and water-borne disasters). Participants labored on their answer mannequin for two days of their respective groups on the IIITH campus utilizing Robotics, IoT, and App Development combos to execute the options.

    For the finale, 3 school members from IIITH (Prof Ramesh Loganathan, Prof Hari Ok, and Prof Prakash Yalla), 2 school members from Mahindra University and economists(Asst Prof. KeertiPendyal and Asst Prof. Anjali Rajan), Environmentalist/Founder of The rainwater projectKalpana Ramesh, and Advisor, Agustya International Foundation- M G Subramanian have been invited to guage the groups primarily based on their options and displays.

    On the final day, the panel members not solely evaluated the mannequin options introduced by youngsters but additionally gave them recommendations/alternatives to use the prototype and prolong it to real-life implementation.

    Everyone together with mentors, judges, and the organizing crew was impressed by the enthusiastic, revolutionary, and acutely aware younger mindset of the members. It gave us a ray of hope for constructing a sustainable world sooner or later.

    The Hackathon developed problem-solving talents, design considering functionality, presentation and entrepreneurial abilities, and environmental consciousness among the many college students. Winners and runners-up within the Finals acquired mementos, money prizes of as much as 25,000/- and certificates. They can even be supplied with the chance to take part within the subsequent worldwide Hackathon organized by Pravaha.

  • Synersoft Technologies conducted webinar to launch ‘Magic Browser’

    1st February 2023: Synersoft Technologies, an Indian IT firm, conducted a webinar to launch ‘Magic Browser’ digitally on thirty first January 2023. The session witnessed invaluable insights from Vishal Prakash Shah, CEO and Co-Founder of Synersoft.

    The webinar launched an out-of-the-box concept of Magic Browser. It offers with a extreme dilemma of enterprises in balancing the liberty of the customers to use the Internet in addition to imposing restrictions to stop knowledge leakage. Businesses use the Internet as a useful resource many essential issues which requires permitting Internet entry to the customers. The availability of the Internet to customers attracts many hazards, which can have an effect on extreme issues like knowledge leakage and timepass actions to the companies utilizing the assets. Traditional options like firewalls and proxy servers try to remedy this drawback utilizing Internet content material filters, web site safelists, or denylists. The speaker highlighted two issues that make conventional options ineffective in breaking this dilemma which is concerning the efficacy of the content material filter, and about distant customers who are usually not within the protection of a firewall or proxy server. This innovation of Magic Browser breaks this dilemma and resolves each the issues or, in different phrases, ensures knowledge leakage prevention and productiveness.

    The webinar launched the expertise and defined the way it provides enterprise clients entry to the Internet with out the danger of time-wasting or knowledge leakage. The workforce demonstrated distinctive knowledge isolation expertise that makes file servers, storage methods, and firewalls talk with each other and take clever actions to isolate the information. It demonstrated that when the customers are engaged on confidential knowledge on file servers or storage servers, the file server communicates to the firewall to restrict Internet entry to minimal required web sites that don’t pose any knowledge leakage potentialities. At the identical time, the consumer has the liberty to use the Internet for analysis or enterprise improvement functions.

    Speaking on the event, Vishal Prakash Shah, CEO and Co-Founder of Synersoft stated, “Magic Box is step one to Futuristic Internet Access for enterprise customers. It provides an immense sense of satisfaction to see our R&D and product improvement workforce’s success in commercializing this disruptive expertise, which solves an acute drawback of hundreds of thousands of Indian MSME customers. Magic Browser will strengthen the general safety of enterprise knowledge and the customers’ productiveness.”

  • KLH Global Business School Hyderabad organizes Knowledge Sharing Session on Sustainable Development

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    Hyderabad, 01st February 2023: KL Deemed to be University, one in every of India’s main universities, organized a knowledge-sharing session as part of its eminent visitor lecture collection for administration course college students at its Global Business School in Hyderabad Campus lately. Dr. Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, Associate Professor on the Institute of Rural Management in Anand, Gujarat, was invited as visitor speaker. Dr. Nathan delivered an efficient and interesting lecture to the scholars on “Development – What is it and for whom?”

    The session launched many growth views and shifting paradigms within the business. It drew consideration to the shortcomings of the prevalent technique of evaluating growth utilizing a constrained set of macroeconomic indicators. During the session, Dr. Nathan cited the impression of the rebound impact and the fixation with positional items has optimistic impact on sustainable growth. He additionally mentioned the present system of sustainable growth targets and emphasised on efficient methods to achieve societal aspirations of fairness which highlighted the dilemma of growth initiatives in distant areas.

    Dr.G.Pardha Saradhi Varma, Vice Chancellor at KL Deemed to be University stated, “The world of training is altering tremendously, owing to fashionable necessities and much-needed modifications and visitor lectures give college students with useful academic alternatives primarily based on their real-world life experiences. With such initiatives, college students get to fulfill, speak, study and even share views of their particular fields. We at KL University are all the time wanting ahead to inviting entrepreneurs, professors and subject material specialists that educate college students and replace them with the most recent data”.

  • Techno Olympica Knights Comes To A Closure

    Techno Olympica Knights Comes To A Closure

    Kolkata, 2nd February 2023: Techno India Group, the biggest personal training group in Eastern India, hosted the Second version of Techno Olympica Knights a five-day gala sports activities occasion. This mega sporting occasion featured over 700 college students from 43 colleges throughout West Bengal. The closing ceremony was graced by the Chief Guest SouravGanguly, and different visitors of honourMrDibyenduBarua, Chess Grand Master, MrPremjit Sen, Referee & Judge World Karate Federation and Asian Karate Federation, President of Karate Association Of Bengal, MrSubrata Bhattacharya, Renowned Footballer and Prof ManoshiRoychowdhury, Co-Chairperson, Techno India Group.

    The closing ceremony included a sequence of occasions like Musical Yoga, Aerobics, Zumba, Karate which emphasised the significance of a wholesome thoughts and physique. The most attention-grabbing half was “Kalaripayattu” an Indian martial artwork that originated in current daykerela. There was stupendous perdoances by TIGPS  college students which  made the night really memorable

    We are very blissful that we’re ending the Techno OlympicaKinghts on a grand notice. It was heartening to have the highest younger athletes from West Bengal competing on this platform. We are grateful to the dignitaries for his or her gracious presence and I personally thank the whole Team of Techno India for placing their greatest efforts in making this mega occasion memorable for all. In the approaching years we anticipate the participation of scholars from extra colleges”, stated Prof. ManoshiRoychowdhury, Co-Chairperson, of Techno India Group.

    Techno Olympica Knights ended on a profitable notice which inculcated self-confidence, teamwork, and management among the many college students. The colleges who  participated in Techno Olympica Knights have been Future Hope School, PurushottamBhagchandka Academic School, GD Birla Centre for Education, Sakhawat Memorial Government Girls High School, Delhi Public School, Ruby Park, Shree Sarada Ashram BalikaVidyalaya, N Ok Pal AdarshaSikhyatan , Shri Shikshayatan School, Andrews High School, South City International School, Lake School For Girls, Ruby Park Public School – Taratala, Andhra Association High School, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Education, National Model High School, St. Joseph and Mary’s School, HariyanaVidyaMandir, DeshabandhuVidyapith Higher Secondary School, DeshabandhuBalikaVidyapith, Bamanghata High School, St. Thomas Girl’s School, BhavansGangabuxKanoriaVidyamandir ,Bishop George Mission School, Salt Lake School, Sai Simanta Model School, Bongoan, TIGPS Garia, TIGPS Konnagar, TIGPS Burdwan, TIGPS Balurghat TIGPS, Mankundu, TIGPS, Guptipara TIGPS, Arihadaha, TIGPS Guskara, TIGA South Kolkata, BidyaBharati Girls High School, Narmada High School, Pathfinder Higher Secondary Public School, DrShyamaprasad Mukherjee Institution, Kheyadaha High School, Kalyani Public School – Barasat, GD Goenka Public School – Dakhineswar, TIGPS, Panagarh& National High School.

  • Masai Group Company Prepleaf Unveils Career Accelerator Program For College Students

    02 February 2023: Bangalore: India’s fastest-growing JobTech institute, Masai School’s group firm Prepleaf, has introduced its first outcome-based program for school college students. The Career Accelerator Program (CAP) is open to all instructional backgrounds, throughout all ranges – first-year, second-year, and pre-final-year college students with the intention to give them an opportunity to advance their profession prospects by equipping them with technical data adopted by placement assist. The firm will provide price refunds to college students who don’t get positioned above 5LPA inside 1 12 months after all completion.

    The first-of-its-kind Career Accelerator Program spanning 24 months goals to endow budding programmers with the appropriate mentorship, technical coaching, and placement alternatives to assist them set up a agency foothold within the tech {industry} on the very begin of their careers. This software program growth program will present tech coaching on features like DSA, Python, React & Redux, MERN, CSS, HTML, and JS. The course may also assist college students get in-course internships with prime firms and can entail a certificates after all completion from the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).

    Speaking concerning the Career Accelerator Program, Prateek Shukla, CEO, and Co-founder, of Masai School, stated, “Job marketplace for technical roles, particularly software program builders, will proceed to increase within the coming years. Our concept has all the time been to shut the talent hole in India, and with the Career Accelerator Program, we’re providing school college students an opportunity to develop {industry} desired expertise whereas finding out in parallel to school. Colleges we have now partnered with are enthusiastic about this too as a result of our practice-based-learning modules and our educating pedagogy can assist their college students understand their true profession potential.”

    Students will be taught in weekly stay lessons and still have video assets making it versatile for them to handle their school workload. This pay as you go course won’t solely provide technical talent growth however may also assist college students develop over 100 initiatives and concentrate on comfortable talent growth like interview preparedness & English fluency. Students may also have a whole semester of revision and placement preparation.

    What makes this initiative distinctive is the truth that prime tech mentors have curated this system to make school college students to be industry-ready software program builders. CAP mentors comprise of prime educators and enterprise leaders from IIT Mumbai, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others. The pay as you go program additionally presents a full refund if not positioned inside 1 12 months after all completion.

    Masai School acquired Prepleaf in December 2021. The two firms have created varied free-of-cost assets for placement preparation for school college students. They have additionally lately launched a month-to-month coding contest with prizes price INR 1 Lakh which will probably be held on the final Saturday of each month.

  • Macron Unveiled: The Prototype for a New Generation of World Leaders by Alain Lefebvre, now available from Histria Books

    Histria Books is happy to announce the discharge of the paperback version of Macron Unveiled: The Prototype for a New Generation of World Leaders by Former French diplomat Alain Lefebvre. The ebook is revealed by Gaudium Publishing, an imprint of Histria Books devoted to excellent works of non-fiction in a selection of fields. It is the winner of the New York City Big Book Award.

    Kirkus Reviews calls it, “An astute, engrossing overview of Macron’s presidency and potential.” Midwest Book Review says Macron Unveiled is an “Exceptionally informative, impressively nicely written, completely ‘reader pleasant’ in a company and offered… a rare and complete political biography.”

    Macron Unveiled examines Macron’s first 4 years as France’s president, scrutinizing Macron’s character, his means of fixing issues, his sources of inspiration, his errors, his difficulties, in addition to the impression he could have already got had in his nation, in Europe, and the world. New leaders with a trendy strategy to politics are rapidly rising, and regardless of having restricted political expertise, they’re dealing with the challenges of at this time head-on.

    As a former French Diplomat, psychologist, and political coach, Alain Lefebvre is uniquely positioned to elucidate the French perspective to worldwide audiences. He brings cautious evaluation and historic context to Macron’s time in workplace and presents the knowledge in a means that may helps readers acquire a higher understanding of who Macron is as a man, a chief, and a prototype for the subsequent era of political leaders.

    Alain Lefebvre has served in senior positions as a diplomat and a senior civil servant and works in Europe as a technique marketing consultant for governments and firms, and a political coach. He has participated in a number of political campaigns and has been immediately concerned within the European Union’s negotiations with French ministers. The creator of three different books about French and European politics, he splits his time between Finland and France.

    Macron Unveiled: The Prototype for a New Generation of World Leaders, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-59211-211-1, is available at HistriaBooks.com and from all main ebook retailers. The ebook can also be available in hardcover and eBook editions. Titles revealed beneath the assorted imprints of Histria Books are distributed worldwide by the Independent Publishers Group. For info on publishing with Histria Books, please go to HistriaBooks.com or contact us at data@histriabooks.com

  • Post Budget Quote by Career Xpert

    Gaurav Tyagi

    According to Gaurav Tyagi, founding father of Career Xpert,

    The healthcare sector of India is the biggest sector among the many international locations of the world. It is the quickest rising sector which gives a wide range of providers within the discipline of medication. The Finance Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman proposed the annual funds for 2023-24 at the moment. One of a very powerful highlights of the funds was the current developments in
    the medical sector. 

    The Finance Minister in her presentation acknowledged that 157 new nursing schools can be arrange throughout 4 main places in India. This will open up new alternatives for college students throughout the nation. The authorities has additionally proposed a plan to extend well being expenditure by 2.5% of the overall gross GDP. Moreover, emphasis will probably be laid to develop analysis services
    throughout varied ICMR labs all through the nation. Various new tasks have been devised to advertise pharmaceutical analysis. The new funds has additionally focussed on varied multi- dispensary programs which might allow higher medical services throughout the agricultural areas.

    Compared to the earlier 12 months this 12 months’s funds is total student-centric as it’ll present most profit to hundreds of medical aspirants throughout the nation. Moreover, the funds may even profit the academics and mentors as an increasing number of emphasis will probably be given to offering high quality coaching periods to them.

  • Sardana International School Focuses on Student Potential, Not Just Performance.

    Sardana International School Unveils Personalized Education

    Dewas, February 2022: Currently, dad and mom have gotten more and more involved about offering their kids with a very good schooling. Several research reveal that folks are in search of institutes they will belief and make sure of their kids’s future. In this extremely aggressive period, it’s tough to win the belief of oldsters; nonetheless, Sardana International School in Dewas has emerged as a logo of unwavering religion, Parents ship their kids to high school not solely to amass information but in addition to encourage them to adapt to any state of affairs and lead a disciplined life.
    LalitSardana Sir, who secured an All India 243rd rank in IIT, has been instructing Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for 26 years, and Dr.ShwetaSardana Madam teaches Biology. Their college students have the very best choice ratio in all throughout India.

    Lalit Sardana, Director of The Sardana International School, states, “Parents’ concern for his or her baby’s schooling is comprehensible and justified, however it isn’t a unilateral concern. Even good institutes are involved about their baby’s future, and oldsters place confidence in them.” It is the duty of the institutes to show each baby related to them in accordance with their degree and to not hesitate to show the related lesson greater than as soon as if they don’t perceive. This not solely will increase the kid’s morale but in addition sparks their curiosity to study extra. The lecturers at Sardana are educated to carefully observe this course of, so the youngsters can really feel nearer to them.

    He said, “It is commonly seen that institutes admit a lot of college students, however they don’t perceive that each baby has a unique studying and comprehension degree.” At Sardana, lecturers are dedicated to every scholar’s studying, no matter their particular person strengths and weaknesses. They be sure that all kids obtain the eye they should excel.

    Each and each scholar finding out at Sardana International School is devoted to their research as a result of restricted classroom power. Another benefit for college students is that the college and training are on the identical campus. The college has a restricted classroom power, permitting an optimum variety of college students to pursue self-studying within the presence of skilled lecturers. This setup is right for each aggressive exams and board examinations.

    Sardana School insurance policies don’t enable college students to maintain private cellphones; nonetheless, the college offers many types of leisure, comparable to sports activities, music, dance, yoga, and meditation. This not solely motivates college students throughout India to pursue high quality schooling, but in addition helps them obtain good marks in aggressive exams.

  • 120+ organizations come together at ‘PRAYAAS’ to commit towards collective action for India’s youth

    120+ organizations come together at ‘PRAYAAS’ to commit towards collective action for India’s youth

    New Delhi, February 01, 2023: With the target to unlock the potential of India’s youth, Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) organized ‘Prayaas – Young Minds, New Possibilities’ an invite-only convention held on January 31 in New Delhi. Prayaas aimed to stimulate a cohesive and collective understanding of the present points and instil a way of urgency towards constructing new pathways for the youth of our nation. The occasion was supported by YuWaah and Amazon.

    Some leaders together with Mekin Maheshwari, Founder, of Udhyam Learning Foundation; Priya Agarwal, Co-Founder & Director, of Antarang Foundation; Akshay Saxena, Co-Founder, of Avanti Fellows; Raj Gilda, Co-Founder, of Lend A Hand India, and Aakash Sethi CEO, Quest Alliance addressed the media. Attending the occasion have been change-makers, practitioners, and leaders from over 120 of India’s prime organizations together with The Nudge Institute, Magic Bus, J-PAL, Tech Mahindra Foundation, STIR schooling, Nalanda Way, India Literacy Project, Dream-A-Dream, Kshamtalaya, Aflatoun, ACT grants, IndusAction, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar, Veddis, Urban Company, Harappa, Sattva, Commutiny, LabourNet, Dalberg, Meghshala, Amazon, Head Held High, The Education Alliance, Reap Benefit, Kaivalya Education Foundation, StateStreet, Delhi authorities faculty college students, lecturers and different unbiased individuals enthusiastic about youth.

    Speaking at the occasion, Hon. Shri. Manish Sisodia, Education Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated, “Indian youth holds the important thing to the nation’s development. Youth have to be impressed and supplied with alternatives to grow to be life-long learners. Hear them and belief them as they’ll grow to be the innovators who will change the world sooner or later. We as enablers, want to be extra experimental in our strategy and maintain testing new fashions for academic transformation and produce them to scale for our nation at massive. Education wants to be a precedence for coverage, authorities and political leaders.”

    “Prayaas is an effort to unite like-minded individuals and organizations who care deeply concerning the lack of alternatives and pathways for India’s youth to understand their potential. The objective is to construct a thriving and supportive ecosystem, the place each particular person feels empowered to outline their very own path. At this occasion, we got here together to reframe the problems relating to schooling, skilling, and employment and commit to creating alternatives for our younger individuals collectively,” stated Mr. Mekin Maheshwari, Founder, Udhyam Learning Foundation.” More than ever, we want to speed up change at scale: impacting 20-30% of India’s youth, and do it NOW, earlier than our demographic dividend goes away and turns right into a demographic catastrophe,” he added.

  • Professional upskilling provides learners job advancements and help future-proof career opportunities, according to Emeritus India Impact Survey

    Mumbai, February 01, 2023: In order to preserve tempo with a quickly altering enterprise setting, professionals are more and more utilizing the upskilling programme to be taught new expertise, fill in data gaps, develop of their present jobs and future-proof their career alternatives.

    In a latest survey with learners in India – Emeritus – the worldwide chief in world-class skilled schooling, has gathered insights to decide the precise nature of how skilled programmes help learners.

    An overwhelming majority (81%) of the respondents from the survey consider that the programme they took had a optimistic influence on their career and skilled improvement. Knowledge enhancement and gaining higher understanding of a brand new area that’s related to their practise space have been cited as the important thing drivers for taking over an upskilling programme.

    The professionals surveyed revealed they’ve seen a optimistic influence inside 12 months of finishing a programme, whereas most of the respondents consider that the programme, they underwent helped them validate and fill data gaps of their job. More than half (58%) of respondents said that the programme supplied them with the mandatory expertise and coaching wanted to advance their careers and helped them future-proof their careers. The Emeritus India Impact Survey additionally factors to how learners have extra choices for career development after finishing an upskilling programme.

    According to a McKinsey Global Survey on reskilling in 2021, the urgency of addressing talent gaps is obvious and, throughout industries, extra vital than ever. Most respondents say that talent constructing is one of the best ways to shut these gaps and that they’ve doubled down on their efforts to reskill or upskill workers because the pandemic started. The survey means that the necessity to tackle talent gaps is extra pressing than ever. Majority respondents stated that closing talent gaps of their firms’ workforces has develop into a better precedence because the pandemic started.

    The optimistic influence of the upskilling programme shouldn’t be restricted to one’s direct work, as 2 out of three learners said that the programme helped them discover new which means and inspiration of their lives, and greater than 90% reported the programme helped them construct their self-confidence, management expertise & broaden their community. Professionals additionally said that they felt extra engaged at work if they’re studying new issues. The high driver for learners in India to take up upskilling programmes is the necessity to enhance their talent set at their present roles and enhance their effectiveness at work to total advance their careers.

    Speaking in regards to the India Impact Survey, Mr. Mohan Kannegal, CEO, of India and APAC, Emeritus, stated, “At Emeritus, we’re dedicated to our mission of constructing top quality, impactful schooling accessible to everybody in India. Upskilling oneself at this time has develop into a necessary component in a single’s skilled journey. It is heartening to see the rising numbers of learners who’re selecting high quality upskilling programmes so as to improve their data, develop inside their present organisation or wanting to transfer to one other function outdoors.” 

    The India Impact Survey was performed in September 2022, with learners who’ve accomplished Emeritus skilled schooling programmes by its associate faculties earlier than June 2022.

    Emeritus connects learners by international digital lecture rooms, partnering with over 60 high universities to provide on-line and app-based studying in codecs together with programs, certificates, on-line levels, boot camps, and so on. The firm has a very international attain – serving greater than 250,000 learners throughout 160 international locations, with programmes provided in a wide range of languages.