Digital Education

Different faces of bank frauds

Customer education is the key to combating digital fraud, while improved credit appraisal, underwriting, and risk management can help contain loan fraud

2025 will be best year for growth, profitability: Unacademy co-founder

The ongoing year will be the best period in terms of growth and profitability for Unacademy, the co-founder and CEO of the edtech company, which has laid off 250 employees, said on Wednesday. Amid claims that the edtech company is up for sale, Unacademy Co-Founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal in a social media post asserted that the management is building the company for the long run. "There is a lot being said about Unacademy currently. To set the record straight, Unacademy will have its best year in terms of growth and profitability. We also have many years of runway. We are building Unacademy for the long run," Munjal said on social media platform X. The company has laid off around 250 employees comprising 150 sales personnel who were asked to leave for not meeting performance criteria, according to sources privy to the development. A source said that the company had laid off only about 100 employees and they have been given severance packages while sales employees have to leave for no

IGNOU January 2024: Re-registration extended to Feb 15; details here

The deadline to re-register for Bachelors and Master online and distance learning courses at the Indira Gandhi National Open University without the late fee was January 29, 2024

PhysicsWallah FY23 revenue up 3.4x, profitable for third consecutive year

PW's revenue from operations rose to Rs 771.76 crore during the fiscal year ended March 2023, compared to Rs 232.47 crore in the previous fiscal year and Rs 24.6 crore in FY21

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Slipping on numbers? Experts suggest how to get over maths phobia

Role of technology comes into play as educators look for fun ways to combat a perennial fear

Digital education helps students, teachers to learn modern skills: Experts

Skills in problem-solving, creative thinking, and data needed for the job market, they say on national technology day

Delhi govt to develop 2,000 digital classrooms, tender floated for project

The Delhi government will develop more than 2,000 digital classrooms at a cost of over Rs 65 crore and it has floated a tender for the project, officials said. The classrooms for students from Classes 6 to 12 will have Wi-Fi routers, 75 inch or above interactive display panels and personal computers. The work will be carried out in existing classrooms of schools under the Directorate of Education (DoE). The Public Works Department (PWD) has floated a tender, and eligibility bids will be opened on May 17. The work will be carried out at an expenditure of Rs 65.43 crore, the officials said. Initially, smart classrooms will be for Classes 6 to 12 and later, the facility will be available for other classes too, they said. According to official documents, the interactive display will be installed with complete full-HD animated digital content for all Classes 1 to 12 as per the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) curriculum valid for five years. The PWD has als

Budget: Govt to set up National Digital Library for children, adolescents

A National Digital Library for children and adolescents will be set up for facilitating the availability of quality books across geographies, languages, genres and levels, and device agnostic accessibility, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Wednesday. In her Budget speech, she said states will be encouraged to set up physical libraries for them at panchayat and ward levels and provide infrastructure for accessing the National Digital Library resources. To build a culture of reading and to make up for pandemic-time learning loss, the National Book Trust, Children's Book Trust and other sources will be encouraged to provide and replenish non-curricular titles in regional languages and English to these physical libraries. "Collaboration with NGOs that work in literacy will also be a part of this initiative. To inculcate financial literacy, financial sector regulators and organizations will be encouraged to provide age-appropriate reading material to these libraries,"

TMS Ep339: Online gaming, EV revolution, IT sector, Digital University

Will self-regulation work for online gaming in India? Will commercial vehicles drive the EV revolution? Will IT sector succumb to global headwinds? What's the National Digital University? Answers here

Indian edtech major Simplilearn trains its sights on boot camps

The Indian edtech major is gearing up to compete with global majors in the space

upGrad-backed Harappa launches in US, to upskill 55,000 managers in 3 yrs

Harappa founders cite huge scope as 82% Americans are likely to quit their jobs because of a bad manager, while 44% managers feel they are unprepared for their jobs

What layoffs? Ronnie Screwvala-led upGrad on a hectic expansion spree

In a studied contrarian move, the Ronnie Screwvala-led edtech company is on a hectic expansion spree

Amazon to shut down its edtech platform in India, refund customers

Edtech offering was launched last year to cater to students preparing for engineering colleges' JEE

Ronnie Screwvala-led upGrad to hire 1,400 amid edtech sector turbulence

Signs up new leases for 335K sq ft space in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune and Noida

Byju's raises $250 mn from existing investors, valuation remains at $22 bn

Regardless of the adverse macroeconomic conditions, Byju's founder Byju Raveendran said 2022-23 is set to be the best year in terms of revenue, growth and profitability

Lawmaker Karti P Chidambaram asks ICAI to investigate Byju's finances

Says nearly 81% of Byju's operating revenue for FY2021 constitutes sale of products like tablets, SD cards and laptops, which is a blatant misrepresentation of facts to classify hardware as edutech

Unacademy 'not efficient' in finances, will shut some businesses: CEO

Unacademy, valued at $3.44 billion, will restrict business class travel end meals and snacks as complimentary perk at the startup

Covid pandemic impact: When technology marries school education

Under the Digital India initiative, the government has taken extensive steps to boost digital education activities

Online math class platform Cuemath raises $57 mn, tops $407 mn valuation

The funding was led by Alpha Wave and the capital would help the firm to expand to over 100 countries by FY23