Various data estimates project the requirement of skilled workers and professionals in real estate and construction sector anywhere between 15 million and 66 million in next 2-3 three years.  While about 80% of this workforce will constitute semi-skilled personnel, the remaining 20% will be divided between skilled and highly skilled personnel. In India, traditionally the highly skilled professionals for this …

Tutoring or mentorship is a fact of life for almost every student in India. As a cottage industry, neighbourhood tuition centres, tutors or home tutors, has existed for decades now. With exponential technologies disrupting every walk of life, tutoring is also transforming and going online. Minal Anand, born and brought up in Delhi went to Boston University, USA for her …

From a happy-go-lucky founder at Ascot International with a 3-year work life in Africa’s Tanzania to getting into education media business, Ravi Santlani, the founder-CEO of ScooNews based in Jaipur, is a tale of how education sector is attracting a lot of new business leaders wanting to change the face of education in India.  A childhood friendship with UK-based IT …

A rejection some 22 years ago for ‘lacking interpersonal communication  skills’  at an interview for admission to a MBA course in Delhi, was a traumatic memory  that Shivram Choudhary, founder of edutech startup, codevidhya.com and Euro International School, Sikar, never got over. So, after completing a PG in English Literature and training as a teacher and even working as a …

The second edition of IFT has already set in with registration closing on Nov 20. Meant to be a team event for students in the age group of 13-17, the competition, which will focus on innovative solutions to  ‘water crisis’, will move from short listing of teams to zonal and national rounds, and the Top 3 ideas will get a …

In the draft NEP, early education has been an area of big focus. Lina Ashar, founder promoter of Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd, which built popular brand of 79 Kangaroo kids, is a pioneer in the preschooling segment with almost four decades of active work.  After her company was acquired by EuroKids International Pvt. Ltd in 2017-18, she is hopeful of …