Transformation of Schools: Past and Present

Bhubaneswar: Currently, the government of Odisha has taken the charge of transforming government-run schools. Facilities like Smart classes, altar modern laboratories, toilets, e- classrooms, beautiful gates, and boundaries decorated with colourful paintings are being made. Even though new buildings are not made old ones are being renovated. The schools are now looking very attractive. This…

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Odisha Considers Reducing Summer Vacation in Educational Institutes to Make Up for Academic Loss

Bhubaneswar:The government of Odisha is considering reducing the period of vacation for the colleges and universities across the state to restore the academic loss caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the last two years. Earlier, the state government had announced to shorten summer vacations for schools as well citing similar reasons to recover the academic…

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Digital Education: A Boon Or A Bane

Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 pandemic has given our education system a completely new horizon by introducing the digital method of the teaching-learning process. Even though it has been started in compulsion and initially treated as a shortcut or temporary substitute for continuing education of the students designed to go with COVID appropriate behaviour, now it has…

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Collegedekho.com forays into Ed-FinTech

Gurugram: CollegeDekho, India’s largest college admissions and higher education services platform has recently forayed into the Ed-FinTech vertical. The foray into a new vertical makes CollegeDekho India’s first and only EdTech company offering end-to-end financial solutions at zero percent EMI for students studying either within India or abroad. This is a single digital journey for students…

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CollegeDekho closes Series B funding round with US$ 35 million

Gurugram: CollegeDekho, India’s largest college admissions and higher education services platform, closes its Series B funding with Disrupt ADQ and QIC coming on board recently. The USD 35 million (~INR 260 crore) round has been led by Winter Capital, ETS Strategic Capital – the private equity investments arm of ETS (creator of the TOEFL® tests…

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Post-Covid Children Dropping Out From Schools is on Rising In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Post Covid-19 pandemic, children in rural Odisha are at a higher risk of dropping out of schools as children from the poorer sections are mostly deprived of the facilities the solvent has provided during the pandemic. Even though the State government has introduced an online mode education system and it is considered a successful…

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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham develops technology to treat toilet wastewater through biological Filters

Bhubaneswar: The School of Biotechnology at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has discovered a proprietary technology to treat wastewater discharged from toilets through layers of biological filters (bacteriophages, specific algae, bacterial consortia, different biological control agents against enteric pathogens and aquatic plants). The technology was developed with funding obtained from national and international funding agencies such as…

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Quality of Education is Declining in the Greed of Promotion

Bhubaneswar: There is an inextricable link between research and development. It is futile to expect development from any field without researching that. Research is being done at various academies across the country. In earlier times, it used to take many years to develop a vaccine for any disease. In that case, the development of the…

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