English, in India
Saw this article in the ToI. Again, good scores are not a perfect representative of proficiency. A very well-defined and a standard definition of proficiency is long due. “Toefl provides accurate...
View ArticleHelion Advisors announces investment of US$ 3.5 mn in Vienova Education
Helion Advisors, one of the largest early stage venture funds in the country, today announced an investment of US$ 3.5 million in Vienova Education, an affordable private education provider based in...
View ArticleDilip Modi-backed Omnia Invests Rs 7 Crore In Education Start-Ups
Dilip Modi-promoted Omnia Investments has funded candidate assessment venture Common Job Test and higher education firm Sunstone, picking up significant minority stake in both start-ups. According to a...
View ArticleNow A Stationery Firm Launches Education Tablet!
Tablet makers appear to see a big market for selling devices to students. After Datawind’s blockbuster launch of the world’s cheapest Tablet Aakash and the more recent launch of Classpad, it is the...
View ArticlePearson In Talks To Buy Educomp’s 50% Stake In Indiacan
Pearson Plc., the world’s largest education service provider and one of the leading media groups, is in advanced stages of discussion with Educomp Solutions Ltd to buy out the latter’s 50 per cent...
View ArticleNYC tech takes on the classroom | Crain’s New York Business
New boost for interactive content: Partly spurred by its concentration of intellectual talent, New York is also becoming a hotbed of innovation in educational technology. Venture capital investment in...
View ArticleThe Context of Statistics
Anurag Behar, CEO of the Azim Premji Foundation, wrote an article yesterday in the Mint, describing how private and government schools are equally incompetent to provide good education. In the...
View ArticleEdusys Raises $7.5M From Sequoia Capital | VCCircle
Bangalore-based online education training and certification company Edusys Services Pvt Ltd has raised $7.5 million (Rs 38 crore) from Sequoia Capital. With this round of funding, Edusys aims to expand...
View ArticleTalentSprint Raises $4M In Series A From Nexus Venture Partners | VCCircle
Hyderabad-based skill development and training company TalentSprint Educational Services Pvt Ltd has raised Rs 20 crore ($4 million) in series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners. As part of the...
View ArticleMOOCs in India
Sui Fai John Mak explores, “Why c and x MOOCs are attracting different number of participants?” We’ll come back to this in a while. In another very interesting article that lays out MOOC Student...
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