News from the world of Education: May 21, 2025

The Hindu

21-05-2025

Admissions and scholarships
ARCH College of Design and Business, Jaipur, invites applications for UG and PG programmes in Design with specialisations in Fashion, Interior, Jewellery, Communication, Product Design, Business Administration and Design Education with Business and Entrepreneurial Knowledge. Deadline to apply is May 25. Admissions will be based on the All India Entrance Examination for Design (AIEED), which will be held on May 28. For details of courses, eligibility criteria and other information, visit https://www.aieed.com/
The National Skill Academy invites applications for its Government of India-certified courses in AI, Cybersecurity, Data Science, and Computer Science. For list of courses, eligibility criteria, and other details, visit www.nationalskillacademy.in
Medhavi Skills University has opened admissions for its UG, PG, and diploma programmes. Admissions are based on the Medhavi Scholarship and Aptitude Test (MSAT) or national entrance exams. For details on admissions, eligibility criteria and other information, visit https://bit.ly/4mkP2Ds
Les Roches will offer a Master of Science in International Hospitality Management at its Abu Dhabi campus in September 2025 in Abu Dhabi, and in Crans-Montana and Marbella campuses in March 2026
Eligibility: Bachelor's degree; Overall IELTS Academic score of 6.0 and minimum 5.5 in each component or TOEFL iBT: 80
Details at https://tinyurl.com/24v7fdvx
Kraftshala invites applications for its 22-week Marketing Launchpad programme, a job-linked full-stack marketing programme that integrates Performance Marketing, SEO, Ecommerce, Programmatic, Content Creation, Social Media, and AI into a single hands-on curriculum.
Eligibility: Graduates, students pursuing graduation and anyone who wants to build a career in marketing.
Deadline: June 10
For more details, visit https://www.kraftshala.com/marketing-launchpad/
The Rosy Blue Foundation has launched the Arunkumar and Ramniklal Mehta (ARRA) Scholarship to support high-achieving students pursuing UG and PG studies.
Eligibility: Top scores in national entrance exams and annual family income below ₹35 lakhs
For details, visit https://arrascholarship.org/
Azim Premji Foundation invites applications for the Azim Premji Scholarship to support girls pursuing higher education after school. The scholarship is applicable to the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand only.
Eligibility: Girls who passed Class 10 and 12 from a government school and have been admitted to a degree or diploma programme in a bona-fide higher education institution
Details at https://azimpremjifoundation.org/
Anveshana Research programme
Prayoga Institute of Education Research has announced the next edition of Anveshana, a scientific research programme for students from Classes 9 to 12 to conduct original, mentor-guided research at Prayoga's campus in Bengaluru. Details at https://www.prayoga.org.in/anveshana
Allen Tallentex
Allen Career Institute will hold the 12th edition of Allen Tallentex on October 5 and October 12 for students of Classes 5 to 10. Details are available at https://tinyurl.com/5fwcz7de
Aarohan Social Innovation Awards
Infosys Foundation launched the fourth edition of its Aarohan Social Innovation Awards in the following categories: Education; Healthcare; and Environmental Sustainability.
Eligibility: Indian citizens above 18 years living in India who have developed unique technology-based solutions that have the potential to create a significant impact on the underprivileged communities across India at scale.
Deadline: June 15
Details at https://tinyurl.com/3cac59xe
Events
ITM Business School recorded a 96% placement rate with recruiters including companies such as Ernst and Young, TCS, Federal Bank, Flipkart, Vodafone Idea. The institute's internship placement also saw a 92% rate with 202 companies offering internships across various fields.
TagHive has launched SaathiGPT, which allows developers, educators, and EdTech platforms to seamlessly integrate intelligent teaching and learning features such as automated question generation and adaptive feedback to nuanced content understanding and performance insights into their systems.
The School of Environmental Design and Architecture at Navrachana University Vadodara, hosted SEDA, its Semester-End Exhibition 2025. Students presented solutions to real-life architectural problems such as abandoned buildings, empty villages, crowded cities, unaffordability of sustainable designs and so on.
Capgemini, in collaboration with the Nasscom Foundation, conducted an AI for Skilling programme for over 700 disadvantaged youth who received practical exposure and certifications.
KLH Global Business School organised its Quarterly Students' Achievements Award Ceremony 2025. MBA students B. Shravya, Manish Sircar, and Nishanth Kulkarni; BBA students Rakesh Jagarlamodi and Jhanvi Dhara; BBA-IT students Hema Suravarapu and Ankit Kumar Vukkalkar; and B.Sc. Animation student Tarun Kishan were among the recipients.
Burlington English has launched a Burlington English for Nurses course at the Nursing Leadership Conclave in Kochi. This is a bridge course to enhance the communication proficiency of student nurses.
IMS Noida conducted a five-day International Immersion Programme for its Post Graduate Diploma in Management students in Malaysia, which was equally divided between academics, industry outings, and exposure to culture.
Sona College of Technology's Fashion Technology department has achieved 100% placements for its students with recruiters including Arvind Mills, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, Decathlon, Gokuldas Exports and H&M
To commemorate its 40th anniversary, Master Trust has sponsored the education of children across age groups and academic levels from the Deepalaya Learning Center in Sanjay Colony, South Delhi. The students will receive comprehensive support to meet their educational needs over the coming year.
The Sri Sathya Sai Skill Development Programme concluded its 90-day skill development programme in Data Engineering for 80 underprivileged graduates with a valedictory ceremony.
International School of Management Excellence, Bengaluru, hosted its annual International Day. Mikhail M. Kasko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of India, delivered the keynote address and interacted with the students.
PAL Works, a coalition of more than 20 organisations working together to advance the scale-up of Personalised Adaptive Learning (PAL) solutions across public education systems in India, was launched in Delhi. It brings together ed-tech innovators, education non-profits, research experts, ecosystem enablers, funders and philanthropies, and supportive government bodies.
Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (PGDM) Mumbai (WESchool) hosted a masterclass by actor Boman Irani on the journey from script to film. Over 200 students attended the session.
Bharti AXA Life Insurance launched BIMA BHARTI, a six-month apprenticeship programme under the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS), to create skill-development opportunities for UG students and graduates. Apprentices will receive certification from the Government of India.
The National Skill Development Corporation launched an international academy at the Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar, to empower the youth of Odisha and neighbouring states with skills for international career opportunities. Hari Babu Kambhampati, Governor of Odisha, inaugurated the academy, and also flagged off the 'Skill on Wheel' mobile training unit.
Noida International University's School of Fine Arts and Design hosted Abhibyakti 2025, its annual art exhibition, in association with NIDM Young Minds Workshop. Over 1,000 students participated. The Waste Out of Wonder (WOW) Park, an environmental art initiative, was also inaugurated.
IIT Roorkee inaugurated its Metaverse Zone facility — equipped with extended reality (XR) tools, including full-body haptic suits, gesture-recognition gloves, 360° cameras, VR headsets — at Rethink!: The Tinkering Lab.
The Corporate and Alumni Relations team of FORE School of Management launched the FOREver Connected event series to strengthen industry-academia relationships to develop industry-ready Management graduates.
Drishti IAS has launched an update to its Drishti Learning App and introduced a suite of AI-powered tools to improve the experience of UPSC aspirants. It is now available on Android and iOS.
Leapscholar partnered with the Duolingo English Test to provide Indian students with preparation tools for the English test. This includes free online masterclasses, live interactive classes, exclusive video lessons, practice tests, and more.
TIT Technocrats, Bhopal, collaborated with KPIT Technologies to launch the Mobility Innovation Studio at its campus to foster innovation and collaboration between academia and industry and provide a platform for students and faculty to work on mobility projects.
The School of Business at UPES, collaborated with INSEAD XR, to conduct an Immersive XR Simulation session for students aimed at enhancing critical thinking and team collaboration.
Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, inaugurated an AI Education Lab at Galgotias University, which aims to provide students with real-world exposure to AI, machine learning, and emerging technologies.
The American India Foundation Trust, in partnership with Ericsson, concluded the first phase of the Ericsson-AIF STEMPowering Project, a digital education project for over 12,500 students across 50 government schools in Uttar Pradesh.
Environmental NGO Smiling Tree was the Green Partner for Samanjasya 1.0, an Intra Mediation Competition by the Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (CADR) and the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. The initiative aimed to foster a culture of resolution over litigation and empathetic and sustainable conflict management.
Research studies
A research team from IIT Guwahati led by Prof. G. Krishnamoorthy from the Department of Chemistry — in collaboration with Prof. Bithiah Grace Jaganathan, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering and research scholars Mongoli Brahma, Arup Das Kanungo, Minati Das, and Sam P. Mathew — has developed a responsive fluorescent sensor that can detect cyanide in water and human cells using only a UV light source. The study was published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.
Researchers from Nagaland University led by Prof. Prabhakar Sharma, Head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, developed bio-based soft technologies to recover valuable resources such as nutrients, biofuels, biogas, and clean water from wastewater. The findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health.
Emilie Chouzenoux from Inria Saclay, France, and Prof. Angshul Majumdar — along with graduate students Stuti Jain, Kriti Kumar and Sayantika Chatterjee — from IIIT Delhi have developed an AI-based method that could help doctors treat drug-resistant infections by recommending alternative antibiotics using existing medications.
Convocations
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) organised a convocation for 518 young members from the eastern region. Samrat Choudhary, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, was the chief guest.
Jaipuria Institute of Management hosted a convocation ceremony for its Lucknow, Noida, Jaipur, and Indore and, New Delhi campuses. Over 1,200 students received their degrees. Jagdeep Dhankhar, Vice President of India, was the chief guest.
International Management Institute (IMI) Delhi, hosted its 41st convocation ceremony for 428 graduating students. Sanjeev Krishan, Chairperson of PwC India, was the chief guest.
Awards
Online learning platform AASOKA has been ranked as the #1 EdTech Rising Star globally by TIME and Statista.
IIIT Bhagalpur was declared the overall champion at the eighth edition of NMIT Hacks 2025, a national hackathon hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT), Bengaluru. NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology was placed second followed by VTU and RLJIT as joint third place.
Arpan Pathak (CSE third year), Pabitra Nath (ECE first year), Sankha Singha Mahapatra (ECE second year) and Suman Patra (CSE-IoT first year from Techno Main Salt Lake campus were the winners of the National Space Hackathon 2025, jointly organised by ISRO and IIT Delhi.
UNIVO Education was placed fourth in the TIME World's Top Ed-tech Rising Stars of 2025 ranking.
Oxford International Digital Institute was recognised as the Rising EdTech Organisation of the Year at the Ed-Falcon Global Awards 2025, held during the EdTalk World Conference in New Delhi recently.
Partnerships and collaborations
BITS Pilani signed an MoU with The University of Manchester, the U.K., to deliver quality academic degree programmes, undertake joint research, provide avenues for industry collaboration, co-supervision of doctoral studies, and facilitate dual or joint degrees regulated by the UGC and AICTE.
Bisleri International has signed an MoU with National Book Trust and Centre for Environment Education to develop and distribute an educational book on plastic waste management for schools in the country. Bisleri will sponsor the printing of one lakh books in 48 languages.
IIT Palakkad has signed an MoU with Autodesk Inc. to foster immersive learning, research collaboration, and curriculum innovation in Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC), and Design and Manufacturing.
Comviva signed an MoU with the University of Southampton Delhi to strengthen industry-academia ties and co-develop strategic initiatives focused on talent development, collaborative innovation, and community impact.
The University of Birmingham and University of Glasgow in the U.K. have partnered to establish a new graduate careers role based in India to provide tailored employability support to returning graduates by collaborating with Indian employers, alumni networks, and industry advisory boards.
Virohan and Lenskart have launched the SureStart programme to equip students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills essential for the ophthalmic field. It offers two pathways: a three-year B.Sc. in Ophthalmic Techniques and a four-year Bachelor of Optometry.
Mohan Babu University has partnered with Pennsylvania State University, the U.S., to launch a Joint Degree Programme. Students will complete their first two years at MBU and the remainder at Penn State.
Envision Energy India partnered with IITB-Monash Research Academy for innovation and research in Cybersecurity and Grid Stability and will sponsor Doctoral Research for four years for two scholars.
Amity University Online signed an MoU with Hockey India to provide educational opportunities and scholarships to active Hockey India players at the district, state, national, and international levels.
Pointo has announced a collaboration with Jadavpur University (JU) to transform fossil fuel-powered cars into fully electric vehicles (EVs). This collaboration will showcase batteries as power sources and enablers of transformation.