“The number of transactions for edtech increased by an incredible 69% immediately after the lockdown (April-May 2020 versus January-March 2020). The impact of the pandemic-induced lockdown on the edtech sector has been fairly positive, according to the online payments solution provider PayU’s digital expenditure survey. PayU has mapped the impact of Covid-19 and lockdown as
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Diwakar Chittora, CEO, IntelliPaat IntelliPaat provides online instructor-led training, self-paced e-learning training and corporate training, and offers more than 150 courses for professionals. It has over 6 lakh professionals learning from about 55 countries and more than 200 corporates using its courses for upskilling their employees, says Diwakar Chittora, CEO, IntelliPaat. In an interview with
The National Education Policy 2020 draws attention to the development of creative imagination based on the principle that education must expand cognitive aptitude including literacy and numeracy. By Anirudh Khaitan The only thing that separates humans from other living beings is the ability to make a “choice.” This is in essence what makes us humans.
Class 10 exams cancelled. Representative mage In the wake of worsening COVID-19 situation, ICSE and ICE board examinations have been cancelled for Class 10. The status of exams for class 12 remains the same as the previous order – Class 12 Exam (offline) will be conducted at a later date. This has been confirmed by
Vishal Agrawal, MD, India & SAARC, Avaya When the first lockdown was announced last year in March, educational institutions were one of the first to have been closed, and yet education delivery didn’t stop, even though these institutes faced challenges in transitioning to fully online education delivery. “Unlike the IT or healthcare sectors that were