New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia has announced that the scheduled semester exams, which were to be taken online, have been suspended. The varsity’s decision was based on complaints from several students, who said they would not be able to sit for exams online. “The university has received various representations from …
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Nish, Divya Gokulnath’s seven-year-old son, is a happy camper these days. Like many professionals, his mother, the co-founder and director of Byju, India’s largest educational technology (edtech) company, is much more at home. “And my son loves it,” she says with a smile. Why shouldn’t I? Before the movement restrictions …
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Written by Pranav Mukul, Sandeep Singh | New Delhi | Updated: October 19, 2020 7:21:19 am Byju raveendran From school students to working professionals, the pandemic has created a large addressable market for startups in educational technology, or ed-tech, attracting significant interest from private equity and venture capital investors over …
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SoftBank Group Corp. is leading a venture investment round in India education startup Unacademy, increasing its valuation to $ 1.45 billion as online learning surges during the coronavirus pandemic. Investors in the $ 150 million financing include existing backers Facebook Inc. and Sequoia Capital, while SoftBank’s money comes from Vision …
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