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Central government is developing a policy to regulate edtech players

The central government is developing a policy to regulate the country’s edtech players. The proposed policy aims to reduce monopolies and prevent some edtech platforms from exploiting students through lofty promises or unfair practises. The Union Education Ministry is in discussions with the Ministries of Law and Electronics and Information and Technology (MeitY) to develop a common policy for the sector, which has seen a surge in the last two years. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on January 3 said he respects edtech firms and is not against their business growth….

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Edtech startup Masai School acquires data analytics firm Prepleaf for $1 million

Masai School, an edtech and skilling startup based in Delhi, has paid $1 million for Prepleaf, an end-to-end placement preparation company specialising in Data Analytics. Prepleaf, founded in 2017 by IIT Kanpur alumni Ankit Agrawal, Amit Saharan, and Aman Singhal, provides 5-month Data Analytics courses. Masai will now offer courses in Data and Business Analytics in addition to Web Development and UI/UX Design, aiming to become India’s one-stop destination for outcome-based education, according to founder and CEO Prateek Shukla. The acquisition comes after the company announced an undisclosed funding round in October from Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and CRED founder Kunal Shah, as well as a Series A round earlier this year led…

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Meta, CBSE partnership to enable 10 mn students embrace immersive tech

Meta (formerly Facebook) will expand its partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to provide a curriculum on digital safety and online well-being, as well as augmented reality (AR), to over 10 million students and 1 million educators in the country over the next three years. Furthermore, in accordance with the government’s vision of universalizing education, Meta and CBSE will democratise the high school curriculum by providing students with online access to quality educational content via modules that will be made available on CBSE’s website. Meta founder and…

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Edtech major Byju’s announced the acquisition of GeoGebra

Edtech company Byju’s acquired Austria-headquartered GeoGebra. GeoGebra will continue to operate as an independent unit within the Byju’s Edtech major Byju’s announced the acquisition of Austria-based GeoGebra on Wednesday. According to people briefed on the matter, the acquisition will be a cash-and-stock transaction worth around $100 million. Byju’s made no comment on the size of the deal. “This acquisition complements Byju’s overall product strategy and integrates GeoGebra’s capabilities to enable the creation of new product offerings and learning formats to its existing mathematics portfolio,” the company said in a statement….

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AICRA presents Robotic skill center: Get ready for the future

All India Council for robotics and automation is here to transform the technology education field (Especially robotics and other related technologies) by their initiative to establish robotics skill centers across various institutes in India. This project is expected to help technology students to unlock the full potential of core automation technologies. The robotic skill centers led by AICRA aims to advance the STEM knowledge of member students by offering authorized training programs and career certification. This is an opportunity for institutes to become part of India’s largest community for robotics…

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Microsoft extends its surface laptop lineup for students

Microsoft seems to be eager to extend its Surface laptop lineup. According to reports, a new Surface Laptop is in the pipeline, with features indicating that Microsoft intends to develop the laptop just for students. The laptop is believed to be smaller than the existing Surface Laptop Go and will be Microsoft’s second effort to compete with mini-Chromebooks. Microsoft has assigned device the codename ‘Tenjin,’ and it has an 11.6-inch display. The tiny display screen will most likely feature a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Microsoft would almost certainly…

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Unacademy acquires Swiftlearn

Unacademy announced the acqusition of Swiflearn, an online platform that delivers live face-to-face online tuitions for school students, for an undisclosed amount on Tuesday. According to a release, the acquisition is in line with Unacademy’s ambitions to increase its position in the K-12 category and optimize its product offerings in the field. Swiflearn, founded in 2019 by Abhinav Agarwal and Anand Bakode, is an online platform for academic courses that offers personalized home tuition to students in grades 1-10 in the CBSE and ICSE boards. The platform provides online tuition…

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Redmi note 11 is set to arrive on October 28th

Xiaomi’s most popular Note series is about to receive an update. The Redmi Note 11 series will be released on October 28th, according to the company. New Redmi Note 11 launch posters have been teased, giving us a closer look at this upcoming device. The latest picture shows the Redmi Note 11 in a misty forest colour scheme. On the back, there is a rectangular camera module that looks to house four cameras and an LED flash. The rest of the display is plain, but for a Redmi 5G branding…

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Developing AI that thinks exactly like humans: New research

Creating human-like AI requires more than just replicating human behavior; technology must also be able to analyses information, or “think” like humans, if it is to be completely trusted. The University of Glasgow’s School of Psychology and Neuroscience led new research published in the journal Patterns that uses 3D modelling to analyses the way Deep Neural Networks—part of the broader family of machine learning—process information, to visualize how their data processing fits that of humans. This new effort is intended to pave the path for the development of more trustworthy…

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India’s new drone regulations distilled

The central government has issued the Drone Rules 2021, which establish a far more permissive framework for unmanned aircraft systems than existed previously. Several procedures and permissions have been eliminated under the revised guidelines, a version of which was issued in July, and this is intended to simplify drone operations for civilian drone operators. “The new Drone Rules usher in a landmark moment for this sector in India. The rules are based on the premise of trust and self-certification. Approvals, compliance requirements and entry barriers have been significantly reduced,” Prime…

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