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In the fast-paced, competitive world of today, working professionals and students are seeking smarter, more convenient means ...

India has over 4500 Ed-tech start-ups that assist over 300 million school students and an additional 40 million higher education students, thanks to the 749 million internet user base as of 2020.

Higher education enrolment rates are still about 27% (18-23-year-olds). In 2012, the unemployment rate among graduates was 20%; it shot up to 34% in 2021. Among postgraduates, it used to be 18% in ...

Private institutions and coaching centres in India commodify higher education, prioritizing individual success over societal ...

Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan has claimed that with over 1,200 universities and more than 46,000 colleges, ...

At the launch of India’s 2020-21 budget last month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about the need to make India’s young people more employable through better higher education opportunities.

Each year, India sends more students abroad than any other country. As of 2025, over 1.8 million Indian students are studying ...

India’s plans to completely overhaul its higher education system and to open it to international branch campuses have been hailed as impressive by observers, although they remain uncertain about how ...

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to ...

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