Ed4All, Microsoft partner to offer 400 scholarships for girl students
March 11, 2021
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They will also set up BLEAP Microsoft Centre of NIOS Excellence , a digital library in anchor NIOS Study Centres to enable children access digital content
Ed4All, a digital Formal Education platform has partnered with Microsoft to offer 400 scholarships for female students across eight districts of India, starting with Faridabad in Haryana, it announced on Thursday. To drive women’s literacy in India, Ed4All and Microsoft announced that they will set up the BLEAP Scholarship for Woman of Tomorrow. The scholarship will support girls to study from Class 9 to 12 on NIOS and Microsoft Learn curriculum.
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Chennai: On the occasion of Women’s Day 2021, Ed4All – a born digital Formal Education platform – joined hands with Microsoft to roll out 400 scholarships for girl students across eight districts of India, starting with Faridabad in Haryana.
The BLEAP® Scholarship for Woman of Tomorrow will enable girls to study from Class 9 to 12 on NIOS and Microsoft Learn curriculum. In addition, Ed4All and Microsoft will set up BLEAP®•Microsoft Centre of NIOS Excellence, first-of-its-kind Digital Library in anchor NIOS Study Centres across the country to enable children to access digital content on Devices. BLEAP®•Microsoft CoNE will help students who can’t afford to purchase the device for e-learning, to borrow them and accelerate their learning capacities.
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He also added, “It is important to be authentic in Customer Experience or CX, as customers today are extremely discerning. While in the past loyalty would be set in stone when you won a customer, that isn’t the case anymore. Hence it is critical to be authentic in CX”.
Presenting case studies from AdiGroup, Mr. Viswanathan mentioned their recent foray into Education. Sharing a few insights on this he said, “Education is fundamentally a sector where one can create sustainable Social Impact. So we chose to go with the National Institute of Open Schooling platform, (NIOS) – the world’s largest open school based right here in India. Microsoft and we have come together to enable NIOS Study centres and students with Nextgen blended learning technology, BLEAP® from Ed4All. BLEAP® is built on Microsoft tech stack with the objective of impacting 250 million students in India. We are the only digital school offering NIOS curriculum on Jio Platforms and Flipkart
AdiGroup to invest $30 m in Ed4All platform
February 15, 2021
Sanjay Viswanathan, Chairman, AdiGroup and Co-founder Ed4All×
London-based AdiGroup, which recently forayed into India’s ed-tech space, is planning to invest around $30 million into its newly launched digital learning platform Ed4All over the next 2-3 years.
Last week, AdiGroup announced the launch of Ed4All in partnership with the Chennai-based SV Group of educational institutions.
While dozens of ed-tech platforms jostling for space in the informal (tuition and coaching) sector, AdiGroup is focussing on the unpenetrated formal education sector.
Sanjay Viswanathan, Chairman AdiGroup and Co-founder Ed4All, told
BusinessLine the target audience is those who could not pursue full-time school education.
MIDDLE EAST TELEHEALTH TECHNOLOGIES FORUM
Developer of IoT software for remote health monitoring, HBKiCare has announced that it will sponsor the Middle East Telehealth Technologies Forum to promote remote COVID-19 healthcare.
During COVID-19, the forum brought together leading healthcare companies in the Middle East to share digital health experiences, opportunities and challenges.
Recently launched by UAE-based HBK Department of Projects and Israel-based software developer, SURE Universal, HBKiCare aims to bring new solutions and forge relationships between the regions with a joint product launch.
The collaboration will provide a product that powers a universal remote healthcare IoT platform and home care kit, enabling continuous outpatient monitoring.