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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Government-run schools were no longer required to give lessons on democratic rights, secularism, federalism and citizenship, among other topics. The decision sparked concerns that the omission of such subjects was politically motivated. These concepts lie at the core of the Indian Constitution but have at times come into conflict with the Hindu-majoritarian ideology of the ruling right-wing BJP, Sahil Husain, an education expert, told DW, adding that parties across India s political spectrum have been accused of using education as a means of propagating their agendas.
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madrasas. This is to execute the aims of the National Education Policy, and the courses will be extended to 500
madrasas. The lessons will include studies of the Sanskrit language, the Bhagavad Gita, the
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Lucknow: The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is facing stiff opposition by autonomous madrasas in Uttar Pradesh for its decision to make the teaching of Hindu epics like Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana mandatory in 100 autonomous madrasas.