Education Briefs: Jindal law school scholarships

Jindal law school scholarships Sonipat, June 3. The Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat will award 500 scholarships to students joining the school in the new academic year 2022-23. “JGLS has decided to award 500 scholarships to meritorious students who join JGLS with high merit in the entrance exam and whose annual parental income is less than the limit prescribed by the university, in the new academic year 2022-23. During the past 13 years since it was established, O.P. Jindal Global University has awarded scholarships valued over Rs.250 crore with almost half the students who graduated having received some scholarship amount. This is important to ensure equity and access while maintaining the highest standards of excellence in legal education,” says Dr. C. Raj Kumar, founding vice chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat (Haryana). According to Raj Kumar, JGLS scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit-cum-means. Students from households with annual income above Rs.30 lakh are ineligible. Merit is determined by scores in the national level entrance exam LSAT-India. “We strictly implement the household income criterion to ensure that the scholarships are awarded to those who need it most,” he said in a statement issued by O.P. Jindal Global University. In the EW India Higher Education Rankings 2022-23, JGU is ranked India’s #1 private liberal arts and humanities university. BYJU’s latest acquisition Bengaluru, May 11. Great Lakes E-learning Services Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi-based company of the Bengaluru-based edtech BYJU’s Group has acquired Singapore-based Northwest Executive Education (NEE), a global provider of executive education programmes. “NEE, with its portfolio of high-quality leadership programmes from some of the world’s best universities will augment the high quality, skill-based professional learning offerings of Great Learning to collaboratively realise the goal of becoming the world’s largest provider of executive education, continuing education and lifelong learning,” said Mohit Jain, founder-CEO of NEE in a media statement. Northwest offers executive education programmes of universities such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Yale, UCLA, University of Chicago, National University of Singapore, among others on business management, leadership, technology, healthcare, and innovation to executives in 50 countries. Great Learning collaborates with the best universities worldwide including Stanford and Northwestern universities (USA), National University of Singapore (NUS), Deakin University (Australia), IIT-Madras, IIT-Roorkee (India) and others to enable them to deliver degree, diploma and certificate programmes. “The guiding philosophy of both companies is to make high quality education accessible, and equip learners with the skills required to succeed in the new digital economy. NEE will augment Great Learning’s efforts to provide learners across the globe with best in-class learning opportunities from the world’s top universities,” says Mohan Lakhamraju, founder-CEO of Great Learning. Fynd’s new programmes Mumbai, May 24. Reliance Industries-backed Fynd, India’s largest omnichannel platform and multi-platform tech company, invites its fourth batch of students. The academy provides technical and practical skills training to freshers and working professionals. Applicants who clear the generic Fynd Academy Entrance Exam are eligible to enrol in courses of their…