-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Burnwal: scholarships website
Ashutosh Burnwal is Founder-CEO of Buddy4Study.com, a scholarships aggregator firm promoted by the Noida-based Smiling Star Advisory Pvt. Ltd. Moreover, he is director of Buddy4Study Foundation and Mentor of Change, the Atal Innovation Mission of Niti Aayog since 2020.
Established in 2011, Buddy4Study.com is an online platform that aggregates information […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Provost of the reputed Bengaluru-based multidisciplinary CMR University (CMRU), an institution awarded private university status by special legislation of the Karnataka state government in 2013, Dr. Tristha Ramamurthy is also founder-director of the Bengaluru-based Ekya Schools — a chain of five K-12 progressive schools. CMRU with its constituent technology, business management, law and […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Gadiraju: industry-aligned programmes
Kali Prasad Gadiraju is chairman of the Hyderabad-based EThames College (estb.2009) affiliated with Osmania University which offers three undergrad programmes (BBA, B.Com and BCA) to upskill students to make them industry-ready and secure well-paid employment.
Newspeg. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, on February 19, Gadiraju launched the EThames Global School […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Chopra (centre): new-age study programmes
Co-founder of the Kolkata-based PS Group of Companies with interests in real estate, Pradip Chopra is also chairman of the Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship & Development (iLEAD, estb.2010) — a CSR initiative of the PS Group — established with a capital outlay of Rs.50 crore and built […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Nayar: enjoyable technology utilisation strategy
Corporate captain turned philanthropist Vineet Nayar is founder-chairman of the Noida-based Sampark Foundation (estb.2005), an NGO working towards improving learning outcomes in government primary schools in eight states across the country. Over the past 18 years since it was registered, the foundation has positively impacted 10.49 million […]
-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
Sonnad: Lego, football & music formula
Ravi Sonnad is a highly qualified social entrepreneur with over three decades of transnational business experience and currently founder-director of the Singapore-based Enabling Leadership Foundation (ELF). The objective of ELF, which has a headcount of 80 full-time employees and 200 part-time faculty, is to develop leadership […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Patel: deep research history
Edupreneur Mohit Patel is founder-director of the Cambridge (UK)-affiliated The Northstar School, Rajkot (TNS, estb. 2016) — promoted by the family-run Talaviya Trust which also manages RK University. Patel believes TNS is redefining education through innovative pedagogies centred on experiential learning, self-discovery, and strong connect with the environment.
Since […]
-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
A polymath alum of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IIT-Delhi and professor at the high-ranked IIT-Delhi for over three decades (1978-2014), Dr. Bishnu Pal is Founder-Dean of the Ecole Central School of Engineering (ECSE) of the new age, multi-disciplinary Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Promoted by the Mumbai-based Mahindra Group, the well-known heavyweight in automotives (Mahindra & […]
A polymath alum of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and IIT-Delhi and Professor at the high-ranked IIT-Delhi for over three decades (1978-2014), Dr. Bishnu Pal is the founder-Dean of the Ecole Central School of Engineering (ECSE) of the new age multi-disciplinary Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Promoted by the Mumbai-based Mahindra Group, the well-known heavyweight in automotives (Mahindra […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Heinonen (centre): successful Festival of Hope
Finland-born Olli Pekka Heinonen is Director-General of the globally respected Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB, estb.1968) examinations board which offers Primary and Middle Years curriculums, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) school-leaving examinations written by higher secondary students worldwide.
Newspeg. In late […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Sangal: flying start
Gurugram-based Umang Sangal (28) is the founder-promoter of Uplifters Academy Pvt. Ltd, a mint new edtech company (estb.2023), offering skills training programmes and guidance through live online classes which has got off to a flying start. Uplifters is targeting pre and final year undergrads and working professionals in Tier […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Basu: fundraising drive
Eminent social worker A.K. Basu is the secretary of Tollygunge Women In Need (TWIN, estb.1995), the Kolkata counterpart of Belgium-based non-profit TWIN-Satyagraha. The parent organisation was founded by a Belgian couple Dr. Marie Paule Baudot, and Josef (Tor) Mutton in 1995. For over two decades, TWIN Kolkata’s annual budget […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
AJP co-founders Subramaniam & Agarwal (right)
Rahul Subramaniam and Poshak Agarwal are co-founders of Athenaeum Jupiter Pvt. Ltd (AJP, estb.2013), a Gurugram-based study abroad coaching-cum-consultancy facilitating student undergrad admissions into premier universities in 11 countries including the US, UK, and Canada under its brand Athena Education. Currently, AJP has one coaching centre […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Renaud-Coulon: global network
Annick Renaud-Coulon is a transnational expert on corporate universities and the Paris-based Founder and Chairwoman of the Global Council of Corporate Universities (GlobalCCU). She defines corporate universities as “educational structures based in private and public, commercial and non-commercial organisations, to implement the business strategies of the organisation and to […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
McGregor: industry-ready graduates
Professor Dame Heather McGregor is Provost and Vice Principal of the vintage Heriot-Watt University (HWU, estb.1821), Edinburgh’s Dubai campus, which has 4,500 undergrad, postgrad and doctoral students on its muster rolls.
Newspeg. Prof. Heather was in Bengaluru on April 26-27 to further enhance this Scottish university’s profile and visibility among […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Bhandary: enthusiastic public response
Preeti Bhandary is co-founder of Learning Edge India Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru. The company is franchisor of the 130-strong chain of Little Elly preschools in India and two overseas (Kathmandu, Seattle), which provide early childhood care and education (ECCE) to children aged six months-5-years.
Little Elly’s early childhood curriculum — […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Kochhar (left) & Chawla: top level global endorsement
Yogesh Kochhar, an arts and business management postgrad of Punjab University and the American Graduate University (Miami), and Harvansh Chawla, an alum of Delhi University and a Supreme Court lawyer of 25 years standing, are co-founders of the YOL (YourOneLife) Foundation, Dharamshala (YOLF, estb.2019). […]
-Aartie Rau (Mumbai)
Rajpal: committed ECCE professional
Dr. Amrita Rajpal is founder of Edu Learrn Grow (ELG, estb.2019), a Mumbai-based education consultancy which provides well-researched curriculums, teacher development programmes, schools promotion and franchising solutions for the early childhood care and education (ECCE) sector. She is also co-founder of The ABCD Show, an online platform where […]
-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
Schröder (centre) in EW Bangalore office: cutting-edge German technology offer
In the provision of education services and attracting students from abroad, the Federal Republic of Germany (pop. 85 million) — Europe’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced country — is an also-ran despite higher education being provided almost free of charge to all, […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Pennsylvania (USA)-based Barbara ‘Bobbi’ KurshAn is senior innovations advisor of the UPenn Graduate School of Education’s Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate program. According to her, this is a pioneer online program for education leaders, administrators, edupreneurs, researchers and investors.
Newspeg. Last December, Kurshan was in Bengaluru to lead a two-day Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conclave […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Sneha Biswas is founder-CEO of the Bengaluru-based Early Steps Academy Pvt. Ltd (ESA, estb.2021). ESA is an ambitious education start-up that offers a unique after-school online programme modeled on Harvard-style case studies to children in the 8-18 years age group worldwide.
Backed by marquee global investors including Beenext (Singapore) and Taurus Ventures (US), […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Varun Jain is founder-CEO of the Bangalore-based Miles Education Pvt. Ltd (ME, estb.2011, head count: 600). Miles Ed is an an edtech company that provides undergrads and working professionals training — in hybrid mode — to acquire globally accepted accounting certification (CPA, CMA, CFA, FRM) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Ratna Viswanathan is the Gurugram-based CEO of Reach to Teach (RTT, estb.2007), a social impact organisation. “RTT is a UK registered charity and has been supported in its work by The Larry Ellison Foundation since 2007,” says Viswanathan.
The social impact organisation had an organizational shift to India in 2020 to focus on RTT’s […]
-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
With American disenchantment with communist China growing by the day, America’s top-ranked universities are increasingly looking towards India — which currently hosts the world’s largest child and youth population — for students and academic collaboration partnerships. Suddenly American academics have discovered that the English language skills of Indian students and relative autonomy of […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Delhi-based DIYA BADGEL is the new India director of the AFS Intercultural Programs. Promoted in 1915 as the American Field Service (AFS), currently AFS is a US-based non-profit organisation providing multinational exchange programmes for children and young adults to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding required to create a more just and peaceful […]
-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
Hitherto principal of the Chaoyang Kaiwen Academy, Beijing (China), ANDREW LEALE is founding-headmaster of the Harrow International School, Bengaluru (HISB) which is under construction on a 30-acre campus in Devanahalli, a suburb of the garden city (pop.10 million). HISB is the outcome of a collaboration agreement between two heavyweights — the Delhi-based Amity […]
-Summiya Yasmeen (Bengaluru)
Best-selling author, motivational speaker, and self-improvement guru, SEAN COVEY is the Utah (USA)-based president of FranklinCovey Education, a division of FranklinCovey Inc (FCI, annual revenue: $263 million (Rs.2,177 crore) in 2021-22), a publicly-listed company providing assessment training and services in leadership and business management to corporates and individuals.
The progeny of management guru Stephen […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
AJAY GUPTA is founder-CEO of S.K. Educations Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi-based company that owns the Bachpan Play School and Academic Heights Public Schools (AHPS) brands. Over the past 20 years since Gupta ventured into K-12 education, the number of Bachpan and AHPS franchisee schools has multiplied to 1,200 with an aggregate enrolment of […]
Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
JAMES COSTAIN is the newly appointed Head of School at the Legacy School (estb.1984), Bengaluru, ranked among India’s Top 10 international day schools, and #1 in Karnataka and Bengaluru in the latest EW India School Rankings 2022-23. Affiliated with the UK-based Cambridge International and Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB) exam boards, Legacy School has […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
KUSUM BHANDARI and PARIMAL DAS are joint conveners of Udayan Care Kolkata (UCK), the regional chapter of Udayan Care, an NGO founded in Delhi in 2002 by social activist Kiran Modi. Udayan Care provides shelter, education scholarships and vocational training programmes to homeless children. In 2007, philanthropist-educationist Bhandari and Das, former president of […]
Nishant Saxena (Lucknow)
An extra-curricular activity of RANJEET SINGH YADAV, a sub-inspector of the Uttar Pradesh state police has transformed him into a press and social media star in India’s most populous state (215 million). In his off-duty hours, this Ayodhya-based khaki wale guruji (‘teacher in khaki’) runs an informal school for 65 children under the […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Pune-based Sushma Pathare is principal of the free-of-charge Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation English Medium School, Bopkhel (PCMC-EMS, estb. 2016) — one of 26 primary-secondary schools managed by the Mumbai-based Akanksha Foundation in private-public partnership with local governments. Affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, PCMC-EMS provides English-medium education to […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Karun Tadepalli is the Hyderabad and Dallas, Texas (USA)-based CEO and co-founder of byteXL India Pvt. Ltd (estb.2020, headcount: 125). The company has developed an edtech platform that offers second, third and final year engineering undergrads self-learning courseware and guided training programmes in emerging technologies (Devops, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, AI, ML, and […]
-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) School
An indefatigable champion of orphaned and marginalised children, P. Purnachandra Rao is the promoter (founder-secretary) of the Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) School (estb.2002). Sited in Mynampadu village (pop.5,900), an hour’s drive from Guntur (pop.800,000), NICE is a free-of-charge K-10 English-medium residential school affiliated with the […]
Head of School James Costain’s educational philosophy and leadership vision are wholly aligned with the vision and passion for education at Legacy School, Bengaluru. He feels a great honour and privilege in leading the continued journey of Legacy School and its learning community. “Our goal is to authentically progress the journey of the school towards […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Established in 2002, Nanritam (‘truth’) is a Purulia (West Bengal)-based NGO promoted by Ranjana Sengupta, founder-secretary, and Prof. P.K. Giri, president of Nanritam Society, together with five like-minded professionals — Dr. Shyamal K. Datta, Dr. Osman Ghani, Milika Datta, Ranjit Mukherji, and Dr. Bharati Bakshi with Prof. Kaushik Basu, former World Bank chief […]
-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Mumbai-based sex education evangelist Anju Kish is the founder-director of UnTaboo Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.2015). The company conducts age-appropriate and gender inclusive safety and sex education workshops for children in the 8-18 years age group. Over 30 progressive primary-secondary schools including Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Oberoi International, Mumbai, Mayo College, Ajmer and The […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Rajesh Panda is founder-managing director of Corporate Gurukul Pte. Ltd (CGPL, estb.2007), a Singapore-based ed-tech company that offers internships and immersive experiential learning programmes to secondary and tertiary education students in partnership with globally top-ranked universities.
Currently, its eight-week online internship and eight-days on-campus programmes in partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS) […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Aishwarya Rao is the Coimbatore-based director (academics and administration) of the Vivekalaya Group of Institutions (VGI, estb.1989) which owns and manages the CBSE Vivekalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School (estb.1989), Akshyantra Learning Centre (1990) offering the NIOS curriculum, the Cambridge (UK)-affiliated The Vivekalaya’s Prakriya International School (2012), the NIOS-affiliated Bodhi Academy (2018) and the […]
Aruna Raghuram (Ahmedabad)
A committed proponent of play in early childhood education, Bengaluru-based parenting coach, leadership mentor, educator and edupreneur Preethi Vickram is founder-director of the new-age Cambridge (UK)-affiliated Tapas (derived from the Hindi word tapasya meaning devotion, estb.2020). The school which began operations last June (2021) offers project-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) […]
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