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The first Indian to win the International Booker Prize is Geetanjali Shree.

Geetanjali Shree has won the International Booker Prize for the first time, making her the first Indian writer to do so. Her work Tomb of Sand, a family drama set in the aftermath of India’s partition, follows an 80-year-old lady after her husband’s death. It was the first Hindi-language novel to make the £50,000 shortlist. […]

The education shortfall: The drop in performance in the upper grades is a wake-up call for the federal government and the states

The findings of the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 demonstrate the magnitude of the learning loss caused by Covid-19-induced school closures. Pupils in classes 3, 5, 8, and 10 (part of the survey sample) showed a significant drop in performance, with average mathematics scores for class 3 students decreasing 15 points from 2017 and for […]

BYJU’S AND SPELLING BEE CHAMP ZAILA AVANT-GARDE ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION TO INSPIRE LEARNING PASSION

BYJU’S, the world’s premier education technology firm, announced today that Zaila Avant-garde, the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion, has joined the company as its first American youth ambassador. Avant-garde is already a BYJU student, and as part of this relationship, she will be a high-profile champion for inspiring other young learners to pursue their […]

According to a UK survey, Indian instructors are making effective use of educational technology.

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Indian teachers shown resourcefulness in utilising edtech tools to keep kids learning and track their progress so that they could solve learning gaps when schools reopened, according to a UK report released on Thursday. The study, titled “Effective Assessment and Progress Monitoring in an Online Environment,” took place in India, Bangladesh, […]

The governments of Canada and British Columbia invest more than $4.7 million in French-language postsecondary education in British Columbia

Education is key to ensuring the equality of our two official languages in the education system, from early childhood to postsecondary. To support official language minority communities and maintain the vitality of the French language, we need to work with partners and invest in the French education system, particularly postsecondary institutions. Today, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, […]