Information on admissions, scholarships, new courses, research studies and other events at schools and colleges
Teen Indie Film Awards (TIFA) 2025
Hombale Film is collaborating with RV University’s Teen Indie Film Awards (TIFA) 2025, a platform to recognise and celebrate excellence and creativity in filmmaking by school and university students from across the globe. Awards are given in two categories: Teenage Filmmakers (13-19 years) and Emerging Young Filmmakers (20-25 years). Five filmmakers will get a chance to develop their projects with Hombale Films.
Deadline: March 14
More details at https://tinyurl.com/yd62hkr9
AECC Education Loan Day
AECC Study Abroad Consultant has launched AECC Education Loan Day to help students secure financial support for overseas education. Representatives from banks will explain loan eligibility criteria and the loan application process. The initiative goes on till May. Visit for more information.
Admissions and scholarships
Imarticus Learning has partnered with the SRM Institute of Science and Technology to launch a two-year full-time M.Sc. Fintech course.
Eligibility: Graduates from any field.
Deadline: March 28.
Details at https://tinyurl.com/ye7kmtz5
JAIN Online has launched a six-month Generative AI Certificate Programme for aspiring learners seeking to upskill or integrate AI into their work.
Eligibility: Open to those who have completed 10+2 or graduates
MDI Gurgaon has extended the deadline for applications for its Fellow Programme in Management to February 28. For more information, visit https://tinyurl.com/sv6w6dzy
Yes Germany has announced an Admission Alert for Indian students aspiring to pursue Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees across various disciplines, including Engineering, IT, Business Administration, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive Engineering, in Germany. Yes Germany offers free consultations to guide students through the process, including university selection, application processing, visa guidance, language training, pre-departure support, and post-departure assistance.
Deadline: March 15.
For more information, visit https://www.yesgermany.com/
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, the U.K., has launched a new one-year full-time M.Sc. Sustainability Innovation Leadership programme, beginning September 2025. Scholarships are available for international students.
Eligibility: A first-or upper second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in disciplines related to Engineering, Business, Management, Architecture, and Design.
Details at A webinar about the course will be held on March 12. Those interested can register at https://tinyurl.com/2arx2wuk
The University of Sheffield, the U.K., invites applications for its M.Sc. Autonomous and Intelligent Systems course starting in September 2025. International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarships are available.
Eligibility: Minimum 2:1 UG Honours degree in Engineering, Maths and Physics. Overall IELTS score of 6.5 with minimum 6.0 in each component, or equivalent.
Details at https://tinyurl.com/2pfkrv6h
PhysicsWallah Institute of Innovation (PW IOI) has announced a scholarship worth ₹5 crores to be disbursed through the PW Common Entrance Exam (CEE). More information at https://pwioi.com/
Events
The Department of Commerce – Shift I, Stella Maris College (Autonomous), Chennai, hosted an International Conference on Marketing Innovations and New Technologies for Digital Future on the theme Techtonic Shifts in Marketing. Key speakers were Saji Abraham, Director Operations, Schouten Europe; Chackochen Mathai, Founder and CEO, Franchising Rightway; Guedes Ribeiro Odete Maria Chief Finance Officer, Lactalis India; Yogesh S., Group Head HR-Enterprise Business, Tech Mahindra; Dibyajyoti Datta General Manager L&D Indian Oil Corporation; P. Ramachandra Rao General Manager-Finance KCP Ltd.; Amudha Kannan Director – Digital Technology Services, IDP Education Digital Campus, Chennai; and Dinesh Baluraj, Founder and CEO, Yali Aerospace. Dr. Alexander Rukshan, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, gave the Valedictory Address.
Hyundai Motor India Foundation has disbursed scholarships worth ₹3.38 crore to 783 students from underprivileged backgrounds, under its Hyundai Hope Scholarship Programme. The awardees include 440 competitive exam aspirants and 343 IIT students
Study Group hosted Destination USA: Your Route to Success, an education fair featuring 11 U.S. universities, including DePaul University, Florida Atlantic University, James Madison University, and so on. Over 200 students participated.
Samsung R and D Institute India, Bengaluru, inaugurated the Samsung Innovation Campus at Karnataka’s first all-women’s engineering college Geetha Shishu Shikshana Sangha Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, Mysuru. It will train young women in AI, IoT, Big Data, Coding and Programming to make them industry ready.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has collaborated with 15 global institutions in the creation of DiversityOne, a dataset that sets new benchmarks in modelling everyday human behaviour using smartphone sensor data. The paper, DiversityOne: A Multi-Country Smartphone Sensor Dataset for Everyday Life Behaviour Modelling, has been accepted by the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) journal,
byteXL celebrated its fifth anniversary. Since its inception in 2020, the platform has partnered with 31 colleges reaching 100,000 students
Smiling Tree collaborated with the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, as the Green Partner for the first Veritas: ILC Freshers Moot, organised by the Moot Court Society. Law students showcased their research and courtroom skills.
Heartfulness International School, Hyderabad, hosted a two-day Sustainability in Classroom initiative. Patricia Scotland, Secretary-General of Commonwealth Nations, interacted with students.
eVidyaloka has launched a lab in Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Urban District, with support from Brillio, Snowflake and Smrti Academy to equip over 2,000 students from government schools with Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths (STEAM) skills.
Zamit hosted a webinar Beyond Storytelling: The Pedagogical Power of Stories. Over 550 educators, including Simi Srivastava, storyteller and Founder of Kathashala, explored storytelling techniques for the classroom.
Canadian International School, Bengaluru, hosted a Model United Nations on the theme Paving a Road to Recovery. The event focused on global conflicts and diplomatic solutions. Over 270 students from 15 schools participated. Swati Mitra, CEO of the Centre for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, and Padmashree Balaram, a leader in climate action and clean technology, also spoke at the event.
Amity University, Mumbai, hosted the convocation for the class of 2024 where over 1,505 students received their degrees. The Best All-Round trophies, 34 gold, 35 silver, 15 bronze medals and the Shri Baljit Shastri Award and Dr. K. Ashok Chauhan Scholarship were also awarded.
JBCN International School, Mumbai, held its Family Math Night showcasing performances that illustrated how art and Maths were intertwined with rhythmic patterns, geometric formations, and more.
BITS Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus’ batch of 2005 has announced a ₹1 crore gift to fund a 100% scholarship for a girl student at the campus.
FIIB hosted the 15th edition of the Meraki Business Plan Competition with students from IISc Bangalore, IIT-Kharagpur, SRCC, IIT-BHU, and other institutions participating. Five groundbreaking start-ups were recognised from over 100 student teams.
Project Udaan, an initiative by The Innovation Story, hosted RoboRise, a programme in which students from government schools in Mumbai built robotic cars from scratch and developed prototypes to tackle real-world issues to showcase their learnings from the TEM education programme.
S.P. Jain School of Global Management announced its placement outcomes for Global MBA (GMBA) and Master of Global Business (MGB) programmes for the class of 2024 with 87 students being placed across companies such as Rivoli Group, KPMG, Protiviti, GEP, Hilti Emirates, Grant Thornton, Kantar, Redington Gulf, Emirates, among others.
The ASSOCHAM Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR), and the Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute, New Delhi, organised an Illness to Wellness handwashing awareness demonstration for students from classes 3 to 5 and specially-abled children.
Stonehill International School hosted its Technofest, which saw over 200 students across six cities participate in events such as Hackathon, Makeathon and Formula 1 RC car racing competitions.
The IC3 2025 Regional Forum in Tamil Nadu brought together educators, counsellors, students, and government representatives to explore key issues surrounding career counselling, student well-being, and holistic development.
Students from Mumbai’s municipal and government-aided schools showcased their artistic skills at Kala Ka Karawaan, an initiative by Salaam Bombay Foundation.
Over 50 students and faculty from Havant and South Downs College and Park Community School (PCS) visited Manav Rachna Educational Institutions under the U.K. government’s Turing Scheme. The programme involved interactive sessions, hands-on projects, and industry-relevant learning experiences.
IIT Jammu concluded a three-day series of entrepreneurship and innovation events, bringing together industry leaders, investors, researchers, educators, and students from across the country. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh was the chief guest.
FORE School of Management hosted Oraculum 2025 on the theme Viksit Bharat: Catalysing Innovation, Sustainability, and Inclusive Growth for a Global Future. The event gave students an opportunity to interact with industry leaders, gain exposure to emerging business trends, and refine the skills necessary to thrive in the modern workforce.
Mettl’s new study, India’s Graduate Skill Index 2025, analyses Indian graduate employability amidst the rise of AI and automation. Key findings: overall employability declined to 42.6% from 44.3% in 2023; Indian graduates demonstrated a strong aptitude for AI and ML roles; 50% of graduates possess soft skills needed for AI/GenAI collaboration, but creativity needs improvement; and more.
The International Education group at Cambridge University Press and Assessment announced an expansion of its series of Cambridge Checkpoint tests. A third test series will be introduced in March to meet rising demand. It will also introduce a one-week timetable for each series and move the May series to a later date to better suit schools’ needs.
Prof. Anurag Sharma, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, and research scholar Souvick Kumar Shaw, from NIT Rourkela, have used machine learning to evaluate groundwater quality for irrigation in Sundargarh district, Odisha. The findings were published in the Water Quality Research Journal (https://tinyurl.com/5hcxatyd).
A study by Prof. Vikas Srivastava, ONGC Chair Professor; Prof. Sowmya Subramaniam, Associate Professor, Finance and Accounting; and research scholar Vidya Mahadevan from IIM Lucknow has shown that the expansion of non-carbon intensive lending can improve the core of loan portfolios of Indian banks. The findings were published in the Finance Research Letters journal.
A.M. Jain College hosted The Spark 2025, its inter-collegiate event in which students from over 35 colleges participated. The chief guest was Padma Priya, founder and managing trustee of Vidhai Vidhaipom.
Jindal Global Law School of O.P. Jindal Global University has launched the K.K. Luthra and Nirmal Luthra Centre for Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Studies to promote fair, equitable, and effective legal systems worldwide and advance comparative legal scholarship, policy innovation, and more. The event was held to commemorate the birth centenary of K.K. Luthra, senior advocate, Supreme Court of India,
Anant National University (ANU) hosted two international events: an International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices: Designing Sustainable Futures; and the third edition of WITH Festival, on the theme Borderless: Global Indigenous Futures, which celebrated indigenous storytelling through contemporary media.
Manav Rachna Dental College, Faridabad, hosted, the 28th Indian Orthodontic Society (IOS) Postgraduate Convention. Orthodontic experts, postgraduate students, and researchers discussed advanced techniques in orthodontics. A highlight was the launch of 2.0 Smiling Bharat, an initiative to enhance orthodontic awareness and accessibility across India.
Appointments
Vijaybhoomi University has appointed Prof. Vijay Pereira as the Director Dean of KEDGE Business School’s affiliate campus at Vijaybhoomi University.
The University of Southampton has appointed Professor Eloise Phillips as Academic Provost, and Sagaya Amalathas as Director of Learning and Teaching for the New Delhi campus.
AAFT has appointed Nikkhil Beri, a Grammy award-winning producer, as the Industry Dean at AAFT School of Music.
Awards and rankings
Wipro held the 14th edition of Wipro earthian Awards 2024 at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. Over 100 schools were recognised for their exceptional effort and 23 schools from various states were chosen as winners. The full list of winners can be found at https://t.ly/DTbVn
Lakshmi Soumya Emani, a Ph.D. scholar in Biotechnology, KL Deemed-to-be University, was conferred the Neurochemistry France Travel Award.
IIT Kanpur’s C3iHub announced the winners of the HACK IIT-K Global Cyber Security Hackathon 2025. In the Startup Track, Naman Arora from IIM-Lucknow’s Noida campus was the winner for his Close AI Tech. In the Solution Track, Team Jr. Boka from Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology, Mumbai, bagged the first prize.
Abhishek Singh, Class 9, Sunbeam School, Varuna, Uttar Pradesh; Aarna Bajpai,Class 10, City Montessori School, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; and Jasreen Bindra, Class 11, Ryan International School, New Delhi, won the QS I-GAUGE PACT-Star Awards 2025 for their sustainability initiatives.
ITM Vocational University, Gujarat, was awarded a B+ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong ranked 44 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 and 36 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
MoUs and partnerships
i-merit has signed an MoU with Sri Sai Group of Institutes to implement its courses as part of the i-merit Accelerate and Elevate programmes for over 300 students across its six institutions.
FinX has signed an MoU with KBP Modern College to introduce a B.Com programme in Capital Markets.
IIM Nagpur signed an MoU with Skyline University College, Sharjah, UAE, to foster innovation and research, academic excellence, and industrial expertise for students and faculty.
Mohan Babu University has signed an MoU with L&T Edutech under the Educate India programme to equip students with industry-relevant skills.
Medicaps University has partnered with South Korea’s Woosong University and Malaysia’s INTI University, to launch a student exchange programme. Students from the two foreign universities will undertake semester-long studies with focused research on Indore’s urban development challenges.
Plaksha University and Tabreed India, in partnership with IFC’s TechEmerge programme, will pilot a sustainable cooling solution using Phase Change Material – Thermal Energy Storage at Plaksha University’s campus.
Bajaj Foundation, with support from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the Department of School Education and Literacy has launched a nationwide campaign to address India’s mounting electronic waste crisis. It will engage over one lakh students across 650 schools in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu in its first phase.
IHMR University, Jaipur, organised the Global Health Management Research Conference to focus on leveraging AI-driven solutions for innovation in health management.
Modern Public School, New Delhi, concluded a seven-day Indo-Azerbaijani cultural exchange programme and hosted 13 educators from Baku, Azerbaijan.
Posspole has signed an MoU with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India to collaborate on skill development initiatives in the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing sector.
A delegation from Newcastle University, led by Chris Day, Vice-Chancellor and President, visited India and entered into partnerships with institutions such as IIT Delhi and O.P. Jindal Global University, and discussed educational collaboration and innovation.
Godrej Enterprises Group signed an Mou with Tata Indian Institute of Skills to support youth training in Industry 4.0 technologies, robotics, and automation.
The Automotive Skill Development Council signed an MoU with Steinbeis University, Germany, to introduce a 1+1 Master’s Programme to provide students with global exposure, industry-relevant education, and enhanced career opportunities.
One Tara by DEVI Sansthan has signed MoUs with leading educational institutes across four states at the Leadership Circle 2 held in Lucknow. The aim is to empower educational institutes through innovative, evidence-based interventions.
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