News from the world of Education: November 13, 2025

Made to Move Communities challenge

Otis India has launched the sixth edition of its annual Made to Move Communities challenge. This year’s theme invites students to create AI-powered mobility solutions that support communities and first responders in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural disasters. Details at https://tinyurl.com/3539j93b

Admissions and scholarships

FLAME University invites applications for its 2026 intake across UG, PG, and doctoral programmes. It also offers a range of merit and need-based scholarships to support academic excellence and access for deserving students. Details on UG, PG, doctoral programmes and scholarships at https://tinyurl.com/25fu5w9h

KL Deemed to be University has opened admissions for UG programmes (B.Tech, B.Tech Lateral Entry, B.Sc, BCA, BA Economics, B.Com ACCA) and PG programmes (MBA, MCA, M.Pharm, M.Sc Chemistry) across its Andhra Pradesh and Hyderabad campuses.

Entrance exams: The admissions will be done through KLEEE, KLECET, KLSAT, KLHAT, KLMAT exams.

When: November 14 to 18

Details at https://tinyurl.com/p3mppbr3

IIT Gandhinagar launched three six-month fully residential Postgraduate Diploma Programmes, in collaboration with M/s. Futurense Technologies, through the All India National Proficiency Test.

Programmes: AI and Agentic AI Engineering; GenAI and Data Science Engineering, and AI-Powered Software Engineering with Cloud

Eligibility: 70%+ in class 12, and 60%+ in B.Tech

Details at https://tinyurl.com/mryazkcv

Badruka School of Management Hyderabad has opened admissions for its PGDM programmes for 2026-28.

Specialisations: Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Data Analytics and Digital Technologies.

Eligibility: Class 10 and 12 pass from a recognised board; UG or PG degree in any discipline from a recognised institution; candidates should have qualifying scores from either the CAT, GMAT, XAT, or Common Admission Management Test.

Details at www.bsm.edu.in

IMT Ghaziabad invites applications to its PGDM programmes for 2026-28.

Eligibility: A Bachelor’s degree in any discipline with at least 50% aggregate marks. Accepted test scores include CAT 2025, XAT 2026, or GMAT (conducted from January 1, 2022) for IMT Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, and Nagpur. GMAT scores must be submitted to the IMT Central Admission Office by January 15, 2026. CMAT 2026 is accepted only for IMT Nagpur.

Deadline: November 28

Details at www.imt.edu/admissions/pgdm

Muthoot Finance Ltd launched the ninth edition of Muthoot M George Higher Education Scholarships 2025-26.

Eligibility: 90% or equivalent in the qualifying exam (+2); annual family income should not exceed Rs. 2 lakhs; candidates should qualify the relevant entrance exam and should have obtained admission in a recognised educational institution in B.Tech, MBBS, or B.Sc Nursing programmes.

Deadline: November 30

Details at https://tinyurl.com/44d499ca

Events

VidyaGyan School and the Eastern Foundation of Art and Culture held the ninth All India Annual Art Exhibition 2025 with over 80 artists, and workshops like The Art of Seeing by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

The Indian School of Business held its convocation where 173 students received their degrees. S. Radha Chauhan,Chairperson, Capacity Building Commission, Government of India, delivered the keynote address.

SRMIST’s Department of Networking and Communications hosted the H7CTF 2025 finale, a national cybersecurity challenge with over 2,500 participants from more than 20 countries.

With scholar Chandra Bhanu Satpathy as keynote speaker, SAI International School held the Founder’s Memorial Series talk on A Journey of Purpose, celebrating founder Bijaya Kumar Sahoo.

KLH Global Business School’s B.Sc. Animation and Gaming students hosted ARTORIA 2025, an art and tech exhibition showcasing digital art, game prototypes, and interactive media installations.

Arena Animation concluded the Kolkata edition of its Creative Minds 2025 event in which over 1,200 students participated and showcased their skills across animation, visual effects, gaming, and more.

IIM Raipur’s HR Summit 2025, themed People, Purpose, and Possibilities, brought together experts to discuss evolving HR practices for purpose-driven, future-ready organisations.

IIT Hyderabad’s Open Knowledge Initiatives and LTRC organised Bahu Bhasa 2025, featuring panels and workshops on language policy gaps and civic technologies for safer online spaces.

University of Southampton Delhi and McGraw Hill India released the second edition of International Relations – For Civil Services and State Services Examinations to help aspirants master global affairs.

Centurion University, Bhubaneshwar, in collaboration with the National Association of Professional Social Workers in India and the Odisha Professional Social Workers Association hosted the 13th Indian Social Work Conference 2025, where over 500 experts discussed technology, innovation, and social justice.

Glendale Academy hosted the Career Explore Fair 2025 in which over 300 students participated. Students interacted with professionals about career pathways in Law, Aviation, Tech, and more.

Techno India Group Public School–Ariadaha and Howrah Police supported Barandaye Roddur, providing educational access to underprivileged children, under the CBSE Social Empowerment through Work Education and Action (SEWA) Programme programme.

K J Somaiya Institute of Management and Somaiya Vidyavihar University‘s incubator, RiiDL launched the New Venture Investment Project, giving MBA students practical experience in startup investing.

Epson launched a programme to train Indian engineering students in Robotics with practical applications, internships at the Epson Solution Center, Bengaluru, and setting up on-campus Robotics labs at engineering colleges in India.

Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU) and RedVersity launched four programmes for students. These include BBA in Hospital Administration and PG Diplomas in Emergency Health Care; Disaster Management, and Nutrition and Dietetics. The programmes will be offered at the RNTU Bhopal campus.

The Nobel Prize Dialogue India 2025 at IISc Bengaluru, in partnership with the Tata Trusts, themed The Future We Want, featured discussions on inclusion and sustainability with Nobel laureates, scientists, and students.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Rangeet have launched the SEEK© programme in BMC schools, fostering social, emotional, and ecological skills in students.

The POWERCON Group’s CORE Academy launched seven renewable energy courses at Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, aiming to upskill 20,000 students by 2026 for India’s green energy sector.

At the 2025 Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave, organised by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham showcased a real-time landslide warning system that monitors vulnerable slopes and provide early alerts, currently deployed in Kerala, Sikkim, and Odisha.

Room to Read India launched the sixth edition of Har Kadam Beti Ke Sang, its girls’ education campaign, themed #HarKadamBetiKeSang – Financial Literacy Ki Aur Badhe Hum, promoting financial literacy as a key life skill for adolescents.

NIIT University concluded siNUsoid v9: Virtual Vortex, its techno-cultural fest featuring events such as rocket launches, cybersecurity, and AI-ML events with nationwide student participation.

Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research hosted Hiroaki Kuwajima, MD, K&Associates; Raman Madhok, MD, Kahani Designworks Pvt. Ltd., and Sangeetha Madhu, Director, Global Leadership for a session on Navigating Leadership in a Fragmented World: From Tokyo to Silicon Valley to the Middle East. It included a Q and A, where students explored AI and the future of leadership, ethical decision-making, and more.

IIIT Bangalore hosted Synergy, its annual techno-cultural fest, with over 2,400 students from more than 100 colleges participating in hackathons, quizzes, esports, and filmmaking contests.

Through the Google AI Pro student offer, over two million students across India will have access to Google’s AI tools such as Gemini, NotebookLM, Veo 3 in Gemini, and Flow, for free, for the next year.

Thefifth edition of College Board India Forum 2025 was recently held where educators from universities from across the globe participated. it unveiled two Advanced Placement (AP) courses, AP Business with Personal Finance and AP Cybersecurity, which will be available to students in India in 2026.

Over 900 students from Hyderabad and more than 500 from Vijayawada Buildathons qualified for the state-level qualifiers of the OpenAI Academy × NxtWave Buildathon respectively, a prelude to the India-AI Impact Summit 2026. It showcased innovations from B.Tech students of colleges such as GITAM, IIIT Kurnool, and Mohan Babu University

Research

Researchers from BITS Pilani Hyderabad, NIT Warangal and IIT Jodhpur, developed an India-specific Indoor Air Quality Index, revealing household indoor air pollution often exceeds outdoor levels. The findings were published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

Prof. Gopal Das, Department of Chemistry, along with research scholars, Rubi Moral, and Oiyao Appun Pegu, IIT Guwahati, developed a Phase-Selective Organogelator that detects kerosene contamination in petrol and selectively absorbs oil from water. The findings were published in Chemical Engineering.

Researchers from Nagaland University and Assam Down Town University studied Goniothalamus simonsii, an endangered medicinal plant from Meghalaya, documenting its therapeutic uses. The findings were published in Chemistry and Biodiversity.

Srishti Mathur, scientist, Shoolini University, developed a patented biotechnological method to produce xylitol, a low-calorie sweetener from industrial waste, aiding diabetes management.

Researchers Chinmaya Behera from Goa Institute of Management, Ranjan Kumar Mohanty from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar, and Debasis Patnaik along with Biswashree Tanaya Priyadarsini of BITS Pilani, Goa, conducted research that examined the short-and-long-term linkages between economic drivers and the environment, to illustrate the two-way relationship of growth and climate action. The findings have been published in the Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking journal.

Laurels, awards, and rankings

IIT Ropar has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence in Advanced Research, Artificial Intelligence Innovation, and Student Entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

Lovely Professional University ranked 187 in Asia and seven among private universities in India in the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2026.

S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research students Pritish Wadhwa, Stuti Rajesh Shah, and Eshan Sharma won IdeationX 2.0 by SBI Life Insurance, with IIM Shillong students Namita Gupta, Nitika Bansal, and Sakshi Agarwal as first runners-up.

Sukrit Gupta and Sayudh Ray from Delhi Public School, New Town, won the Kolkata edition of TCS InQuizitive.

Pranet Khetan, a class 11 student of Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram, won the national Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2025 for Paraspeak, a system converting impaired speech into clear, real-time speech.

Team AXRIGA from Rathinam Technical Campus, Coimbatore, won GCEM Hacks 3.0, the 24-hour hackathon organised by Gopalan College of Engineering and Management, which was also the runner-up. Team HexaHe from CMR Institute of Technology, came third.

Rachel Tom Antony, a student of IIAD Delhi, won the Best Student Film Award (2D Short Film category) at the ASIFA India Awards of Excellence for Kannimanga — a 14-minute hand-drawn film.

IIM Raipur Swavalamban–STEM startups Agrofab Sustainable and Auroarts were among the Top 5 in Chhattisgarh’s CG TechStart Marathon, organised by the Department of Commerce and Industries, Government of Chhattisgarh.

Class Saathi was featured in the HundrED Global Collection 2026 for its offline clicker-based solution enhancing classroom participation and data-driven learning.

SRM Medical College Hospital won the Best Medical College Hospital (North Zone, Tamil Nadu) award at AHPICON 2025 by the Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI).

MoUs and partnerships

Sanjay Ghodawat University’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, signed an MoU with Takasago Fluidic Systems, to collaborate on research, technological advancement, and skill development.

Mahindra University’s School of Law has partnered with the Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation to establish the Seeding Centre for Peace and Justice on its campus.

IIHMR University signed an MoU with Bryant University, the U.S, for student and faculty exchanges, research collaboration, and graduate study pathways.

byteXL partnered with St. Mary’s Group of Institutions to introduce a digital model for Engineering Education and Digital Skilling, aimed at benefitting over 11,000 students.

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, signed an MoU with Schneider Electric to establish a Centre of Excellence in Human Machine Interface at its campus.

The Directorate General of Training, under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, signed an MoU with Autodesk to enhance digital design and manufacturing skills among faculty and trainers in India’s skill training institutes.

St. John’s Global School, Chennai, signed an MoU with Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) India, to join the WACE network and offer its curriculum from 2026-27 onwards.

IIM Sambalpur partnered with Sri Sri University to foster innovation and research, through joint initiatives including workshops, publications, and student exchange programmes.

Addverb partnered with the IITs, NAMTECH, and NIIT Neemrana to set up Centres of Excellence with cobots and automation tech for research and skill development.

Lissun partnered with The Association of Adolescent and Child Care in India to enhance child and adolescent mental wellness in India by supporting parents, teachers, and counsellors.

IILM University and FITT (IIT Delhi) launched Foundry One Innovation Hub and Accelerator for AI, deep tech, healthcare, defence, biotech, and robotics.

Gopalan Group of Institutions partnered with Coursera to provide students and faculty access to global courses, certificates, and degree programmes.