Information on admissions, scholarships, new courses, research studies and other events at schools and colleges
Institution of Happiness Awards
QS I-GAUGE has opened registrations for the third edition of the Institution of Happiness (IOH) Awards 2025–26, which involves anonymous surveys on aspects such as campus safety, emotional and mental well-being, voice and recognition, personal and holistic growth, support systems and so on.
Eligibility: Schools, colleges, and universities
Deadline: September 17
Details at https://www.happiness.igauge.in/
Future Founders Challenge
UPES’ School of Business, in collaboration with the Runway Incubator, has launched the Future Founders Challenge 2025, a national-level entrepreneurship competition to encourage students to develop solutions to real-world problems, gain hands-on experience of the start-up journey, and showcase their ideas on a national stage.
Eligibility: Students of Classes 9 to 12. Teams must be nominated by the school.
Deadline: September 28
Details at https://tinyurl.com/mw63funw
Terry Fox run
Canadian International School, Bengaluru, in association with the Terry Fox Foundation, will host the Terry Fox Run on September 20, at its Yelahanka campus. It is open to students, teachers, parents, and others from across the city. Email tfr@cisb.org.in or info@cisb.org.in to register. No registration fee.
TEDxGateway Youth
The Museum of Solutions (MuSo), Mumbai, is hosting TEDxGateway Youth on the theme Build Our Tomorrow. The event aims to showcase young visionaries from around the world who have breakthrough ideas and solutions to today’s most critical socio-environmental challenges
Dates: September 18 and 19
For details, visit rb.gy/qmzkv8
Skill2Win
Kotak Education Foundation has launched Skill2Win, a two-month, free vocational education and livelihood programme to equip the youth with professional, communication, IT, and life skills.
Eligibility: Those who passed Class 10, Class 12, appeared for the final-year degree exams, and graduates.
Details at https://tinyurl.com/mv26yd58
Admissions and scholarships
The Faculty of Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, the U.K., is offering 10 International Excellence Award for Postgraduate Taught Masters Students – January 2026.
Eligibility: New, international (non-EU) fee-paying students holding an offer of admission for a full-time Postgraduate Taught Masters degree in the Faculty of Science for January 2026 entry; they must be self-funded.
Deadline: December 12
Details at https://tinyurl.com/4n722xae
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, the U.K., invites applications for its M.Sc. Advanced Computer Science with Data Science starting in January 2026. Scholarships are available.
Eligibility: Minimum second-class (2:2) Honours degree or international equivalent in Computer Science or another numerate discipline with some programming or database experience. Overall IELTS score of 6.0 with no component below 5.5.
The university also invites applications for its M.Sc. Renewable Energy and Decarbonisation Technologies course starting in January 2026. Scholarships are available.
Eligibility: First-or second-class honours degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or cognate subject. Overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in each band.
For details, visit https://tinyurl.com/4dz9et23
The University of Sheffield, the U.K., invites applications for its three-year B.Sc. Biomedical course starting in September 2026.
Eligibility: 80% in Class 12 (All Indian boards) with two Science subjects. Overall IELTS score of 6.5 with minimum 6.0 in each component.
Details at https://tinyurl.com/4dxb9hkf
IIIT Hyderabad’s Division of Flexible Learning has launched an online M.Sc. Data Science programme beginning on November 1.
Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Management.
Deadline: October 12
Details at https://tinyurl.com/3tpp7rp4
Mercer University and Study Group have opened applications for postgraduate study in Accountancy, Business Administration, Business Analytics, Cybersecurity and Engineering with Biomedical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical options. The first intake will be in January 2026. Details at www.mercer.edu
The Duolingo English Test (DET) has partnered with UPI Study to aid international students in their study-abroad journey. Once students complete the DET and receive their score, they will be able to unlock a free, credit-eligible online course from UPI Study. The duo will host a free webinar on September 13, where students can learn more about how to use their DET Score to unlock more opportunities. Register at https://tinyurl.com/49m8ka29
Events
Coursera has announced a new course preview experience with full course features and localised pricing to make content and AI-powered tools accessible and affordable for learners in India. For details, visit https://tinyurl.com/ybhrurd8
Galgotias University celebrated the anniversary of its Galgotias Student- Centred Active Learning Ecosystem (G-Scale) initiative, which aims to enhance student engagement, collaboration, and academic excellence. Prof. Simon Bates, Vice-Provost, University of British Columbia, Canada; and Prof. Richard James, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, participated.
SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Chennai, inaugurated its School of Law building with Justice N.V. Ramana, former Chief Justice of India as the chief guest. It also hosted Lexposium 2025: The Cradle for Future Jurists and its techno-management fest Aarush with Sridhar Vembu, founder of Zoho Corporation as the chief guest.
IIM Lucknow launched a scholarship programme under the Adani Accelerated Leadership Programme. Jeet Adani, director of Adani Airport, was the chief guest.
Jain International Residential School organised a three-day Model United Nations, JIRSMUN 2025, with N.V. Prasad (IAS) as the chief guest. Over 300 students from schools across India and Nepal participated.
Vinayaka Mission’s Law School inaugurated its Centre for Maritime Law (CML), followed by a Maritime Law Summit 2025 on the theme Charting the Course for Cargo, Contracts, and Claims. Justice Syam Kumar V.M, High Court of Kerala, delivered the keynote address.
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC School of Advanced Computing launched a Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence (BSAI) programme, which will be available on Common Application. The first cohort will begin at USC’s University Park Campus in Fall 2026.
The Department of Mathematics (Shift 1), Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women (Autonomous), Chennai, organised a panel discussion session on Vanishing curiosity: Why are students turning away from Basic Sciences, during the national seminar on Mathematics: The Gateway to the Emerging Trends of Technology. Panellists included M. Humayun Kabir from Unity Public School, Chennai; Shabana Tabasum, M.W.A Matric. Hr. Sec. School, Chennai; H. Sameen Fathima from Fathima Basheer Hr. Sec. School for Girls, Chennai; and Z. Kathijathul Kubbra, K-5 Co-ordinator and Vice Principal, Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Tiruchengode.
The Department of Public Relations, Stella Maris College, Chennai, held an International Conference on Reimagining Communications in a Digital Age. A panel discussion was held on Storytelling, Authorship and Audience in Today’s Digital Age. Speakers included N. Ram, director, The Hindu Group; Sabir Haque, Associate Professor, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE; Rachel Jacob, Associate Professor Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan and filmmakers Arumugakumar, Prasath Murugesan and Arivazahgan Venkatachalam.
Noida International University (NIU) celebrated its 15th Foundation Day and honoured faculty and staff with awards.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Apeejay Stya University (ASU), Gurugram, held a two-day international symposium on Media and Indian Foreign Policy, in collaboration with the Indian Council of World Affairs. D. M. Mulay, former High Commissioner to Maldives, was the chief guest.
Global Indian International School (GIIS) Balewadi launched its Junior College wing, which will offer Science, Commerce and Arts streams with flexible subject combinations, and Career Counselling and University Guidance Cell to help students identify career options and provide guidance for college admissions.
Stonehill International School, Bengaluru, hosted the Founder’s Day Run in collaboration with Raadiant Sports. Over 1,600 runners participated.
IMS Noida organised an Inter-Department Cricket Tournament with eight teams of boys and two teams of girls participating.
IIM Kashipur hosted an extended special edition of Tejas: The Leadership Talk Seriesfeaturing Sanjeev Krishan, Chairperson of PwC India; Arnab Roy, Chief Financial Officer of Maruti Suzuki India; Yeshwinder Patial, Chief Human Resources Officer at Morris Garages India; Bhaskar Ghoshal, Senior VP Human Resources, Administration and BIU, SMC Finance; and Sanjay Kumar Varshney, COO, Signature Global.
Modern Public School, Shalimar Bagh, organised a session with environmentalist Swami Prem Parivartan, or Peepal Baba. Students and educators from schools across Delhi-NCR participated.
IMI Delhi, in collaboration with BML Munjal University and supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, hosted the National Conference on Circular Futures: Innovative Strategies for E-Waste Management and Resource Recovery. Speakers included Mandeep Manocha, Co-Founder and CEO of Cashify; Mayank Sinha, Head of Marketing and D2C Business at Attero Recycling; Sahil Jain, Principal Enterprise Architect, Adobe; and Harpreet Kaur Ghai, Vice President, Aspire Impact.
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at KLH Aziz Nagar Campus hosted a national seminar on Recent Advancements in Next-Generation 5G/6G Network Technologies. It was organised by and sponsored by AICTE under the Vibrant Advocacy for Advancement and Networking through Innovation (VAANI) scheme. Professor P. Kishore Kumar from NIT Andhra Pradesh was the chief guest.
Pratishtha Singh, along with Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Jagnoor Jagnoor, and Julie Brown from the George Institute for Global Health synthesised evidence from nine countries across different income settings to show speeding was not just about ignoring rules, but also shaped by social pressure, poor road design, and weak enforcement systems. A paper was published in BMJ Injury Prevention.
ApplyBoard’s Q2 data shows that India remains the U.K.’s largest and most reliable student market. Key findings show that nearly 63,000 main applicant students applied for a U.K. study visa in Q2 2025, a 16% year-over-year increase; over 56,000 visas were issued, a 24% increase from 2024, and the overall refusal rates were at 9%, three times higher than a year ago.
ETS has partnered with Credila to launch the TOEFL Super 50 to aid Indian study-abroad students who have taken the Global Scholar Challenge and registered for the TOEFL test by December 15, with the test to be taken by December 31.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), through its Board of Studies (Academic), organised a Brainstorming Meet for Academic Excellence for industry experts, academicians and professionals to discuss enhancing the quality and relevance of academic initiatives, aligning learning with global benchmarks, and preparing students for emerging areas such as sustainability, fintech, data science, digital learning and industry-linked case studies.
Sundararaman Ramamurthy, MD and CEO of BSE Ltd., spoke to students about financial literacy and responsible investing at an interactive session hosted by Marwadi University, Rajkot.
Chrysalis has launched Chrysalis AI, a next-generation AI-powered Co-Thinker, which aims to bridge learning gaps, improve academic outcomes, and promote inclusive education.
Convocations
The Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering (MPSTME), SVKM’s NMIMS, Mumbai, hosted a convocation for its students. Andre Eckholt, MD, Hettich Group, was the chief guest.
NIT Rourkela held its 23rd convocation for 1,948 students. Brijendra Pratap Singh, CMD, National Aluminium Company (NALCO), was the chief guest.
FOSTIIMA Business School organised a convocation for the graduating batches of 2023 and 2024 PGDM programme. Deepak Vohra, Former Ambassador of India to Poland, was the chief guest.
IIT Roorkee hosted a convocation for 2,614 students. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, delivered the convocation address.
Awards
ESCP Business School ranked first across the U.K., Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland, third in France, fifth in Europe, and seventh worldwide in the Financial Times annual ranking of the top 100 Master in Management programmes. IIM-Bangalore’s two-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) was ranked No 1 in India and #28 worldwide. IMI Delhi was ranked 11 in India and 99 globally.
Team HackXBot (Luvkush Sharma, Sahan Veeresh Angadi, Yash Anand, and Ayush Kumar), students from Faculty of Engineering and Technology at JAIN Deemed-to-be University, came first in the Compute3 Winners category at the Aya Hackathon 2025, Bengaluru edition, for their project, Multi-Chain AI-Powered Crypto Manager.
St. John’s Public School, Medavakkam, was the overall winner in EXOUSIA 2025, an inter-school management conclave hosted by the Department of Business Administration at Madras Christian College. Bethel Matriculation School was the runner-up.
Tunir Sahoo from IIM Kashipur was the National (India) James Dyson Award 2025 winner for his JivaScope, a pocket-sized, AI-powered device that enables anyone to self-screen for heart and lung diseases in minutes.
Pranet Khetan, Class 11 student of Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram, received the Fourth Grand Award in the Biomedical Engineering Category at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2025 in Ohio, the U.S., for his Paraspeak, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, which records slurred or dysarthric speech of stroke survivors, patients with paralysis, Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders and converts it into clear and intelligible speech.
Kruu, a Chennai-based edu-tech company, won The PIEoneer Awards 2025 for Progressive Education Delivery.
Aarav Pandya and Het Upadhyay, students of Billabong High International School, Vadodara, secured first place for their project ValetDroid, in the World Robot Olympiad India Nationals 2025, in the Junior Future Innovators category. They will represent India at the WRO International Championship 2025 in Singapore. They also bagged the Gold Award at Maker Fest Vadodara 2025.
Shreyansh Kalhansh and Divyani from ISB, Hyderabad, were the winners of Moves 2025, Axis Bank’s campus engagement programme. Amarpreet Singh and Ishita Mutneja from IIT-Kharagpur were the first runners up.
MoUs and partnerships
XLRI has partnered with the University of Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne, the University of Bordeaux, the UNESCO Chair at the University of Paris Nanterre, the Danish Consortium for Academic Craftsmanship (DCAC) and the International Institute of Education Consortium of Universities to collaborate on academic programmes, executive education, and research.
Ryan Group of Institutions has partnered with Royal Grammar School Guildford to establish their first school in India, RGSG Bengaluru, which will offer British curriculum, encompassing STEM, sports, art, drama, music, and a co-curricular programme.
CynLr has partnered with IISc to explore the intersection of neuroscience and robotics in an initiative titled Visual Neuroscience for Cybernetics, which will focus on developing perception-led robotic systems that adapt to the real world with the same flexibility as the human brain.
KPMG in India and Imarticus Learning have launched the Global Accounting and Finance Certification Preparation Programme for aspirants pursuing CFA, US CPA, US CMA, ACCA, and FRM certifications. KPMG in India will deliver real-world case studies and expert-led masterclasses and offer internships to the top three performers.
PhysicsWallah (PW) signed an MoU with JM Foundation, to provide academic support to students affected by the recent floods in Punjab and provide targeted academic assistance through free school exam prep and competitive exam guidance.
Sona Star Innovations signed an MoU with the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission to implement a state-wide skilling programme to prepare 3,000 students for careers in global and digital industries over the next five years.
Mahindra University signed an MoU with Japan’s Kagawa University to facilitate student and faculty exchange, joint research, and cross-border learning.
Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science (HITS), Chennai, signed an MoU with Google Cloud and CloudReign Technologies to establish Google Cloud Digital Campus (Elite tier) to foster innovation, digital transformation, and next-generation research. Siddharth Dalwadi, Regional Head, Google Cloud, was the chief guest.
TagHive Inc. has partnered with Pratham Education Foundation to implement TagHive’s Class Saathi learning and assessment solution in Baghpat and Bulandshahr districts of Uttar Pradesh and collaborate on teacher training programmes.
Ambuja Foundation, in collaboration with Yes Foundation, has launched a two-year skilling initiative to train over 1,000 youth across Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal in 12 Ambuja Foundation Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institutes.
SoftwareOne has partnered with Sapno ke Pankh, Gurugram, to launch the DigiSaksham initiative to transform access to digital learning for children from underserved communities and establish fully-equipped, tech-enabled learning spaces across the country.
Mody University of Science and Technology signed a three-year MoU with Vyomini Social Foundation to create a platform for students to engage in impactful community initiatives such as village development projects, sanitation and hygiene promotion, and more.
Monash University, Australia, has launched dual degrees in Information Technology and Computer Science in collaboration with Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies to allow the latter’s students graduate with Bachelor’s degrees from both institutions.
The University of Adelaide College will be known as Kaplan International College Adelaide (KIC Adelaide) following Kaplan’s partnership with the newly formed Adelaide University, a Go8 university created from the merger of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.
NIIT University (NU) has signed and MoU with Addverb Technologies to build a strong ecosystem of innovation, research, and skill development in emerging technologies, particularly Robotics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) has collaborated with Lakshya Digital to launch a new six-month full-time programme with specialisation in 3D Environment Art for Video Games. The programme will begin on September 29.
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