Technology In Education

Physics Wallah plans to hire 2,500 employees across verticals by March

Unicorn edtech firm Physics Wallah plans to hire 2,500 employees in the ongoing quarter across different roles, the company said on Monday. The development comes at a time when massive lay-offs have been announced by several edtech companies including Byju's, Unacademy, Vedantu, FrontRow etc in the past one year. "The hiring spree is aligned with the brand's ambitious growth goals as it continues to provide top-of-the-line learning opportunities to students. The new positions opened up at PW cut across different roles and responsibilities," PW said in a statement. The company at present has built a team of 6,500 employees, including over 2,000 teachers and educational experts. Physics Wallah said that it is hiring faculty members as well as professionals for allied roles like business analysts, data analysts, counsellors, operations managers, batch managers, teachers, and many more. "PW is a growing family and it brings us joy to see more students relying on our platform to learn

ChatGPT can't be credited as an author on research papers: Springer Nature

According to Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, softwares like ChatGPT can't be credited as an author in papers published in its journals

PhysicsWallah, the unassuming underdog among edtech firms in India

While its rivals battled to stay afloat, PhysicsWallah has recorded consistent growth since the pandemic

Indian edtech major Simplilearn trains its sights on boot camps

The Indian edtech major is gearing up to compete with global majors in the space

I hope to attract a bunch of interns from IIT-Bombay: Binance's Rohit Wad

Binance's Chief Technology Officer Rohit Wad talks to with Shivani Shinde about hiring more interns from India, making crypto easy to use and ensuring regulatory compliance

Lawmaker Karti P Chidambaram asks ICAI to investigate Byju's finances

Says nearly 81% of Byju's operating revenue for FY2021 constitutes sale of products like tablets, SD cards and laptops, which is a blatant misrepresentation of facts to classify hardware as edutech

Internet firm Sulekha says will focus on ed-tech, Saas businesses

Company aims to have 125 million people using its English language learning app

Anurag Thakur launches 'Azadi Quest', a series of online educational games

As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur launched 'Azadi Quest', a series of online educational mobile games

How Eduvacancy is changing the way institutes hire teachers in India

The firm's SaaS-based platform has over 500,000 registered educators and 12,750 institutes pan India and matches the right candidate for the right job across regions

Edtech firms LEAD School, Vedantu lay off nearly 100 workers each

In continuing layoffs at edtech platforms in India, industry leaders Vedantu has asked 100 more employees to go and LEAD has also laid off a similar number of staff in the ongoing funding winter

Byju's COO Mrinal Mohit may head India ops as Raveendran focuses on global

Founder may look at the US and Middle East, has been meeting investors and potential acquisition target firms there, say sources

Unacademy buys top K-10 online tuition platform Swiflearn for unknown sum

Founded in 2019, Swiflearn is an online platform for academic courses, which provides personalised home tuition experience from top quality teachers

Online higher education firm upGrad goes bullish on small town India

upGrad said it is witnessing a great response from learners in the tier 2 and 3 cities and small towns in India

Great Learning focuses on job readiness of students, looks to raise $60 mn

Great Learning, an online education site, is focused on an optimal combination of process, technology and people

8 Promising Applications of Blockchain Technology in Education

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