XPRIZE, the global leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, announced the five finalists advancing in the USD 15M Global Learning XPRIZE which includes Chimple, a team from Bangalore. Each of the five finalists were awarded with a USD 1 million milestone prize. Chimple is developing a learning platform aimed […]
Indian institutes continued to perform poorly in global university rankings with Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore sliding in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2018 published on Tuesday. Though IISc remained the top university in India, it was placed in the 251-300 groupings of the best universities, a fall from the 201-250 […]
The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) will, on Thursday, inaugurate the India-Japan Study Centre on its campus to promote understanding between the two Asian countries through research, teaching and policy outreach efforts. IIMB director G Raghuram said, “At macro level, there are complementary factors between India and Japan in the sphere of economic development. We […]
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-2018 place Newcastle University 175th in the world, up from its position of 190th in 2016. The University scored particularly highly in the research and international outlook components of the survey, ranked in the top 100 for its proportion of international staff. Professor Chris Day, Vice-Chancellor and President, Newcastle […]