The latest education stories from the Impact desk.
Following the NEET controversy, India may be approaching one of its largest educational technology transitions. Proposed computer-based testing reforms increasingly reflect broader conversations around trust, infrastructure and the future of examination systems.
On International Literacy Day, a look at how community-driven initiatives — from Delhi's slum classrooms to Arunachal's roadside libraries — are widening access to literacy beyond India's formal education system.
JoSAA Round 5, KCET's final round, and ICSI CSEET results are all landing this week. Beyond individual student outcomes, these results quietly shape the engineering and finance talent India's economy will run on for the next decade.
Hyderabad edtech byteXL has raised $9 million (about ₹86.7 crore) in a round led by Elevar Equity, with Kalaari Capital and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, to embed technology and AI training inside engineering degrees in smaller cities.
Arivihan, an Indore-based AI learning platform whose subscribers come overwhelmingly from smaller towns and rural India, has raised $10 million in a Series A co-led by Accel and Prosus. It plans to expand across four Hindi-heartland states and deepen its vernacular content.
IIM Bangalore has signed two agreements with the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the National Minorities Development & Finance Corporation. Its Centre for Public Policy will independently monitor 43 PM VIKAS training centres across five southern states, while NSRCEL will support entrepreneurship among minority communities.
Imagine Learning, a US K-12 curriculum and learning technology company serving more than 18 million students, has opened a Bengaluru centre to build AI, engineering and product capabilities. It has already hired about 85 people in the city and expects to reach around 100 by the end of 2026.
IIT Kharagpur and upGrad have expanded their executive AI portfolio from four to seven programmes after a 3x quarter-on-quarter rise in enrolments, drawing senior professionals from 133 Indian cities and seven countries.
Electric two-wheeler manufacturer Ather Energy has signed MoUs with four educational and skill-development institutions to build a dedicated talent pipeline supporting its manufacturing expansion in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.