A school in India that offers an elite education for poor rural families receives 250,000 applications for 200 places. ... The VidyaGyan school is aimed at giving an elite education to rural, ...

VidyaGyan provides education to ... How VidyaGyan is helping underprivileged children of rural India ... Nischal organises career counselling sessions for his peers in the village high school, ...

Janhavi Sharma couldn't be happier. The 11-year-old is the only one in her family of seven girls who's in school. And not just any school. She's studying at a new residential school set on a 30 ...

Vineet and Anupama Nayar are betting $100 million that their low-tech tools will get students to learn in India's notoriously ineffective rural schools.

To provide quality education to students of rural areas, the state government on Monday signed a MoU with SSN Trust for opening seven Vidyagyan Public Schools in the rural areas of the state ...

It is corporate social responsibility initiative, nee social re-engineering with a difference. VidyaGyan, the school project conceived and run by Shiv Nadar, founder of the $5-billion global ...

VidyaGyan – A Rural Leadership Academy of Shiv Nadar Foundation, on Thursday held its first convocation programme. The academy recorded 100% pass rate ...

An excellent all-round article posted at Arabic Knowledge@Wharton covers VidyaGyan, a concept residential school set up in Uttar Pradesh with an aim to a year ago to provide early access to world ...

My father works as a farmer and my mother is a homemaker. Like my family, the major occupation of people in my village is farming, and had VidyaGyan School not selected me in 2012, I would not be ...

Is this the most oversubscribed school in the world? The VidyaGyan Leadership Academy, a boarding school in India's Uttar Pradesh state, is offering an elite education for pupils drawn from the ...