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30 July

Connecting Liberal Arts Education to Jobs

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It started as a casual discussion at a LearnLaunch holiday party late last year about the college to career skills gap. At Pragya, we had been working with universities and liberal arts colleges to help students track development of career relevant skills. In parallel, MIT J-WEL had been working with […]

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06 May

Is College Worth It? Demonstrating Career Relevance

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Over 20 million people have filed for unemployment benefits over the past few weeks. Economic and social uncertainty is in the front of parents’ minds. A survey of over 1100 students, released earlier this week, sheds light on how students & families are evaluating enrollment decisions amidst this crisis. Another […]

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02 April

Transitioning to Digital Advising

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Colleges around the country are scrambling to adapt their operations to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. Scaling up online learning platforms and transitioning courses to support online learning is an important step most colleges have already taken.  The disruption to student life, however, goes far beyond the classroom and learning […]

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21 January

Holistic Advising

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A recent report by Georgetown CEW analyzes the ROI of over 4000 colleges, with the notion that more students are questioning the value of the college degree as it relates to career prospects. A growing number of students today are also older, have jobs, and are burdened with

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Guest Blog – What can dating apps teach us about career alignment?
18 December

Guest Blog – What can dating apps teach us about career alignment?

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At first glance the subject of dating apps may appear frivolous in a discussion about serious issues facing low-income working learners, adult learners and first generation students entering post-high-school education or training programs today.  However, on closer inspection, these urgent issues and dating apps

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02 May

Pivoting Towards The Student

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Pragya was founded on the premise that creating a solution to break content silos would unlock massive efficiencies in college campuses. We’ve of course seen this play out spectacularly in several industries. Our team was tailor made to solve these problems in education, since they built a lot of the

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16 December

My Journey Through EdTech

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Meet Ajay Sharda, co-founder of Pragya Systems and a veteran of the EdTech industry. In this interview, Ajay shares his EdTech journey over the years and how it led him to Pragya today.
How did you get into the education industry?
I started my career developing software for the department

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20 November

Why did I start an EdTech Company?

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“You left the world of selling to mobile/telecom operators to jump into a world of selling to non-profit institutions?”, a friend of mine asked me quizzically. I didn’t have a short answer for him then. Here are my thoughts:
Back in 2007, I co-founded a startup in the mobile telecom

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