Info Edge’s education portal Shiksha.com is live and provides information for over 70,000 colleges, courses, scholarships and admission notifications (via).
Features:
- Content – The seed content is pretty good and site does look “information heavy”
- Ask & Answer – Y! styled QnA section which allows one to ask free form queries
- Category based info
- College Groups
- Calendar/Alerts – one can set alerts for any event of choice.
Overall, the site seems to be a good start, but lacks depth when it comes to exploring a college or finding relevant content.
For e.g. the college search does not really mean anything – it simply shows the result from Shiksha’s own categories, i.e. groups/community etc. Though I’d expect them to organize the data around the college (as a context), i.e. show related events, info about college and then additional info (like groups etc), the results aren’t helpful.
Apart from ads, Shiksha will be monetized by charging colleges for additional services like
- Ability to add more details
- Unlimited space for displaying information about college & course
- Keyword based advertising/Branding solutions
- Flagged listings, etc
I am not too impressed with Shiksha and honestly, I think it’s just a half-hearted effort to “get something out“.
There are very niche forums like pagalguy and I am not sure how many of those users would like to hop to Shiksha – an acquisition would have made more sense?
Maybe, Shiksha is trying to do too many things from day one – right from putting relevant college info to building the alum/student community (and giving them more-than-required tools to communicate).
What’s your opinion?
Good UI with effective product features.
The site looks young and fresh with good colors. The site is easy to use and information is easily available. I am sure they will slowly optimize with right content.
The site is busy and offer shallow but ajaxified browsing of colleges, courses, coaching centers etc. But if these are being paid account at the backoffice then info is not comprehensive. As you mentioned Pagalguy or CBSE Guess – it works but cannot compete as they just use open source forum product to drive their engine. No invention and no personalization. New generation education portals like HelloChampion.com or Shiksha.com has future…. Shiksha also looks to repeat study places even though they invested in them.
The better site in this space if Freshersworld.com
Hi:
I would like to post about our institute in this website for free.
Can you guide me how to do it.
Thanks & Regards,
Priya R
HRD
Klintelligen Healthcare India Pvt ltd
Coimbatore – 641045
This is a good initiative from Shiksha.
Also, check out http://www.twenty19.com – has info on training courses and internships.