Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readWith the advent of disruptive technologies, the higher education ecosystem of the country is changing rapidly. There is major upsurge of education start-ups which are using technology as a predominant tool to augment the education services (technically called ‘Ed-Tech Startups’). A new set of start-ups are taking a fresh look at how educational outcomes such ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIndia has the largest network of schools in the world. With 1.3 million schools in the country, we have thrice the number of schools than China and 10 times more than in the United States of America. This makes India one of the largest education market in the world. However, with time, emphasis is laid ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 7 min readIndia holds an important place in the global education industry. The country has more than 1.4 million schools with over 227 million students enrolled and more than 36,000 higher education institutes. India has one of the largest higher education systems in the world.With both parents working these days, visiting the school or institute to pay ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 10 min readIndia’s education sector offers a great opportunity with approximately 29 per cent of India’s population being between the age group of 0-14 years. The schooling segment in India is anticipated to be around $144 billion by 2020 from an estimated $95.8 billion in 2015. In 2014, with 29.63 million students and approximately 48,116 colleges and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIndian gems and jewellery industry is considered to be the global hub, it is well established and recognised worldwide for its craftsmanship and variety. The industry is highly labour intensive and export oriented; it involves not just workmanship but a lot of patience and dedication to the art of jewellery making. This sector has grown ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readInformation technology has reformed each sector it has grasped and it is currently in the promising phases of altering academia. In the coming decades education will be more immersive and hopefully more constructive to the people than it is today. Digitisation in the education industry has totally changed the learning and also the teaching process ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readMumbai’s Realty major Marathon Group has introduced Big Picture Learning System, which originated in the US, in India with the launch of its first educational institute Next School in the city. The school aims to personalise a child’s education, while giving them experience in the real world through mentors and internships. Briefing about the kind ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readAccording to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), the number of internationally mobile students globally has increased to 4 million in 2012 with a 135 per cent increment from 1.7 million. China has been the largest contributor of the world’s mobile students since 1995. India became the second largest contributor since 2005.In 2012, over 189 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readThe Indian education industry is on a brisk growth track. The industry has witnessed significant developments and investments in the past five years, owing to which its market size reached $50 billion in 2012. Experts believe that the sector will surge to $200 billion by 2017, with a compound annual growth rate of 25.99 per ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readData from the Census 2011 and 68th round of the National Sample Survey revealed than an estimated 10.4 crore fresh workers would enter the labour market and require skill training by 2022, and 29.8 crore of the existing workforce will require additional skill training over the same time period.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Skill India ...