Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe internationalisation of higher education has grown over the past decade. The number of students, teaching staff, and researchers that cross borders is increasing and institutional activities and strategies for internationalisation have become more elaborate. Their aims and rationales include networking for mutual understanding and intercultural learning, for achieving academic excellence, and for providing assistance ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readWhether it be high performance sports at the Olympics or the development of sports locally, sports education is becoming increasingly important in the modern world. There is a growing awareness of sports education as a subject in Indian schools. In 2010, the Indian sports market had a value of about $1,489 million. Sport is going ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readSkills and knowledge are the driving force of economic growth and social development for any country. Indian demographic has a unique facet of being fraught with a majority of young populace. The education sector in India is well developed and mature. The nation's educational infrastructure offers a concrete system comprising of Primary education, Secondary education ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAs per FICCI-EY Report 2015, India, by 2020, will be the epicentre of working age population with more than 906 million workforce. By 2030, the greying developed world is expected to face a workforce shortage of approximately 56 million. As the third largest economy and the availability of young skilled workforce, the world will collaborate ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readDesign is essentially a synthesising discipline. It does not have its repository or knowledge bank, like for example in law, medicine etc. The generalist and multidisciplinary approach allows Design to draws its knowledge base from almost all other disciplines. Hence, design education is highly experiential in nature.The Indian corporate world and the ever-demanding Indian consumers ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readJawaharlal Nehru named Pune the Oxford of the East, and this title is more than well-deserved on account of the many schools, colleges and management institutes that the city boasts of. Each year, Pune attracts tens of thousands of students not only from India but all over the world.A lesser-known fact is that Pune's real ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readCollaboration between industry and academia supports improvement and innovation in the industry and helps to ensure industrial relevance in academic research. To address challenges related to competitiveness, organisations often look beyond industry partners to academic collaborators for innovation. However, successful collaboration doesn’t just happen, it must be carefully planned and nurtured. It’s, therefore, important to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read“People will always judge you, no matter how you look, how you dress, how you talk, how you treat, how you work and so on…”In order to be successful in life, it is very important to create a powerful first impression. This first impression can help people land a job, get a promotion ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 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 the third largest higher education systems in the world. However, there is still a lot of potential for further development in the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readAs with most sectors, technology has pervaded the education space, thus, challenging traditional structures and service delivery pipelines that had begun to edge on the cosy and comfortable, hence, stifling the possibility of spurring innovation without a substantial overhaul of the existing mindset. I have looked at this space in terms of a gradual progression ...