Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readIn the modern era, digital marketing skills are in serious demand and the digital skills gap is set to widen. With the booming job market brands are putting more of a focus on digital marketing than ever before. Bigger budgets, increased pay and more career choices are just some of the benefits digital marketing professionals ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 7 min readWith boom in the online shopping, retail e-commerce sales in India have grown tremendously, from $2.3 billion in 2012 to an estimated $17.5 billion, representing an almost eight-fold growth. In 2015, the retail e-commerce sales as a percent of total retail sales in India accounted for 0.9 per cent of all retail sales in India, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 7 min readSkills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development for any country. Countries with higher and better levels of skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of the world of work. As India moves progressively towards becoming a ‘knowledge economy’ it becomes increasingly important that the country should focus ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 8 min readBuilding a product because you can’t find it somewhere else may be the biggest cliché, but sometimes it’s the appropriate approach to create a new market space. Mudit, one of the founders of Qriyo was once looking for Yoga courses to take. However, he didn’t want what most of the regular yoga instructors offer or ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readWith 700 universities and more than 35,000 affiliated colleges enrolling more than 20 million students, Indian higher education is a large and complex system. India has one of the largest higher education systems in the world. However, skill/competency based education is a sector which is not given the attention it deserves.Skills based education is marred ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIndia has become the second largest market for e-learning after the US. The e-learning sector is currently pegged at $ 2-3 billion, and is expected to touch $ 40 billion by 2017. The distance education market in India is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of around 34 per cent during ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readVocational Education and Skill Training in India is still at a nascent stage. However, the demand for skilled manpower is huge, and to bridge this gap, it is the need of the hour to re-engineer the skill ecosystem here. At the 9th Global Skills Summit by FICCI, industry leaders came together with policy ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIn today’s stressful world of competition and fast moving innovative technology driven products, every organisation wants to keep its employees updated and comfortable with the current trends, technologies and tools so that their employees can handle any project without any repulsion. Gone are the days when employees were given the same kind of assignments over ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 9 min readAccording to a new research report, the preschool market is set to thrive in India, with market revenue anticipated to grow at a CAGR of around 13.5 per cent during 2017. This growth will be driven by numerous factors including rise in disposable income, working mothers, nuclear families, and escalating demand for high quality preschool ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readWith the current pace of education spending and factors like shortage of quality teachers, India will take a whopping 126 years to reach standards of education at par with developed nations, according to a report by ASSOCHAM.India spends a mere 3.83 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education which is insufficient to ...