Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 7 min readEvery year, parents of 3 year olds are made to go through the tedious process of applying to various schools for getting their children admitted into a school to build a bright future. Lakhs of parents vie for a seat in a good school for their children to ensure that a year doesn’t go wasted. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readThe Indian education market is estimated to be worth Rupees 5.9 trillion in 2014-15. With nearly half the population of India below the age of 25 and increasing penetration of Internet & mobile devices nowadays, the online education market in India is bound to grow by leaps and bounds.Infrastructure and regulation issues might be slowing ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readThe K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.4 million schools with over 250 million students enrolled, according to a report by EY-FICCI on the education sector in India. India has the highest number of schools and the highest number of students enrolled in the K-12 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 8 min readThe EdTech sector in India is on a high. The e-learning sector in India is currently pegged at US $ 2-3 billion, and is expected to touch US$ 40 billion by 2017, as per IBEF data. In fact, it’s fast becoming a popular means of learning for toddlers too. Apps, tablets and interactive video websites ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readIndia’s demographic dividend will be a huge deficit if we continue to have only 20 per cent of our graduates employable. The evident gap in the industry requirements and curriculum has emerged as the most common reason highlighted for this figure. There is an opinion among stakeholders that most of teaching – learning experience is ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 8 min readWith the way the ambition for entrepreneurship is growing in India, it’s no surprise that India is fast moving towards having the highest number of business schools in the world. While the likes of IIMs, MDI and XLRI remain the top fairing B-Schools, young India is trying to look beyond too. In such an eco-system, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 8 min readAccording to a KPMG-FICCI report, over 109 million incremental people will be required in India alone, across 24 key sectors by the year 2022. Yet, only 4.69 per cent of the Indian population has undergone formal skill training. These facts point towards the kind of opportunities that open up in the skill development and training, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readThe Indian education sector is seeing growth like never before. The schooling segment is anticipated to be around US$ 144 billion by 2020. In 2014, with 29.63 million students and approximately 48,116 colleges and institutions, India’s higher education segment is the largest in the world. It is expected to increase to US$ 37.8 billion by ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe Indian education sector is growing at a rapid rate. The fast emergence of EdTech and the inflow of FDI are further boosting its growth. India’s e-learning sector is pegged at US$ 2-3 billion, and is expected to touch US$ 40 billion by 2017, according to the Indian Brand Equity Foundation. The FDI inflow into ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIndia’s online education market size is set to grow to $ 40 billion by 2017. This number reflects how the EdTech sector is one to watch out for and how startups are making good use of this combination of education and technology. India has one of the largest education systems in the world with a ...