Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readCorporate social responsibility or CSR points to the fact that organisations have moral, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities in addition to their responsibilities to earn a fair return for investors and comply with the law. It denotes business practices involving initiatives that benefit society. With institutions today consuming resources from nature, it becomes their responsibility to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readLiteracy in India is imminent for its socio-economic development. The rate of literacy in India has increased to 74.04 per cent in the year 2015 from 64.83 per cent in 2001. Recent surveys have confirmed that literacy skills are linked to the socio-economic status and level of deprivation, with those from more deprived areas achieving ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 7 min readWith the increased awareness and spending capacity amongst parents, getting children enrolled in a premium preschool has become an important decision for an overall development of a child in his/her initial years. The Indian preschool market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 13.5 per cent in 2016. This growth will be driven by ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readEducation in India is one of the most sought after sectors for investment. At present, 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 many new institutes adding up each ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readFranchising is one of the most important aspects of a business. It gives the franchisor a chance to expand their business with the minimal amount of investment, and gives a franchisee the freedom to run a business model according to him/her and not start a business from Level Zero. It has been observed in the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readWith increased recognition that expert teachers are perhaps the most fundamental resource for improving student learning and brand building, there is growing interest in figuring out how to recruit and retain strong teachers. In India, the number of teachers was 63 lakhs (approx) in the year 2013. The increase in proportion of economically active population ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readWith double digit economic growth demanding a sustained supply of knowledge workers, India has emerged as one of the world’s largest consumer of education services with a target population of more than 445 million (between age group of 5-24 years), which is expected to increase to approximately 486 million by 2025, according to a report.Technology ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 9 min readA preschool is the stepping stone for a child into the world of education. It is in a preschool that a child learns to share, play and respect teachers and peers. The preschool sector has emerged as one of the most lucrative segments of the Indian Education market. It is anticipated to grow at a ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readEven if an organisation is in the business of selling jars of foot-cream and bars of skin-tone whitening soap, it needs love and skills to come together to create those corporate masterpieces called ‘growth over the previous year’ and ‘super dividends for the investor’. Love and skills aren’t just PR-coined hashtags for applause on the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readHow to choose right location for your playschool Education entrepreneurs strive to open a playschool with good infrastructure, curriculum and lots of children playing in it. For this, they meticulously plan and allocate resources for furniture & fixtures, planning curriculum and recruitment of human resources amongst others, but in this race, one may tend to ...