Education & Training
-
Opportunity India Desk Apr 04, 2019 - 1 min readShahani Academic & Global Empowerment Foundation (SAGE), a non-profit trust focused on skills training, has received a Rs 76 lakh grant from JP Morgan to help train 200 economically disadvantaged graduates in banking jobs. The Shahani Group will adopt innovative teaching methods to provide BFSI-specific training to these underprivileged youth. The Group is also preparing ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 26, 2019 - 1 min readBeauty Influencer Shagun Gupta has been appointed as the Indian partner for Nouveau Contour, the masters in Micropigmentation. Netherlands-based Nouveau Contour is the global leaders in Permanent makeup, also known as micropigmentation, which is one of the fastest growing specialties in the beauty industry. A practicing cosmetologist and ‘All-around micro pigmentation’ specialist, Shagun Gupta has ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 25, 2019 - 1 min readHockey India, the sports’ governing body in India, has launched its Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway. This has been introduced in an endeavour to train coaches and enable them to meet the requirements of high international standards of hockey. The program is aimed at offering certification to those candidates who are already coaches or wish ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 22, 2019 - 2 min readRitesh Rawal foundation's initiative Learning by doing movement, which encourages students to adopt concept-based learning, has been successfully implemented in the Jhajjar district of Haryana, thus marking the beginning of a nationwide campaign to touch-base the rural masses with new learning & teaching methods. The Learning by doing movement also expanded its outreach to villages like Badra, ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 19, 2019 - 1 min readTrimble will be setting up a technology lab at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras for serving architecture, engineering and construction students. With this lab, the IIT Madras leadership will expand in training and research in 3D building design, digital fabrication and sustainable built environment. A press release said, "The Trimble Technology Lab will benefit students enrolled in the Institute's department of ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 06, 2019 - 2 min readUnderlining its commitment towards community development and diversity, carmaker MG (Morris Garages) Motor India has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with IIMPACT, an NGO engaged in providing quality education to the girl child through its learning centres in remote villages across the country. Under the programme, MG Motor India will adopt and support 30 ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 02, 2019 - 1 min readKerala University is planning to launch various programmes aimed at promoting research activities at the varsity. In a bid to accomplish this, the university has decided to start post-doctoral fellowship programmes for research students to engage in the science department of the university. The programme is scheduled to start from the next session of 2019-20. The university ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Mar 02, 2019 - 1 min readThe alumnus and researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have created 'DotBook', India's first Braille laptop for visually-impaired. DotBook has an interface in form of dots or Braile instead of a visual one. The laptop has been launched with two versions, one with 20 cell version and another 40 cell version, each ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Feb 27, 2019 - 1 min readThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta has introduced an advanced programme in FinTech (financial technology) and Financial Blockchain for finance professionals. Starting in May 2019, the programme will be provided in association with TalentSprint. This programme will be teaching about FinTech and its impact on the banking and financial ecosystem. In addition, it will teach ...
-
Opportunity India Desk Feb 26, 2019 - 1 min readWipro and King's College London have jointly launched the enrolment process for the first Master of Arts (MA) programme in STEM Education in the UK. The degree programme would commence in September 2019. It is designed to be a year-long programme for full-time students, while a two-year course for part-time students. The MA in STEM ...