Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 06, 2019 - 1 min readA team of students of the Indian Institutes of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has developed an AI-powered drone to help people affected by natural disasters. This AI-powered drone provides precise information about the people's whereabouts when a disaster strikes emerged. The students created this project for a competition held by Microsoft's Academia Accelerator, theme being, "Codefundo++ National ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 05, 2019 - 1 min readIn a robust move to further strengthen its academic excellence, UPES, a specialization-focused, multi- disciplinary University, has appointed Dr. Neeraj Mahindroo as the Dean of its newly launched School of Health Sciences. With this appointment, UPES enforces its commitment of imparting world class education, under the leadership of talented and discerning faculty, who are veterans ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 04, 2019 - 1 min readThe Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first-ever university in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, named as the University of Ladakh. The establishment of the first university in the Ladakh region has been approved by the Jammu and Kashmir administration on December 15. PM Modi said, "Ladakh now has first cluster university comprising ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 01, 2019 - 1 min readIgnis Careers, a Hyderabad-based social enterprise providing capacity-building programs for teachers in government and affordable private schools (APS), has developed a digital platform for imparting its Life Skills training program targeting first generation learners from low-income communities. This comes on the back of the funding of $150,000 it received from Atlanta-headquartered education sector focused impact ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 01, 2019 - 1 min readDr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has been appointed as the Regional Director for the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia, for a second five-year term. The WHO Executive Board unanimously endorsed Dr Khetrapal Singh, who was earlier also unanimously nominated by 11 Member countries of the Region for another five years. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 30, 2019 - 1 min readThe South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) will be building more model schools with facilities such as smart classes, nursery, computer labs, science labs and CCTV cameras, among others. Initially, 40 such schools have been inaugurated at Malviya Nagar. Nandini Sharma, Education Committee Chairperson of SDMC, said, "The facilities at the Malviya Nagar school include smart ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 29, 2019 - 1 min readServo Group, owners of Ramada Hotel Dehradun, has opened a hotel school in the city, foraying into hotel education. The Servo Hospitality School began its academic operations with the first batch of a two-year Diploma program in Hotel Management. Besides the two-year Diploma program in Hotel Management, the institute will provide two-year Culinary program and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 28, 2019 - 2 min readFICCI Alliance for Re-Imagining School Education (FICCI ARISE) has mounted an 87-member high-powered delegation of top educationists and policy makers to London, the UK, from January 22 to 26, 2019, to attend two of the leading and most sought-after global platforms, named BETT and Learnit.world. This visit has provided the delegates from India tremendous exposure ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 24, 2019 - 2 min readA Poster exhibition has been organised as part of the “Reading Caravan” in collaboration with Kodansha Ltd., supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from January 14-28 at the Japan Foundation, New Delhi. The exhibition displayed handmade posters which were drawn by school children from Delhi and Haryana based on their understanding and imagination of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 21, 2019 - 1 min readCoursera, the US-based online education company, has partnered with 5 top-ranked universities for launching 100 new health courses in order to address the acute shortage of skilled workers in the healthcare industry. The portfolio includes 100 new courses, 30 new specializations and two public health-focused master's degrees designed to offer learners with the skills they ...