Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 19, 2019 - 1 min readIn a bid to prepare students for employability in the Indian apparel industry, School of Vocational Education and Training, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), has launched a certificate programme in Fashion Design. The course admits candidates who have qualified Class 12. It is designed for a minimum of 6 months and maximum 2 years, and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 18, 2019 - 1 min readThe Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will be offering courses in public policy making at graduate, post graduate and research level. These courses will be started at its newly-established school for public policy. The institution will be working in the field of policy making for the first time. Currently, the school is hiring its ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 16, 2019 - 1 min readThe Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is planning to set up two Centres for Excellence (CEC) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bengaluru. These centres will be established to train young researchers in developing software and algorithms needed for monitoring specific weather events. M Rajeevan, Secretary, MoES, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 15, 2019 - 1 min readDelhi School of Journalism (DSJ) may soon launch short-term courses for working journalists from the upcoming academic session. The introduction of these courses was originally provisioned in the ordinance under which the school was established. Manasvini Yogi, Officer-on-Special-Duty for DSJ, said, "Since we are a new college and have just started our second batch, things ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 14, 2019 - 2 min readMore than 150 computer science students from all over India participated in the finals of the 9th edition of the national hacking competition called the "Amrita India Capture the Flag Contest" (Amrita InCTF) organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Team Invaders from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (Andhra Pradesh) grabbed the first position in ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 14, 2019 - 1 min readFavre-Leuba has appointed Vijesh Rajan as Business Head and the new spokesperson for the brand. After the successful tenure of Thomas Morf, the CEO and spokesperson of the brand under whose leadership the brand was relaunched with a modern dynamic outlook yet retaining its rich legacy. Rajan has come on-board with a vision to position ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 10, 2019 - 1 min readPython language will be introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the Class 12 Computer Science examinations from the academic year 2019. In its recent notification, the central board has stated that the questions on Python have been kept optional, keeping in view that few schools have the chapter on this language in ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 09, 2019 - 1 min readIndira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched the 'mediated phone-in radio counselling', which will help prisoners of the Nagpur Central Jail in Maharashtra, who have taken up academic courses, to get their queries answered by teachers. This new programme will help prisoners in their academic studies without compromising the jail's security. P Sivaswaroop, IGNOU's ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 09, 2019 - 1 min readSt Xavier's College in Kolkata will establish a finance laboratory over the next six months to help students undertake research in economics and accounting. This laboratory, the first-of-its-kind in India, will have all major databases in finance and accounting. Rev Father (Dr) Dominic Savio, Principal of St Xavier's College, said, "The state-of-the-art lab will preempt ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 07, 2019 - 1 min readPrakash Javadekar, Union Human Resource Development Minister, has increased 5,000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV) across India for the Academic Year 2019-20. Currently, the numbers of seats in JNVs, residential schools for rural children, are 46600. With the addition of 5000 seats, there will be the availability of 51000 seats from 2019. Javadekar said, ...