Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 07, 2019 - 1 min readIn order to attract students from South East Asian countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Sri Lanka, the International Buddhist Confederation is planning to set up a Buddhist university in Tripura. Dhammapiya, Secretary General of International Buddhist Confederation, said, "I along with few other members of the Buddhist community met Chief Minister Biplab ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 07, 2019 - 2 min readAhmed Al Ameri, Chairman, Sharjah Book Authority, has invited Indian publishers to take advantage of the low logistical costs offered by Sharjah publishing city. Sharjah, he said, was the first free zone in the world for publishing and is a gateway to reach out to third countries. Addressing the 'CEO Speak 2019 - Over Chairman’s ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 07, 2019 - 1 min readIndira Gandhi National Open University's (IGNOU) School of Health Sciences (SOHS) is introducing four new skill-based Health Programmes. The programmes have been launched to create trained healthcare personnel for improving healthcare delivery across India. T.K. Jena of SOHS, IGNOU, said, "The programmes will be implemented through a nation-wide support services framework. A supervision and monitoring ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 03, 2019 - 1 min readThe Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ (IIT-M) Center for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) is conducting a winter course on machine intelligence and brain research from January 2-9. The course is targeting at educating students in the interdisciplinary area by combining lectures from neuroscientists as well as computational researchers working across disciplines. It is also open for ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 02, 2019 - 1 min readA.M. Naik, Chairman of engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro’s (L&T’s) group, has been appointed as Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). With Naik’s experience and leadership, the Skills Mission will help achieve scale and bring in a larger industry connect. Dharmendra Pradhan, Skills Minister, said, "His standing in the community of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 29, 2018 - 1 min readThe University Grants Commission (UGC) has pushed ahead with the strategy of offering autonomous status to India's better-performing colleges. The move is an attempt to boost the quality of teaching and learning in the country’s higher education institutions. The regulator of the higher education sector has given the autonomous status to 37 colleges so far. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 29, 2018 - 1 min readWest Bengal government will start English medium teaching at primary and secondary levels in around 65 state-run schools from the next academic session. Out of these 65 schools, 44 are in the primary section while 21 are in the secondary section. Partha Chatterjee, Education Minister of West Bengal, said, "Now the state-run government schools will ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 28, 2018 - 1 min readGanjam district in Odisha will soon have an online teaching system with the help of smartphones for Odia medium schools. In the first phase, this system will be rolled out on an experimental basis for the primary students of classes 5 and 6. Vijay Amruta Kulange, District Collector of Ganjam, said, "The district administration has started preparation ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 27, 2018 - 1 min readThe West Bengal Education Department has decided to introduce lessons in the school curriculum on Obesity-prevention for raising awareness on the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle among the students. The course will start at the primary education level for which disbursal of funds has already begun. Apart from imparting theoretical knowledge, the curriculum would ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 27, 2018 - 1 min readPresident Ram Nath Kovind has granted approval to Himachal Pradesh Early Childhood Care and Education Centers (Registration and Regulation) Bill 2017. The bill targets to ensure quality education to children by offering all basic facilities. The Himachal Pradesh legislation would bring early childhood care and education centres in the state under government monitoring. These childcare centres are ...