Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 11, 2018 - 1 min readTamil Nadu is launching an Artificial Intelligence-enabled attendance system through face reading on a pilot basis at a government high school for girls. It will replace attendance registers in state's schools. This new system will expand to the rest of the state soon. KA Sengottaiyan, the Minister for School Education in Tamil Nadu, said this ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 10, 2018 - 1 min readThaawarchand Gehlot, the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, has inaugurated the website of a first-of-its-kind media school, Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar School Of Media Empowerment (ASME), for training Dalit and tribal youth in journalism. ASME, supported by the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), will be having its branches in Pune, Assam, Uttarakhand and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 05, 2018 - 1 min readANAROCK Property Consultants has announced that sales & marketing veteran Shajai Jacob, previously Executive Director & Head - Marketing (West Asia) at international property consultancy JLL India, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer - GCC (Middle East). He will be based out of ANAROCK's Dubai office and will have complete oversight of the Firm's ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 04, 2018 - 1 min readSatya Pal Malik, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has announced a scholarship scheme for the state's specially-abled students. The financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh each would be awarded annually to a meritorious specially abled student under the 'J&K Government Scholarship Scheme for Differently Abled Students'. With this scheme, the government wants to develop suitable infrastructure ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 30, 2018 - 2 min readVowelor Books and Media, a progressive technology start-up, has launched Vowelor app, India's first platform for book lovers. This platform is the result of keen observation of issues faced by the readers and writers in the current literature landscape, especially in India. With the concept of "Why Read Alone", Vowelor aims to give readers and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 26, 2018 - 1 min readThe All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will soon allow books during engineering examinations. From 2019 onwards, the engineering students of AICTE-approved colleges might get an opportunity to appear for open book exam. AICTE has recently approved examination reforms policy including open book exam, wherein students will be allowed to refer to books in examination ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 26, 2018 - 1 min readThe entrepreneurship development center LIVE (Laboratory for Innovation, Venturing and Entrepreneurship) of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode is organising a Women Entrepreneurship Summit called UNARUKA 2.0. The summit is organized by the institute in collaboration with CMA (Calicut Management Association). It is aimed at inspiring women in the region to take up entrepreneurship. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 23, 2018 - 1 min readLakme Academy, powered by Aptech, has introduced Glamour Rush 2018. It is an exclusive platform by Lakme Academy that brings an array of activities for the beauty and wellness industry aspirants. Glamour Quotient is one of the first activities of Glamour Rush 2018. It is an online assessment exam, testing the skills and aptitude of students in different areas ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 22, 2018 - 1 min readMinistry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has launched an innovation cell at the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). This cell has been introduced with an aim to brainstorm new ideas about promoting innovation in all higher education institutions (HEIs) across India. Prakash Javadekar, HRD Minister of India, said, "This will be a significant ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 21, 2018 - 1 min readComputational Thinking is a problem-solving process that includes a number of characteristics and dispositions. Maple Bear South Asia, the winner of the IDA Education Award 2018 for Most Innovative Pedagogy in Early Learning, has become the first to introduce“Computational Thinking” at the pre-school level across its schools in the region. As part of the development, ...