Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 07, 2018 - 1 min readIIHMR University has appointed Professor Pankaj Gupta as its new President. Prof. Gupta said, “I am extremely happy to be a part of this esteemed institution. I hope to play the role of an enabler to this 35-year-old institution and am looking forward to working with the faculty and staff to take the university to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 06, 2018 - 1 min readPM Narendra Modi-led NDA government has inaugurated India’s first railway university, National Rail and Transport University (NRTU), in Gujarat’s Vadodara. The varsity will be teaching two graduate-level courses, namely B.Sc in Transportation Technology and BBA in Transportation Management. The university plans to add five more post-graduate-level courses from next year. These courses are (Master of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 06, 2018 - 1 min readThe government has approved the proposal for seven new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to have permanent campuses by June 2021. The institutes, presently functioning from transit campuses, were established between 2015 and 2017. The campuses will be in Amritsar, Bodh Gaya, Nagpur, Sambalpur, Sirmaur, Vishakhapatnam and Jammu. The government said, "The Union Cabinet chaired ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 04, 2018 - 1 min readDigital tutoring start-up Byju’s is in talks to raise $200-300 million from at least two new investors, private equity firm General Atlantic and Singapore government-owned Temasek Holdings. The deal, expected to close within the next few weeks, will value Bengaluru-based Byju’s, run by Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd., at $2.2-2.4 billion. Byju, in July 2017, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 04, 2018 - 1 min readThe Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) has announced a collaboration with Stanford University for its premier executive education programme, EPGP. Under this collaboration, five webinars, provided over the course of one year, will be delivered to the participants by the Stanford faculty via the live virtual platform of TSW or The Second Wind. Stanford ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 03, 2018 - 1 min readOdisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated the Fakir Mohan Medical College and Hospital at Balasore, Odisha. CM Patnaik has said that a long-cherished dream of Balasore and nearby areas has come true with the opening of the medical college. Patnaik inaugurated the medical college after unveiling the statue of legendary Odia poet and novelist Fakir ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 30, 2018 - 1 min readNational Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to convert its 2,697 test practice centres into teaching centres from next year. NTA is set up by the government to conduct exams for entrance to higher educational institutions. HRD Ministry’s official, said, “The plan is to take these centres beyond just practice tests and turn them into teaching centres. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 29, 2018 - 2 min readWNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Management services, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the ISME School of Management and Entrepreneurship, offering a Postgraduate Program in Data Science and Entrepreneurship (PGDSE). Coupled with the MITx MicroMasters program in Statistics & Data Science, entailing four online courses at ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 28, 2018 - 1 min readCentral Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to provide digital mark sheets, migration certificates and pass certificates to students from CBSE-affiliated schools in Kerala. The central board’s decision comes in the wake of floods that have hit Kerala. CBSE has over 1,300 schools in Kerala affiliated to it. The board, in technical collaboration with the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 22, 2018 - 1 min readPunjab cabinet has approved the constitution of Punjab State Higher Education Council. It will now be tabled in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. The move is aimed at ensuring quality higher education in Punjab's institutions by facilitating optimum sharing of resources between universities and colleges. It would fulfil one of the pre-requisites of the next phase ...