Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 21, 2018 - 1 min readSupreme Court (SC) has sought replies within 4 weeks from Centre, state governments and Union Territories on a PIL filed by a law student, Kanishka Pandey. The petitioner has asked to make sports a part of the Fundamental Rights as well as the promotion of sports education in the country. Pandey, who approached the apex ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 18, 2018 - 1 min readIn a move which will support budding artists and artists with disabilities, the Delhi government has increased the number and amount of scholarships for advancing arts practice. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, said, “To make arts policy more inclusive, the Sahitya Kala Parishad of Delhi government has introduced a number of new programmes and broadened ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 16, 2018 - 1 min readThis year marks the third fiscal year when bad loans in the education sector have shown a rising trend. The percentage of Non-Performing Assets (NPA) has risen to 9% of the outstanding by March this year. According to the Indian Banks Association (IBA) model for education loan schemes, banks provide 15 years repayment period while ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 09, 2018 - 1 min readHigher educational institutions need to “revamp their methods of teaching, give up a business-as-usual approach and create rigorous academic standards”, Naidu said. He added, “We need to build the right ecosystem for academic excellence to thrive by revamping our education system. Innovative, futuristic universities will be the drivers of this huge transformation and education will ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 04, 2018 - 1 min readJapanese publication, Kodansha has come to India with a picture book ‘Mottainai Grandma’ to promote the sense of cleanliness among the Indian school going children ‘Clean India’ mission by creating environmental awareness among students. Children between 9-12 years will be taught the values of cleanliness, use of resources and consciousness towards the environment. The inaugural ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 03, 2018 - 1 min readUK-based Vinformax, which claims to be the world’s first stereoscopic 3D digital medical education platform has launched phase 2 of its flagship product S3D Medimagic on Monday. The company which has a technology innovation and production centre in Bengaluru, enables VR-like tutoring and learning for the students. The S3D Medimagic mobile app was also launched ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 02, 2018 - 2 min readDelhi-based EdTech start-up, Eupheus Learning has announced a strategic collaboration with ETS, the world’s largest non-profit educational measurement organization, to bring the TOEFL Primary® and TOEFL Junior® tests to India. The company also has a road map to establish 200+ test centres in the country to facilitate the administration of the TOEFL Primary and TOEFL ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 30, 2018 - 1 min readIIFL Home Loan with the help of IIFL Foundation is running school facilities at some of the developers’ sites as part of their corporate social initiative to give education to the children of construction workers who do not have access to education. The non- banking financial company subsidiary of India Infoline Finance Ltd (IIFL) owns ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 25, 2018 - 1 min readMyanmar which will host the next Asean Education Ministers Meeting (ASED) in October seeks to boost its education sector by cooperating with India, China and the US among others. Vice President U Myint Swe has said that the 10th meeting of ASED and Dialogue Partners would promote cooperation with Southeast Asian nations and partner countries, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 23, 2018 - 1 min readThe Ministry of Ayush has proposed to bring in new curriculum on the lines of Gurukula model of education. Announcing the plan, secretary, Ministry of Ayush Rajesh Kotecha said the proposed curriculum on ayurveda was expected to be strong foundation for Ayush-based approach to management of health and wellness A press release quoted Kotech saying ...