Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 02, 2018 - 2 min readDrawn to the prospect of cultural and professional immersion in India’s most cosmopolitan city, 31 undergraduate Business School students from University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney will travel to Mumbai over their winter break. The students will intern as consulting teams in a diverse range of companies including multinationals like Tata Consultancy Services and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 29, 2018 - 2 min readThe Centre has decided to repeal the UGC Act, 1951 to replace the apex higher education regulator body University Grants Commission (UGC) with Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. "In a landmark decision, a draft Act for repeal of #UGC & setting up #HECI ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 26, 2018 - 2 min readSkills development firm NIIT today announced its Talent Pipeline as a Service (TPaaS) offering, under which it will train one lakh people over the next three years in IT and banking and financial services sectors. TPaaS is being launched to ensure reliable availability of specifically skilled talent to global organisations to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 21, 2018 - 1 min readEducation services provider, Chrysalis which is operated by EZ Vidya Pvt. Ltd, has raised an undisclosed amount in fresh capital from two institutional investors. The company said in a statement that Menterra Venture Advisors, a social impact-focused venture capital fund, and The Artha Initiative, an impact investment initiative associated with Switzerland-based Rianta Capital, had participated ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 08, 2018 - 2 min readAimed at meeting the common objective of taking digital training to schools and equipping teachers with the requisite knowledge of implementing technology in classrooms, Global tech firm Dell announced a collaboration with a technology-based learning solutions provider, Tata ClassEdge. This collaboration expands the reach of Dell Aarambh through Tata ClassEdge network on educational institutions. Dell's ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 07, 2018 - 1 min readIIM Ahmedabad’s incubator-cum-investor, Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), has invested an undisclosed amount of seed capital in Noida-based placement solutions provider Reculta. The startup will use the funds for expanding its sales team and product development, besides funding its international expansion plans, Utsav Bhattacharjee, co-founder of Reculta said.
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 04, 2018 - 1 min readThe United Nations has released its first-ever guidelines on fighting anti-Semitism in education. UNESCO, the UN's cultural body, launched the publication on Monday in Paris in collaboration with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the OSCE. The guide, aimed to be used by young people, the teaching ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 01, 2018 - 2 min readThe Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru has made it to the top 100 universities in the Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings 2018, becoming the only Indian institution to make it to the prestigious list this year. The IISc has been ranked in the 91-100 band of the annual ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 29, 2018 - 1 min readGlobal e-commerce major Amazon has announced financial assistance to research students and also a few faculty at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Hyderabad) “About 100 students are supported fully or partially under the programme. The firm gives us the flexibility on how to utilise the proceeds,” PJ Narayanan, Director of ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 28, 2018 - 2 min readBengaluru-based iNurture Ed-tech startup iNurture Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd has acquired student engagement and employability platform KRACKiN Technologies Pvt. Ltd. iNurture had recently raised Rs 28 crore (Rs 4.4 million) in a Series C round from Ventureast, Bertelsmann India Investments and Ascent Capital. iNurture founder Ashwin Ajila said in ...