Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk May 23, 2018 - 3 min readEdyoo, an e-commerce platform which sells products primarily used by schoolgoing children, has raised $1 million (Rs 6.8 crore) in pre-Series A funding from RS Shanbag, chairman and managing director of the diversified Valuepoint Group. Bengaluru-based Edyoo said in a statement that it will use the fresh capital for product development, ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 22, 2018 - 2 min readThe Goldman Sachs Foundation has launched an online education program in partnership with Coursera furthering its 10,000 Women initiative to provide female entrepreneurs with a world-class business education and a global peer-to-peer network. Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women, is a global initiative that fosters economic growth by providing women business owners around ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 15, 2018 - 1 min readDelhi High Court has issued a notice to Centre and Delhi government in regard to Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking free education to students belonging to Disadvantaged Group (DG) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). The PIL was filed seeking the amendment in Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009 to provide free ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 08, 2018 - 1 min readOver 60 Chinese universities will participate in the two-day "Chinese Higher Education Expo" that starts here on Thursday, a Chinese envoy said on Monday. The Consulate General of China in Kolkata in cooperation with the School of Chinese Language in the city will hold the expo at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre. ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 05, 2018 - 1 min readHuman Resource Development Ministry has launched digital open learning platform for bettering the teaching and learning environment in the country. Using the Massive Open Online Courses platform SWAYAM, the central government intends to update the teaching technique of 1.5 million higher education faculty with a focus on new and emerging trends. ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 04, 2018 - 1 min readCambridge Montessori Preschool has been awarded the 'Preschool Emerging Franchisor of the Year' at the 2017 edition of 'BW Top Education Brands in India' conference and awards that were held in New Delhi. 2017 Established pre-school franchise has 32 schools under its brand with a presence in 18 cities in 10 ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 02, 2018 - 2 min readUS-based $2.5 billion corporation Ebix, which is listed on NASDAQ, has announced the acquisition of majority stake in SmartClass Educational, a leader in the digital education market for K-12 education. Having already deployed $300 million to acquire several payments, forex, remittance and travel companies, Ebix is now close to its 11th ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 02, 2018 - 1 min readFreeCharge’s former CEO Govind Rajan has joined edtech startup Cuemath as its chief operating officer, sources said. Rajan will primarily be responsible around strategy while also taking care of marketing, product, technology as well as expansion. Cuemath is a home-based after-school, multi-format math learning programme that brings together technology ...
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Opportunity India Desk Apr 30, 2018 - 0 min readWipro has added three more universities in the United States to the Wipro Science Education Fellowship (SEF) Program list. The multi-year program, which aims to nurture excellence in science education in public school systems through teacher training, will be offered at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, University of South Florida, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Apr 25, 2018 - 2 min readTata Sons subsidiary, Tata Industries Ltd, has announced the selling out of its e-learning solutions unit to listed publishing services company MPS Ltd. Tata Industries which invests in new and hi-tech businesses said in a statement the two companies have entered into definitive agreements over the acquisition of Tata Interactive Systems ...