Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Apr 09, 2018 - 2 min readEducation based publishing house S Chand & Company Ltd has decided to invest an additional amount of Rs 35 lakhs ($53,891) in ed-tech startup Smartivity Labs Pvt. Ltd, it said in a stock exchange filing. The tech enables startup, Smartivity, which deploys augmented reality and robotics for kids’ learning projects, will ...
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Opportunity India Desk Apr 06, 2018 - 2 min readBangalore-based online tutoring startup Vedantu Innovations Pvt. Ltd has raised up to $10 million (Rs 65 crore) in a fresh round of funding, two people aware of the development said. The seven-year-old company has already received $3 million from new investor Omidyar Network and $2 million from existing backer Accel Partners, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 28, 2018 - 2 min readFor the students seeking admission in global as well as domestic courses, Auxilo Finserve Pvt. Ltd., has launched unique Swift Education Loans to be sanctioned in 24 hours. India's fastest growing education ecosystem NBFC has also launched a special education loan for the children of Indian Defence Forces at zero percent ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 23, 2018 - 1 min readThe Jain Group has signed a MoU with internship and training platform provider Internshala. This MoU is likely to benefit the students of Jain University, MIME and Jain College. Internshala provides internship opportunities to 2.5 million students across the nation. They aim at providing internships and training to college students by ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 21, 2018 - 3 min readBirla Edutech Limited (BEL) has announced their foray into international curriculum delivery with the launch of Birla Open Minds International School (BOMIS). The announcement was kicked off with a panel discussion at NSCI with stalwarts from the educational sector. BOMIS adds to the few international schools in south Mumbai with a curriculum that ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 21, 2018 - 2 min readStar Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (SUD Life) partnered with Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) for a customised life insurance training program for its future employees. The program will be delivered at the Manipal Global Academy of BFSI Campus in Bengaluru. The candidates will undergo a one-year customised ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 20, 2018 - 2 min readThe international award-winning non-profit organisation, Educate Girls has taken actress Katrina Kaif as their ambassador, the company statement said. The celebrity is deeply inspired to lend her voice to one of the most pressing development issues like the one of educating girls. Through her association with Educate Girls, she attempts to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 19, 2018 - 2 min readReliance Foundation, which is the country’s largest private foundation, has planned to set up a university for cutting-edge research and innovation as well as nurturing future leaders, musicians, scientists and Olympians, said its founder-Chairperson Nita Ambani. Speaking at an event last evening, she said sports and education are the two pillars ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 19, 2018 - 1 min readSaurashtra University (SU) is mulling over starting a bridge course for its students from the next academic year, for better connectivity with the industrial world. Among the proposal, the university is also planning create some courses as per the requirement and recommendations of industries. There are many small-scale industries around Saurashtra which require good talent. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 01, 2018 - 1 min readSD Shibulal, cofounder Infosys has started EduMentum, an incubator being launched in partnership between his Advaith Foundation and Mantra4Change, a Bengaluru-based NGO. The aim of EduMentum is to incubate early stage organisations working in the space of offline education transformation. The platform will offer funding of ?7.5 lakh per annum to each selected organisation along ...