Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readAmity University Online (AUO), and Devyani International Ltd (DIL), an associate company of RJ Corp have signed a MOU today for offering digitally enabled business management degrees to their employees across India. The MOU signing ceremony took place between the management group of AUO and DIL. As per the memorandum of understanding, Amity University Online ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readAccording to a joint report released by Google and KPMG, India's online education sector is expected to grow by eight times to $1.96 billion by 2021.The report states that the user base for paid online tutoring will grow by six times from 1.6 million users today to 9.6 million users by ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readTestbook.com, an online test preparation platform for competitive exams, has raised an undisclosed amount in unding from venture capital firm Matrix Partners India, it said in a statement.The startup plans to use the fresh capital to enhance its product offering. Testbook, which is operated by Mumbai-based Share Infotech Pvt Ltd, is an online test preparation ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readAquib Ajani, a tutor on ChalkStreet, an education marketplace, teaches programming on the platform and has more than 3,000 subscribers to his course. Programming is just one of the things you can learn on ChalkStreet.Rajesh Kumar, Co-founder, ChalkStreet and an IIM Kozhikode alumnus, said, "A lot of people have disparate learning needs at various points ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readKangaroo Kids Mid-market focused private equity firm Gaja Capital may invest $20 million in Kangaroo Kids Education Limited (KKEL) for an undisclosed stake, according to sources close to the deal.KKEL claims to be India’s largest pre-kindergarten and K-12 (kindergarten to Class-XII) chain of schools. The deal is pending some paper work and is likely to be ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readNew Delhi-headquartered education services company, CL Educate Ltd has raised Rs 71.68 crore ($10.95 million) through sale of shares via anchor allotment ahead of its three-day initial public offering (IPO).CL Educate, best known for its test prep brand Career Launcher, allotted nearly 1.43 million shares to nine institutional investors at Rs 502 per share, the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readTo promote film education in India, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune has signed an MoU with Canon India Pvt Ltd. FTII would start new short-term courses across several towns and states in the country.Several skill-oriented courses have been proposed in collaboration with State Governments, Universities and Educational institutions under FTII’s Skilling India ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have collaborated to establish a world-class educational and research ecosystem for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) at the campus.This National Hub has materialised under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the two organisations in November 2015. The primary aim was to foster cutting edge ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readNational Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), an autonomous body under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, has signed a MoU with Anuna Education for implementing pan-India e-Commerce training for industrial/artisan clusters and village level entrepreneurs (VLE).Anuna Education, a leading player in the skill development space, having entrepreneurship skills as one of its ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe education sector is likely to receive a rise of 10-12 percent in the upcoming Budget allocation, doubling the quantum of increase from the previous year.Two of the government officials confirmed that, a major part of the increased allocation will be for "improving education outcome in schools", in keeping with the emphasis on education, especially ...