Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 13, 2017 - 5 min readIt will not be too early to say that the right brain education concept, which is much developed in the eastern part of the globe and getting popular in the western world, has gradually started making its footprint in the country. The awareness of the concept has been growing fast wherein around three to five ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 11, 2017 - 3 min readThe education system in India does not equip students enough to deal in the real world. The bookish knowledge stay limited to books and practical knowledge is what the companies look in for. Graduates from beyond the top 30-50 colleges of India just do not have the basic skills that one would expect from ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 08, 2017 - 4 min readEducation industry can be safely termed as an evergreen industry with its popularity in a constant growth spurt. This can be contributed to the fact that proper education is considered to be a passport to success. In an academically inclined nation such as India, educational franchising finds greater ground due to the escalated value of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 02, 2017 - 4 min readAugmenting of Artificial Intelligence is already affecting our lives in many ways. But it is going to change the way children are educated in India. Definitely, it is going to change the way we have learned our lessons in the classroom. Keeping up at ‘their’ pace Traditionally, schools have always functioned using an approach ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 02, 2017 - 3 min readTechnology has expanded its space to accommodate all the other sectors under its wings. Different sectors have seen how technology and business are dominating them, which is why instead of competing with each other, they have chosen a safe space, where they can work together and push each other’s motivation forward. Dependra Pathak, IPS, Special ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 29, 2017 - 4 min readA recent study (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, May 2014) suggests that almost two lakh Indian students are currently studying abroad; Australia and the US being the preferred destinations. Surprisingly, Europe is not such a favoured destination any more. This is in sharp contrast to the meagre 28,000 foreign students studying in India. It is thus, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 24, 2017 - 3 min readThere is hardly any country that is not attempting to improve its Education system. Education of teachers not only facilitates improvement of school education by preparing competent, committed and professionally well qualified teachers who can meet the demand of the system, but also functions as a bridge between schooling and higher education. India has one ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 23, 2017 - 4 min readIndia has a population of 572 million people between the ages of 0-24 years (Census of India, 2015). This has led to significant government and private spending in education sector. The current K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.5 million schools that have more than ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 22, 2017 - 3 min readInternet is connecting us with everything and everywhere; so not just a laptop or a smartphone, but your refrigerator and other equipment can be made into a smart object of use. According to a 2016 survey by Extreme Networks, today schools are making extensive use of this technological smartness or IoT technology (in other words) to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 20, 2017 - 3 min readChildren these days are super smart and are well aware of the power of internet. The sudden boom of internet connectivity has paved ways for the tutors in more ways than one. Education system in India is undergoing a rapid expansion. There can never be a better period than this for the Edupreneurs to jump ...