Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readImagine understanding a complex math problem in a minute with a graphical illustration of all the steps, or visualising how our heart functions. Learning has never been so much fun and engaging as it is now with all the digital apps, games and online tutorials at our disposal. Whether for school goers or working professional, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readEducation is the backbone of our nation. It is an instrument to national human resource development. Listed among the fastest growing economies in the world, India stands way behind in the line, when it comes to education. Low quality education is crippling India’s growth to cope with the demands of the 21st century economy.It is ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."– Nelson Mandela.Government schools in India have always been neglected or under estimated. There are some states, who take their schools and education provided by those schools seriously and rest all have already made their way to the news channels, being mocked at ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readEducation is the driving force of any society and calls for continuous evolution to be relevant to our learning needs. The Indian education system is transforming to meet the larger demands of our growing nation. The Government’s initiative to digitalise the education system reflects a highly positive approach of embracing digital technology to revolutionise how ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readEducation is an important aspect in the life of every individual that provides a framework to the students who are confused with the myriad of career options offered to them. Every individual wants to receive the best of education and make a career out of it. But one cannot ignore the fact that, the more ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readUndoubtedly, there has been a lot of progress in the field of education, but one cannot say the same for Vocational Education, which is an essential pillar for developing India. As per a recent study by ASSOCHAM, there will be a deficit of 40 million working professionals by 2020. In addition, it has also ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readBusiness ideas for women education in IndiaSince India’s Independence, we have come a long way and the change is visible in the field of technology, lifestyle, development, and adapting change in almost every sphere of life.But there is still a long road lie ahead of the country to jump from the list of developing countries ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe Indian education market is expected to almost double to $180 billion by 2020, buoyed by the rapid expansion of the digital learning market and the world’s largest population in the age bracket of six to 17 years even as the sector continues to be plagued by poor infrastructure and a shortage of trained teachers.The ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readFacts and FiguresWhile the Indian government has been laying great emphasis on primary education, according to 1991 census of India, at least 35 million children between the ages of six to 14 are not attending school. To add to this, a little over one-third of all children who enroll in Class one barely ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readEven after the effective and transparent Right to Education (RTE) Act, as many as 15,000 children from economically weaker section (EWS) of the society and other disadvantaged categories were again shown the close door. This was specifically for children seeking admission to Class 1 in Ahmedabad recently. The policy of admission to children living in ...