Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readHaving experienced the convenience of shopping online to booking travel tickets or job related searches, Indian consumers are now tapping more of education related websites online.According to the recent study by Sulekha, an online search provider of local service needs and fulfillment, for the month of January 2017, the professional sports coaching category has seen ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readVirtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and gamification are definitely the future as they are being increasingly used in most fields like education, medicine, entertainment, hospitality, tourism, or architecture. Storytelling through VR and AR has changed the way visual content is consumed. These technologies spike a sense of presence and awareness in audiences, besides engaging ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readUnder the constitutional framework, it’s mandated to provide education to all, right from the beginning. Maharashtra has one of the largest numbers of aided schools and these aided schools have started behaving exactly like government schools and colleges. In government schools there is not as much of quality and this has led to the rise ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readDid you know, in the past two years, our economy has experienced the emergence and development of close to 900 start ups? All of which are entirely focused on the education sector. The Indian Education Sector values up to $100 billion and has been experiencing quite a lot action in terms of Edtech startups. With ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readGone are those days when classroom training was restricted to textbook learning, teachers using the blackboard to explain things and students writing notes. Technology is not all about playing games online or watching animated videos etc. The benefits of technology depend on the way children, parents and teachers choose to use it to enhance learning. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read“Does it make sense for me to send my child abroad for education and is the investment worth it?” This is an often-asked question from hundreds of parents in India over the last few years, and is an important one as the answer to this question has a strong implication to their child’s future. I ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIn the Indian Education sector, while there is a special attention being paid to the quality of inputs including infrastructure, staffing and finances, little focus is paid towards improving learning outcomes with the enactment of Right to Education Act (2009), the Budget Private Schools (BPS) are contradicting the fact and are doing considerably well across ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readNurturing early childhood development and blending educational concepts, US based Kinderdance is growing leaps and bounds in India through franchising. This nationally acclaimed movement program is engaging multiple schools that will benefit them to lower their operational costs and provide holistic development for children. While creating different models, from Franchising to Company Managed Affiliates, the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIn the mid 90's, if you didn't get into an MBA college after graduation, then your dreams of doing an MBA would turn into a nightmare. Of course, you had the option of doing Management Development Program (MDP) in one of these schools to get the basic education in management. This trend gradually changed, when ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readAs the fastest-growing economy in the world, India has grand ambitions. However, the consistent supply of educated workers required to sustain the growth of the country’s largely knowledge-based economy may not be possible if its education system does not improve.By 2020, India is expected to have a literacy rate of 80%. This would be close ...