Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readAt the beginning of another 365 days to be spent orbiting around the sun, it’s time to look into the future and prepare for the changes that are about to happen. In terms of the education sector exclusively, such changes can be summarised in a single word: Digital. With the present government pushing its agenda ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readNumber of schools offering an international syllabus have risen significantly over the years, as students are increasingly moving away from state boards and opting for one of the 3 International boards operational in India –the International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge International Examination (CIE) and Edexcel Examination Board.As per a study conducted by the National University of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readSomeone once told me that learners can broadly be bifurcated into two categories: the AGs and the BGs.BG stands for Before Google. This generation was probably born before 1995 and typically grew up in a pre-liberalised India. Their parents advocated the benefits of frugality and any new invention was probably too expensive for them to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readIndia is the second largest market for e-learning after the United States. It is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19 per cent in the next few years. This growth is proof that like any other sector, technology has also transformed the Indian education sector for good.“I think in 2016, there has been a ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAccording to an EY-FICCI report on the education sector in India, the K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.4 million schools with 250+ million students enrolled.According to India ratings, India’s education market is $133 billion with $ 56 billion in private spend, out of which ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readHow often is India seen as the leader in providing education among top nations in the world? If one looks at the numbers, the current K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.4 million schools with 250+ million students enrolled, according to an EY-FICCI report on ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readWith the bold move of demonetisation settling in, the loss or gain that will be experienced by the Indian economy in the long run is yet to be judged. While some expect there are better chances of cleaning out the cycle of black money and corruption, others are not as much in its favour. While ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readThe number of schools offering an international syllabus has risen significantly over the years, as students are increasingly moving away from state boards and opting for one of the 3 International boards operational in India –the International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge International Examination (CIE) and Edexcel Examination Board. A study conducted by the National University of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readThe education sector enjoys a close synergy with technology with new and latest technological tools being increasingly adopted to transform how education is imparted in the classrooms and beyond the physical boundaries of the classroom as well. From recorded video tapes to the use of portable tablet with educational content, smart classrooms, AV projectors, as ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readThe current K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.4 million schools with over 250 million students enrolled, reveals an EY-FICCI report on the education sector in India. India has the highest number of schools and the highest number of students enrolled in the K-12 system ...