An Overview of the Education Market in India Posted on Sunday, Sep 6th 2009 By Guest Author Shipra Agarwal Education has long been receiving the major wallet share of the Indian middle class. The education market is generally regarded as the only market towards which Indians are not price-sensitive because it has helped them reach their present standard of living and promises better earnings and prospects for their children. India’s education sector currently offers an estimated US$40 billion market, with a potential 16% five-year CAGR. The most attractive and scalable sectors in this group are test preparation, K-12 and preschools. An increase in GPRS use and the introduction of 3G technology in India should also give a boost to concepts such as e-learning in the country. The Indian middle class is expected to expand significantly, from 300 million people today to 583 million people in 2025. I will be working with Sramana to publish Deal Radar posts that profile some companies in this sector.
IBTIMES.com: International Business News, Financial News, Market News, Politics, Forex, Commodities - International Business Times Mixed results so far on Budget announcements With five months of financial year 2015-16 left, the time is right to assess the progress of announcements made by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget for 2015-16. The government cleared confusions relating to tax matters. However, most of these relate to Jaitley's maiden Budget for 2014-15. The finance ministry also did away with minimum alternate tax (MAT), not only on foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), but also on businesses without permanent establishment in India. However, this was not a Budget announcement, but a fallout of the proposal that did away with MAT on FPIs prospectively. The most important of these measures was to be the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from the next financial year. The government has already reached an agreement with the Reserve Bank of India on the monetary policy committee (MPC), which will fix policy rate. The finance ministry has described the Bankruptcy Law as the next big reform.
Foreign Universities: The Answer to India’s problems? I just read an article (Will Foreign Universities Come to India?) in BusinessWeekOnline written by Nandini Lakshman. Here, Nandini has strongly argued in favor of allowing foreign universities to set up their campuses in India. Many people in India now have similar idea. They feel that Indian students are going abroad for higher education and this is causing the country a lot of foreign exchange. “Even Indian companies have started to complain and are hiring foreign talent for critical positions. I agree with Nandini and I also wish that Indian government allows foreign universities to come to India. Read more information on Capella University, Kaplan University and University Of Maryland.
The Milli Gazette Before we could realize it, we have turned 13 ! Yes, 13 year of existence with the 16-31 December 2012 issue! A humble effort to put the community on the media map is a powerful voice today, heard not only in India but all over the world. The Milli Gazette which has been in the forefront of fighting against the terrorism libel against Indian Muslims. From 16 pages an issue we steadily progressed to 32 pages. Though we would love to add more colour pages and add more colour to our exisiting page by making them more lively through design, use of photos and cartoons and trying to present as complete a picture as possible of the Muslim community in India which remains our focus, unfortunately with the 1-15 January 2012 issue we had to reduce the number of pages to 24 to lessen the losses. We request all of you to prevail upon more and more people to subscribe and advertise in the MG as without such support base we will not be able to continue. Join the struggle to keep Milli Gazette alive! q
NDA's Bihar election hopes rest on the poor Two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers quickly finished breakfast at a roadside restaurant in Simrahi bazar in Supaul district, as they wanted to reach out to villagers with a new message from the party leadership. "There is nothing you can do to the MY (Muslim-Yadav) combination. We are, therefore, going with a clear message to target extremely backward classes (EBC) with a promise that a member of EBC will be made the chief minister if the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gets majority in the state," the BJP worker, who had come all the way from Patna to campaign in the Kosi region, told this reporter. He was carrying a Rashtriya Atipicharavarg Mahasabha (National EBC Mahasabha) visiting card that had the picture of, among others, BJP leader Prem Kumar. The last-minute shift, not officially announced though, to target EBC voters is one of the ways in which the BJP wants to make inroads in this Mahagathbandhan stronghold that is going to polls today.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade | IIFT | Mangement programs at IIFT The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the Government of India as an autonomous organization to help the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analyzing and disseminating data; and conducting research. Over the years, IIFT has undertaken path-breaking research studies with well-known organizations like WTO (World Trade Organization), World Bank, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. The Institute has also trained more than 40,000 business professionals across 30 countries in various facets of international business and trade policy via its Management Development Programs. IIFT admits students through Entrance test, for the various programs that are listed below. An IIFT aspirant has to follow the prescribed entrance procedure to get admission in the following courses. Programs Offered Admission Procedure Placement
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