Pearson owns various businesses, including the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group. Educomp is an education services provider, while Bangalore-based TutorVista is an online tutoring company.
Looking to add 2 lakh subscribers by next year, e-learning solutions provider Educomp Solutions Ltd on Wednesday launched its new portal Mathguru.com, which will serve as an online tutor to help students solve mathematical problems.
Reliance Communications, Reliance Infratel, Huawei Technologies and Walt Disney Company (India) are among the companies which misused or diverted funds raised from abroad under the ECB route in the last three years, Parliament was informed on Friday.
Shares of companies related to education sector surged as much as 12 per cent on Thursday after Finance Minister P Chidambaram allocated Rs 65,867 crore (Rs 658.67 billion) to the HRD Ministry and said one overarching goal is to provide education and skills to youth for securing jobs in 2013-14.
After its stock fell 22 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange, education solutions provider Educomp Solutions filed a complaint with the Additional Commissioner of Police, Economic Offences Wing, Crime Branch (Delhi Police) to identify the source of malicious emails alleging account manipulation, and has sought action against them.
Allocation for the sector has been set at Rs 52,057 crore, up from Rs. 31,036 crore in the previous year.
New Delhi-based e-learning company Educomp Solutions has worked on a novel business model under which it will invest over Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) to "enable" setting up around 150 schools over the next four years.Under this model, Educomp will earn its return on investment by providing intellectual property (IP) for the schools through its Educomp School Management programme and leasing infrastructure through its subsidiary Educomp Infrastructure.
Quantum (M) has acquired three lakh shares representing 1.18 per cent stake worth Rs 112.35 crore (Rs 1.12 billion) in the company by private placement of shares, Educomp said in a disclosure to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Prior to the acquisition the foreign fund held 4.79 per cent stake, which increased to 5.97 per cent comprising 11.29 lakh shares in the IT education services provider.
India, with 22 entries, is fourth in terms of the number of the companies included in the list, which is led by Greater China outperforming the others in the Asia-Pacific region with 88 entries followed by Taiwan and Japan with 24 and 23 firms, respectively. The annual 'Best Under a Billion' list picks the best 200 small and medium sized companies from 24,155 listed firms in the Asia-Pacific region.
Leading online education company Educomp Solutions Ltd on Thursday said it would enter the capital markets to raise Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) through an initial public offer to fund its global expansion programme.
With the midcap frenzy on, lets take a look at some IPOs of 2006. Investment Advisor, PN Vijay and Deven Choksey of KR Choksey Securities discuss which ones are still way above their issue price and which ones are languishing.
I would fund the development of a real convergence device
A stumbling economy, a falling currency and high inflation, plus weak consumer demand, mean more and more become excess baggage.
In total, BSE would shift as many as 40 securities to the trade-for-trade category or 'T' Group while NSE would transfer 18 scrips to the segment on its platform, as per separate notices issued by both the bourses.
This measure will ensure that the price of a scrip cannot move upward or downward beyond a limit set for the day.
Entrepreneurship, education and training will be provided in 2,200 colleges, 300 schools, 500 government ITIs and 50 vocational training centres through massive open online courses.
BSE Midcap index outperformed the benchmark indices to end with 0.4% gains.
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Education sector has reasosn to cheer Budget.
Only 2.3% of the Indian workforce has undergone formal skill training, as compared to 68% in UK and 52% in the US
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