IIM-Udaipur To Adopt Education Solutions from Campus Management Corp

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June 28, 2013

Campus Management Corp, provider of enterprise software products and services for higher education, has announced that Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur has selected Campus Management as its software provider for supporting its academic experience management needs. Selected solutions from the CampusVue Ecosystem include CampusVue Student, Talisma CRM, CampusVue Portal, CampusVue Finance, CampusVue HR, and a variety of application programming interfaces (APIs).

After a comprehensive evaluation process covering global higher education technology vendors and their solutions, IIM-Udaipur selected Campus Management as its exclusive education software provider. In evaluation areas such as functionality, configurability, scalability and integration capabilities, Campus Management’s suite of software solutions fulfilled the requirements stipulated by IIM-Udaipur’s evaluation committee. IIM-Udaipur also considered Campus Management’s experience in arming leading academic institutions across the globe with solutions aligned to their academic and student engagement vision.

“Because of Campus Management’s footprint in the Higher Education space, they understand our technological and functional needs. We are confident the selected solutions will enable us to better streamline the student life cycle right from admissions to alumni relations,” said Janat Shah, Director, IIM-Udaipur. “We are poised to increase our intake and rollout newer programs for our increasing student base and we’re seeking solutions that align to our vision of academic excellence. Campus Management’s offerings met our needs whichmade them the right fit for our institution.”

“We see ourselves as IIM Udaipur’s long term technology partner. Our suite of solutions is just one of the avenues through which we will be enhancing our mutual technology partnership. As IIM Udaipur grows and expands its academic footprint and student base, we will work with them to support their expansion. We bring to this partnership our world class suite of products, our leadership in the higher education technology space and our commitment to assist IIM Udaipur meet its evolving Information and Communication Technology (ICT) needs at a faster pace,” said Raj Mruthyunjayappa, Senior Executive at Campus Management and Managing Director of Talisma Corporation Pvt. Ltd.

Times of India group forays into education sector

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June 28, 2013

Media giant, the Times of India Group, recently forayed into the education sector, with the launch of the Times Centre for Learning.

Under the banner TimesPro, these learning centres will offer professional courses. Theywill be spread across Mumbai, Noida, Jaipur, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar.

Its flagship programme, Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Management, has been launched recently. The course aims to cater to the rising demand for skilled graduates in the banking industry given the demand created by the influx of private banks in the coming years due to the amendments made by RBI.

In addition to this, TimesPro will offer graduation courses in BFSI (banking and financial industry), media, organised retail, hospitality and healthcare.

Interestingly, the HT Media Group also recently partnered with Apollo Global Inc., the largest for-profit college in the US, to launch of a business school that targets the corporate sector. The joint venture (JV) has been christened ‘India Education Services’ and its flagship institution Bridge School of Management, is currently at a concept stage.

Pathfinder Education Services Announces CLAT Test Series

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June 28, 2013

Pathfinder Education services is intended to provide inclusive classroom training programs to prepare students for the Bank Probationary Officers (PO), clerical exams, CAT, and CLAT.

CLAT Test series is exclusively for students looking to clear CLAT exams. The test series is highly beneficial for students who want to achieve high ranks in the examinations. Students can directly order these unique and helpful CLAT test series from its online website at the discounted prices. It is aimed to improve the overall performance of students for their bright future.

Pathfinder Education services is intended to provide inclusive classroom training programs to prepare students for the Bank Probationary Officers (PO), clerical exams, CAT, and CLAT. The website is very innovative, helpful, and provides worthy information to the students. It offers CAT, CLAT, & Bank PO papers, free Gk stuff, free quant questions, as well as free vocabulary for the students appearing for CAT, CLAT and Bank PO exams.

India and US to hold Higher Education Dialogue 2013 on June 25

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June 24, 2013

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister M M Pallam Raju and visiting US Secretary of State John F Kerry are to co-chair India-US Higher Education Dialogue on 25th June, 2013 in New Delhi.

During the dialogue, the two sides will take up research and innovation partnership under Singh-Obama Knowledge Initiative, institutional partnership and skill development as well as promotion of community colleges in India and technology enabled education including massive Open Online Courses. IIT – Bombay is entering into an MoU with edx. The intended outcome also includes two-way students’ mobility from India to USA and vice-versa. India and US will also take up linkage between industry and academia and faculty development. They are also expected to take up issues like post Doctoral Research and co-operation in training for the school teachers.

During the dialogue, major announcements are expected. This includes second round of Singh-Obama Knowledge Initiative Awards which have 8 joint research programmes under it, first batch of 126 Raman Fellows, who are being sponsored by UGC to take up Post-Doctoral research in US institutions and “Connect India” Programme for US students to come to India.

To promote community colleges in India, a framework has been developed by the HRD Ministry after the first India-US Higher Education Summit and International Conference on Community Colleges. It was organized in February this year in the Indian capital. Following un-precedented response from both academia and the industry, five community college principals/leaders will be sponsored for a visit to community colleges in US for the leadership development. The two sides may also agree to promote cyber networks through IIT Delhi and University of Nebraska.

The Plenary session will be followed by three working session on students mobilities and research collaborations, community colleges and technology enabled education. The working sessions would be co-chaired by higher education secretary Ashok Thakur and US Under Secretary of State Tara Sonenshine.

The HRD Minister had visited USA last month for forging linkages and collaborations in the field of Higher Education. The educational relations have intensified between India and USA after the visit of the Prime Minister of India to USA in 2009 and reciprocal visit of the President of USA Mr. Barack Obama to India in 2010. The first India-US Higher Education summit was convened at Washington DC in October, 2011.

India to grant Rs 40 million for school building in Nepal

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June 20, 2013

India recently pledged to provide a grant of nearly Rs 41 million to Nepal for the construction of a new, three-storied school building under Nepal-India Economic Cooperation Programme. The financial aid will also help in creating better facilities for over 1,000 students, about half of whom are girls.

The decision comes as a part of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the embassy of India, district development committee, Kapilvastu and Shree Higher Secondary School located in Kapilvastu district.

The school established in 1979 is currently in dilapidated condition and is unable to serve the growing requirements of the students.

Furthermore, India is assisting work for three other projects worth Rs 95.60 million in Kapilvastu District.

(Source: PTI)

Maha Approves One Year Jail Term for Fake Educational Institution Owners

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June 20, 2013

In last few years, India has seen rapid growth of unauthorised and illegal educational institutions. Restricting this malpractice, Maharashtra state cabinet has approved a draft ordinance.

According to the provisions of the proposed ordinance, the owners, management and proprietors of such institutions will face a maximum prison term of one year and could be fined anything between Rs one lakh and Rs five lakh. Issuing bogus advertisements will also attract, under the provisions of the proposed law, a fine ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs one lakh. It has been proposed that educational institutions in the field of higher and technical education, agriculture, dairy development, medical education, veterinary science and all courses will be covered under the new law.

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had brought to the notice of the state government that there were 80 bogus educational institutions in the state.

BSNL Partners with Oracle to Strengthen Summer Training for Engineering Students

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June 19, 2013

BSNL has collaborated with Oracle to strengthen BSNL’s summer vocational training programme for engineering students. This is the first time that BSNL has engaged with an external organisation such as Oracle and introduced new curriculum content to enable students’ exposure to the latest technology trends relevant in the telecom industry. Only last year, over 100,000 students across India were trained through BSNL programmes.

As part of its industry-oriented academic initiative, BSNL runs programmes related to telecom technologies for engineering students during their summer vacations. These programmes are aimed at providing exposure to relevant telecom technology trends and practices to students as they prepare to enter the workforce in the telecom industry. They give students an overview of working in the telecommunication sector and include field visits to telephone exchanges, mobile towers and systems labs of BSNL. These programmes are coordinated through various training centres of BSNL, operating since decades, which along with other field set-ups have now been opened for capacity building initiatives also.

Neeraj Verma, General Manager – Training, BSNL, said, “We are glad to be working with Oracle in our effort to bring industry-relevant education to engineering students across India. Our engagement with Oracle is an important initiative that will help supplement our efforts in building a skilled workforce for the telecom sector in India.”

Starting June 17, 2013, these workshops, which are being embedded within the structure of BSNL’s course content for the summer vocational programme for engineering students, will include a one-day programme conducted by Oracle on upcoming technology trends. In the first phase, the workshops will be held at BSNL training centres in Ghaziabad, Pune, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata from June to August 2013. BSNL will connect students in other centres/field units to these workshops via web platform.

Teachers should support DU’s FYUP programme, says Raju

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June 19, 2013

HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju has urged a section of agitating Delhi University teachers to come forward and support the implementation of the controversial four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP).

The programme has drawn criticism from a section of teachers and students who allege that the new programme will affect students coming from the marginalised sections of the society. The naysayers think that the students coming from weaker sections, especially those belonging to SC, ST and OBC, would face difficulties in pursuing the new programme given the expenditure of an additional year.

Under the new pattern, the current 10+2+3 scheme will entail an additional year. A diploma will be awarded if a student exits after two years, a bachelor’s degree after three years and a bachelor’s degree with honours or a B Tech degree on completion of four years.

(Source: PTI)

High-tech system to monitor mid day meal scheme:MHRD

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June 19, 2013

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) will introduce a state-of-the-art system to monitor the mid day meal scheme on a real- time basis. The scheme will be monitored through latest communication system – Inter Voice Response System, on a daily basis.

The information will be uploaded from every school giving details of the number of children having been provided food in every school. The system will integrate web-portal with Inter Voice Response System through Cloud Telephonic. It will be the responsibility of the Head of the school to upload the website.

Problems, if any, can be fixed by taking corrective action through the district administration. On the issue of quality of food, the system will allow any stake holder including community leader, to file complaint.

The Government has also set up a panel under the Director of Nutrition Foundation of India, Dr. Prema Rama Chand on calorific norms. The MHRD is also making an endeavour for strengthening the monitoring system of the scheme.

The mid day meal scheme is the largest school nutrition programme. It covers more than ten and a half crore school children in over 12 lakh government-aided and other local bodies schools. It is designed to promote school participation and prevent class room hunger. The gap between the calories needed and calories available increases from 450 to 700 among the kids from pre-school to in-school.

The scheme has helped in addressing the problems of class room hunger by providing regular source of supplementary food.

NIT-T to hire 120 assistant professors

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June 18, 2013

The National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi (NIT-T) will recruit 120 assistant professors for its several undergraduate engineering departments.

Currently, the institute has 245 faculty members against the total sanctioned staff strength of 393. The requirement for staff has surged following implementation of 27 per cent OBC reservation due to which student strength had gone up.

The institute, , which is celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year, may also induct assistant professors with minimum of M Tech qualification on contract basis.

The vacancies are more in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, and metallurgical and materials engineering department.

Keeping with the rule that the student-teacher ratio should be 1:12, 80 temporary faculty members with a monthly remuneration of Rs. 42,000 each to candidates with Ph.D. and Rs. 35,000 for those with PG qualification would be appointed.

(Source: PTI)

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