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MHRD’s Rs 99,000 crore plan to up enrolment, research in higher edu

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mhrd-logoThe number of students in higher education in India is going to increase substantially over next seven years. The presentation made by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to the Consultatative Committee expressed that Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) will increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) from 18% to 30%. The scheme estimated to cost Rs.99000 crore will include other existing schemes in the sector.

The highlight of the scheme will be that central funding from MHRD and the UGC to institution will be through the state council of higher education as against the direct funding by the centre and UGC to educational institutions of higher education. Moreover, the funding by the Centre will be upto 90% and it will be available to even private institutions based on certain norms.

The scheme emphasizes to promote reforms in the state higher education system by creating and facilitating institutional structure for planning and monitoring at the state level. It will help to promote autonomy in state universities and include governance in the institutions. One of the goals of RUSA will be to ensure academic examination reforms in the higher education institutions and enable conversion of some of the universities into research universities at par with the best in the world.

The project will be implemented through HRD Ministry as a centrally sponsored scheme with matching contribution from the State government and Union Territories. It is proposed to set eligibility criteria for states to achieve a high and sustained impact of the project through monitoring and evaluation. The primary responsibility of the monitoring will lie with the institution themselves. The State Government and the Centre through The Project Appraisal Board will monitor the project annually. The main component of the programme is to set up New Universities and Upgrade the existing autonomous colleges to universities. The other attempt will be to convert colleges to Cluster Universities and set up new Model Colleges. The strategy will also include converting existing Degree colleges to Model Colleges.

The HRD Minister Dr M M Pallam Raju said collective effort should be made to raise standard of higher education and increase employability. He also wanted research be given more priority in the context of higher education. Pointing to various legislation relating to HRD pending in parliament, Dr Raju hoped that some of them will get parliamentary nod in the monsoon session.

Other related points that came up for discussion were expanding the institutional base by creating additional capacity in existing institutions and establishing new institutions in order to achieve enrolment targets; correcting regional imbalances in access to higher education by facilitating access to high quality institutions in urban and semi-urban areas creating opportunities for students from rural areas to get better access to better quality institutions; and improving equity in higher education by providing adequate opportunities of higher education to SC/STs and socially and educationally backward classes.

Applane Intros Cloud Based Time Table Generation Software for Schools

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Applane, cloud based Integrated Application Suite for schools, has added Cloud based Time Table Generation Software for the schools in their school solution portfolio.

It is time for schools to reopen and with it comes a huge burden on teachers to plan a time table for students. With a huge student base in schools managing and maintaining time table for teachers has always been a challenging work. However with the advent of technology what else can be a better bait to have a time table scheduling done in fraction of seconds.

The best part of the system is that it generates time table and also manages stress level for teachers and students through even distribution of subjects using a unique algorithm. The software manages the number of periods in a week/day, maximum consecutive periods of a teacher, teacher groups and section groups so that an optimum time table is generated for schools to work with. Multiple time tables for separate wings can be made and day wise substitution timetable is generated according to the teacher attendance. Above all system automatically works behind the scenes using built in artificial intelligence and suggests new time table based on previous timetables.

Applane for Education has made it easier for teachers to deal with their long working hours with a click. The penetration of Applane with their easy to handle cloud based software Time Table Generation software in the schools has paved a smart way for teachers Thus, governing the whole school management with a mouse game.

Shobhit Elhance , VP, Applane says “We at Applane aim at providing end to end solutions to the schools. The effective planning of school’s time table using a cloud based and user friendly software technology will help reduce the burden of both teachers as well as students. School Teachers can finally sight some relief with this new technique of creating School Time Table with a single click.”

Dell Announces Dell Champs 2013 School Programme

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Dell has announced “Dell Champs – 2013” School Programme, a 20 city student-outreach programme themed, “Education, Empowerment and Entertainment”. The programme is in line with the Dell’s latest campaign “I can do kuch bhi” emphasising the importance of computer in daily lives in the areas such as studies, entertainment, research or browsing.
P Krishnakumar, Executive Director & General Manager, Consumer & SB, Dell India, said, “Our objective is to connect with students and their parents together and discuss the role of computers in their life and how they can use it safely to help in the overall development of their child. The initiative is aimed at strengthening the relationship with the student community and creating a bond with them because they are the future for our brand.”
The programme features a technology-based quiz contest to provide the parents with a platform to participate with their child. This quiz contest will reveal the geniuses of tomorrow in 400 schools across 20 Tier-II and Tier-III cities throughout India.The competition will be conducted in three levels with the first being the “School level”, followed by an Interactive Internet Safety workshop. The second round will involve the top two school teams to compete in the “City level” contest, and the 20-city level finalists will complete in an online quiz in the National level.

The winning team of the “Dell Champs – 2013” will receive a Dell AIO Monitor and Rs 25,000 scholarship from Dell and their school will be awarded a Dell-powered study lab equipped with the Dell AIO, projector and interactive screen.

Govt Invites Comment on Aakash IV Tech Specs

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Aakash is a series of Android-based tablet computers produced by an initiative of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development. It is a low-cost tablet computer with a 7-inch touch screen. The device was developed as part of the country’s aim to link 25,000 colleges and 400 universities in an e-learning program. The cost of basic version for a student was only Rs 1500, which was around USD35. In July 2010, the Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal unveiled a prototype of Aakash, which was later given out to 500 college students to collect feedback. The tablet was officially launched as Aakash in New Delhi on 5 October 2011. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India announced an upgraded second-generation model called Aakash 2 in April 2012. In this series, the new version of Aakash has been named Aakash IV.

A Committee regarding continuous R&D and timely delivery of Aakash was constituted by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT, on 22nd December, 2011. A Sub-Committee comprising of technical experts has prepared the proposed vendor neutral Technical Specifications of Aakash IV, which specify minimum hardware requirements, minimum software requirements, mechanical and environmental specifications, safety and other standards compliance, maintenance and serviceability, other features, contents of tablet package and testing criteria. These specifications have been developed with a view to have a low cost device. The Committee has decided that the proposed specifications be put up on the websites of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) to enable all interested stakeholders to give their comments on the proposed technical specifications of Aakash IV device over a period of two weeks.

The proposed technical specifications of Aakash IV can be viewed on MHRD and Department of Electronics and IT Website. Last date for submitting comment is July 12, 2013.

Aircel Launches Exclusive Plan for College Students

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Aircel has announced bundled offer for college students of Bengaluru entering into the new academic year. The bundled product offering will be made available in over 50 colleges through a special campus activation sponsorship called Notezine.

The exclusive plan designed to benefit the student offers: 100,000 Local Aircel to Aircel Seconds (validity period of 30 days), Rs 120 talk time (Rs.20 per month for 6 months), 1p per 2sec Local and STD (validity period of 90 days),97 SMS Local and STD free per day (First 3 SMS charged at 50 paise per message), Free 3G Data from morning 6am to 9am for 30 days

K Kadhiravan, Circle Business Head, Karnataka, Aircel Limited said, “Aircel has a strong focus on today’s students requirements. Pioneering the data space, with more students using 3G enabled devices on the move for music, videos, TV shows, gaming, sharing photos and more, it is very important to create suitable and advanced products for them. Products like Plan voucher 77 , Good morning Bengaluru , PocketInetrnet 24 are benefits where students can enjoy staying connected with their friends and an opportunity to try our 3G data services. We hope to give something “Extra” to the students with this unique offering.”

Notezine is a combination of a magazine and a notebook developed to engage college youth with knowledge and information; contributed by a network of 2500 students across various colleges.

Indian Girl Shines Google Science Fair

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Srishti Asthana ,15 year-old, has made the whole nation proud by acquiring a coveted spot at the finals of the Google Science Fair, 2013. She is the only participant from India to have made it to the finals stage.

Srishti, who is a Class XI student from Millenium School , Mohali (Punjab) presented a project on Solar Light Assisted nanoZnO Photo Catalytic Mineralization- a Green Technique for the Degradation of Detergents and was chosen from amongst thousands of participants from 120 countries.

The inspiration for this project began when Srishti went on a field trip to Ludhiana and was disturbed by the dire state of industry disposal waste. Thus began her sojourn to find a green solution to turn waste detergent water from industrial waste into an eco-friendly alternative. You can read more about the project here.

The 15 finalists will be taken to the Google Mountain View headquarters, USA on September 23 to present their projects to an international panel of esteemed scientists for the final round of judging. The Grand Prize winner will receive a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions, $50,000 in scholarship funding and more.

The Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American and started in January 2011. The competition is open to 13–18 year old students around the globe, who formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and present their results.

While the official judges will decide the 2013 Grand Prize Winner, in August one will be able to participate in this year’s competition by voting for the Inspired Idea Award. Visit the Google Science Fair website August 1-30 to vote for the project you think has the greatest potential to change the world.

UGC bats for more fellowships, reservations

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ugcThe University Grants Commission (UGC) is planning to undertake a series of measures like increasing number of fellowships, reservations and financial assistance to girls.

The higher education regulator is aiming to bridge the gaps in higher education arising out of gender, social groups, and minorities. It also pointed out another ‘key concern’ being the low enrolment in teacher education, which stood merely at three per cent.

The UGC Chairman Ved Prakash also stressed on the need to have greater number of trained teachers to strengthen the school education, as through a good school education the quality of higher education can also be improved.

In the last few years, the UGC has allocated Rs 4,684 crore for supporting nearly 18.94 lakh students from as many as 6,562 institutions.

(Source: PTI)

IIM-Udaipur To Adopt Education Solutions from Campus Management Corp

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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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TimesProMedia 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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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.

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