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

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Obama-Singh2-2010The 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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India recently imagespledged 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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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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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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FYUPHRD 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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mid-day-meal_65The 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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NIT TrichyThe 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)

AG8 opens Sprouts Preschool in Bhopal

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Preschools-in-Mumbai-family1AG8 builders have opened Sprouts preschool in Bhopal that is claimed to be central India’s biggest preschool campus. It was inaugurated in a grand ceremony in the presence of Chief Guest Lina Parasuram, President, IASOWA, Hemant Kumar, CMD, AG8 (Aakriti Group), and Manju Soni, Chairperson, Aakriti Educare Pvt. Ltd.

The eco friendly campus offers unique features like soft floor to prevent the tiny tots  from hurting themselves. It also incorporates special teaching methods that aims to provide a complete fun learning atmosphere to the kids. It will function on the basis of a concept called CALM “Campus as Learning Material”, where every building element is mapped with the curriculum and used as a learning material is also followed in the new campus to make the learning easy for the tiny tots.

RIICO, IIMA partner to promote start-ups

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The Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO) has recently signed an agreement with Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad.

RIICO is aiming  to promote entrepreneurship in the B school through its  incubation centre named ‘Startup Oasis’ . As per the MoU, CIIE will manage the centre located at Sitapura and nurture young talent in the IT field, while RIICO is providing all the support for skill development and promoting entrepreneurship.

Officials expect the incubator to incubate over 60 startup ventures over the next three years.

(Source: PTI)

IGNOU organises its first-ever pre-admission counselling

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is  holding its first-ever pre-admission counselling for various academic programmes to guide admission-seekers.

“The session is being held at IGNOU campus from 10:30am to 5pm on weekdays till July 31, which is the last date of admission,” the university statement said.

IGNOU is the world’s largest open university system. It has a pan-India as well as international reach. The varsity has flexible entry qualifications and a wide range of academic programmes at affordable costs. It offers nearly 490 certificate, diploma, degree and doctoral programmes.

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