Maha Govt to set-up nursing and paramedical education board

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May 10, 2013

Maharashtra government has approved a proposal to set-up a nursing and paramedical education board. All the policy decisions regarding curriculum of courses in these streams will be taken by the board.

The board will also take decisions on textbooks and their development, guidelines and laying down conditions for admissions, among other issues and also decided to approve setting up of an agriculture university at Golewada in Hingoli district in Marathwada region.

Sixty-five posts will be created, incurring a cost of Rs 38.65 crore, at the varsity which will have an in-take capacity of 60 students. The decision will encourage youth from Hingoli district to take up agriculture-related business ventures.

UGC mandates affiliated colleges to set-up grievance redressal mechanism for students

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May 10, 2013

UGC has passed a mandate that all recognised instituitons and universities will have to set up a grievance redressal mechanism for students. Under this mechanism students can lodge their complaints on matters related to admissions, irregularities, victimisation and sexual harassment.

The University Grants Commission has published a gazette notification about the UGC ( Grievance Redressal) Regulations, 2012 which seeks to set up an ombudsman for redressal of grievances of students. The regulations stipulates every higher education institution for mandatory publication of prospectus, it content and pricing, each component of the tuition fee and number of seats approved for each course and programme.

Significantly, the regulations comes even as a number of legislations related to reforms in higher education — some of which seeks to achieve the above said purpose — are stuck in Parliament for over two years now.

The regulations calls for setting up of grievance redressal committee, which would be constituted by vice chancellor of an affiliated university and comprise of senior professor as its chairman and three senior teachers drawn from affiliating colleges on rotation basis.

The redressal mechanism would act as a platform where a student can not only lodge complaints against any irregularities in admission process, withhold or refusal to return any document or certificates, but can also lodge complaints of harassment and victimisation including sexual harassment.

Mark Parkinson quits Kunskapsskolan, Gurgaon

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May 10, 2013

Kunskapsskolan Eduventures Ltd is a joint venture between Kunskapsskolan Education and Gyandarshan Eduventures. The school offers K-12 education based on the KED programme for Indian and international students, with the highest academic standards and in a first class learning environment in Gurgaon, outside Delhi.

Kunskapsskolan Eduventures has opened its first Kunskapsskolan International School in Gurgaon headed by Mark Parkinson. A Britisher from origin, Mark Parkinson has an extensive background and reputation as an educational leader and innovator in India. He is currently appointed as the Executive Director of Kunskapsskolan Eduventures (India) Ltd and Head of School, Kunskapsskolan Gurgaon. Operating a chain of 37 schools across Sweden, the US and the UK, Kunskapsskolan Education AB is renowned for its novel approach that ensures excellent student performance year after year.

Prior to his current role, Parkinson has been the Director of Shri Ram Schools – one of the top school groups in the National Capital Region. Mark Parkinson is also a well-known contributor to the Indian public debate on Education and a strong advocate for innovations in K-12 Education. He has a Cambridge certificate in English Language Teaching.

Delhi University approves four-year undergraduate programme

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May 10, 2013

Delhi University has given approval to four-year undergraduate programme. Twenty-one members of the executive council met to discuss the changes in the syllabi, course structure, admission process, evaluation process and promotion criteria that were approved the night before by the Academic Council (AC).

The AC passed the courses with six dissents (with 86 members voting in favour of FYUP) and the EC with two (19 for FYUP). With these approvals, all formal requirements as per the University of Delhi Act, statutes and ordinances have been complied with and the university is all set to launch the programme.

The AC and EC have also cleared changes to grade nomenclature and the names, associate baccalaureate, baccalaureate and baccalaureate with honours, have finally been junked in favour of diploma, bachelor and bachelor with honours/BTech, respectively.

The AC had also decided to extend the span period. Now the time allowed to a student to complete a course is up to 10 years. The change proposed in the agenda was six years from the year of admission in the first semester, irrespective of whether the students will be awarded a diploma, bachelor degree or bachelor with honours/B Tech degree, provided the student has completed all requirements to become eligible for appearing in the University examinations as per rules.

The executive council had passed various draft ordinances pertaining to admission, examinations and 44 courses in a matter of three and a half hours. It is unfortunate that a major overhauling is taking place without allowing the Executive Council to scrutinize the agenda papers.

Koenig Solutions unveils IT training campus in Delhi

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May 10, 2013

Koenig Solutions, Offshore IT Training firm, has unveiled its training campus in Delhi. The firm claims is the world’s largest offshore IT Training facility, providing end-to-end solutions to corporate.

The campus, spread over an area of 18,000 sq ft, includes 70 classrooms and 30 testing stations and provides end-to-end solutions including accommodation, examination facilities, meals, daily transport etc, which are part of the course fee.

Koenig has a total of five centres in India — Goa, Shimla, Dehradhun, Delhi and Bangalore — as well as a training facility in Dubai. There are plans in place to expand it further in more such tourist centres. The company is looking at setting up training facilities in cities like Chennai and Pune in India and globally in West, South and East Africa.

According to Rohit Aggarwal, CEO and founder, Koenig Solutions, the IT training and certification today is a $20 billion industry worldwide and the education tourism market in India alone could become $1 billion by 2020. Koenig’s education tourism business model is unique and aims to tap this growing market. Koenig claims to have trained more than 20,000 students from over 50 countries since its inception in 1993, and has seen its trainer pool swell to 250.

The firm offers over 100 IT courses and is the authorised training partner of Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, VMware, Novell, Adobe, EMC, Citrix, Linux Professional Institute, among others.

(Source: PTI)

NIIT offers 100 courses on Cloud

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May 10, 2013

NIIT Limited has announced an initiative ‘Cloud Campus’, for redefining the education landscape by making available new-age skills, to students across the breadth of the country.

NIIT aims to offer over 100 courses across 300 locations by the end of 2013, thus enabling a coverage of over 500,000 students by 2014. NIIT will offer training programmes in IT, Banking, Global Finance, Management, Digital & Social Media Marketing, through Cloud Campus with innovative learning features. NIIT Cloud Campus will empower the youth of the country by providing new-age training programmes through the cutting-edge Cloud technology, to make them first day-first hour industry ready professionals.

NIIT Cloud Campus harnesses the power of Cloud technology to provide unique features – such as Cloud Classroom, Cloud Courseware, Anywhere Lab, Lesson on Demand, Online Assessments, and Buddynet Learning

Speaking on this significant announcement Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Ltd. said, “NIIT will usher the next revolution in education through Cloud Campus.”

This pioneering initiative from NIIT will help take high quality educational programs to the remotest corners of the country, thus addressing the dilemma of scalability and quality in education that our country is currently facing. NIIT Cloud CampusTM is based on a revolutionary educational paradigm which takes students beyond the traditional classroom teaching. It seamlessly blends classrooms, Cloud enabled classrooms and collaborated learning into India’s first Cloud Campus. Further, NIIT has set up www.niitcloudcampus.com as a student gateway to help them identify trends in new age skills and offer more information on NIIT Cloud Campus.

Vijay Thadani, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Ltd. said, “Cloud is undoubtedly the future of learning. NIIT will empower the youth of the country by providing new age skills in domains across IT and emerging technologies, Banking, Global Finance, Management, Digital and Social Media Marketing.”

Long Term Career Programs for college students seeking new-age careers, Accelerated Programs in IT & Banking & Global finance domains for graduates, New Technology & Advanced skills courses for working professionals in IT, Marketing and General Management will be offered through Cloud Campus.

This breakthrough initiative from NIIT is likely to have huge impact on the education industry that is currently plagued by the dual challenges of quality and scalability. With smart phones and tablets becoming more affordable, most Indian youth are accessing internet through their handset. According to a mobile survey conducted by IPSOS & Google, Indian smartphone users are accessing the Internet more than their counterparts in the US. The survey reveals that 36 per cent of all smartphone owners in India are in the age group of 18- 29.

Arsenal to kick-off soccer schools across India from June

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May 9, 2013

English Football Club, Arsenal , has inked a long-term deal with India on Track to open a number of official Arsenal Soccer Schools across the country.

Looking to tap into the growing soccer craze in the country, the club is expected to open its first centre in Delhi in June this year. It will offer sessions led by Arsenal-trained coaching staff to the students with an aim to ensure the key principles of ‘playing the Arsenal way’.

The announcement was made on the club’s website Arsenal.com.

Arsenal Football Club is an English Premier League football club. It is among one of the most successful clubs in English football, having won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups.

Govt to set up defence university in Gurgaon

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May 9, 2013

The Union Cabinet has accorded ‘in- principle’ approval to the setting up of Indian National Defence University (INDU) in District Gurgaon, Haryana.

In INDU it is proposed, inter alia, to conduct courses of varying durations on subjects ranging from Strategic Studies, War Gaming and Simulation, Neighbourhood Studies, Counter insurgency and Counter Terrorism, Chinese Studies, Evaluation of Strategic Thought, International Security Issues, Maritime Security Studies, Eurasian Studies, South East Asian Studies, material acquisition, joint logistics, national security strategy in peace and war, etc.

Setting up of INDU would not affect the pattern of selection and training through NDA and CDS. The existing institutions National Defence College (NDC), College of Defence Management (CDM), National Defence Academy (NDA) and Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) are proposed to be brought under the ambit of INDU without diluting their powers or autonomy.

IIT-JEE’s (Mains) national topper and 8,000 other aspirants hail from Jharkhand

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May 9, 2013

Ranchi: Anagh Prasad, hailing from Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi, became the all India topper in the prestigious IIT-JEE mains exam this year. He scored 345 out of 360 marks.

It was a proud moment for the 18-year-old’s parents Ambresh and Deeksha Prasad, who were ecstatic about his feat.

Apart from this, nearly 8,000 engineering aspirants from Jharkhand cracked the examination — adding more feathers in the state’s cap. Almost 45,000 students from the state had appeared in the first IIT-JEE.

The exam, which was earlier known as All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), has been renamed as the JEE (main) from this year, and the pattern of the examination has changed. The advance test will be held on June 2.

Also from this year, Class XII board marks will carry 40% weightage and JEE marks will carry 60% weightage for admissions to IITs.

The marks of the IIT-JEE (Main) will decide admission to centrally-funded institutions including the reputed ones like IITs and National Institute of Technology.

Shashi Tharoor to discuss the future of higher education in India on Google+

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May 9, 2013

Minister of state for HRD, Shashi Tharoor, one of the early adopters of social media in India and a true believer in the power of the Internet, will take questions from citizens on the future of higher education in the country. Higher education is one of the principal drivers of the economic growth of a country.

On May 9th, 2013 at 7 pm (IST), he will be joined by people from across the globe on a Google+ Hangout.

His Google+ Hangout will be moderated by senior journalist Sonia Singh. Dr Tharoor will be addressing questions on challenges in higher education like faculty shortage, low number of accredited institutions and more.

Google+ is all about creating a better experience across Google, and provides a powerful communications platform for users. Since its launch in July 2011, the Google+ community has grown rapidly with more than 500 million users worldwide. Google+ Hangouts allow up to 10 people participating at a point of time to join the hangout. You can later share the hangout on YouTube or live stream it using Hangouts on Air.

Watch out for the Google+ Hangout live with Dr Shashi Tharoor on the Google India +Page at google.com/+GoogleIndia or subscribe to the InConversation YouTube channel. You can participate in this hangout by posting your questions for Dr Tharoor on this link: http://googleindia.blogspot.in/2013/05/join-dr-shashi-tharoor-on-google-to.html

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