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US university to establish high-tech pathology lab in Hyderabad

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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center  (UPMC) has inked an agreement to set up a top-notch clinical pathology laboratory in India’s Hyderabad city.

It is collaborating with the Citizens Hospital to establish a clinical pathology laboratory.  Spread over a sprawling 10.5-acre campus, ‘AmPath’, will be able to serve more than seven million people in the metropolis.

The lab is expected to become fully operation by 2015. It will offer 650 patient rooms and a gamut of health care services.

With this, the premier American university is aiming to provide world-class facilities to raise the health care standards in the country.

The facility is also expected to become a reference lab serving patients in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

(Source: PTI)

Every university should identify one department that can be developed into a centre of excellence, says President

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The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the fourth Convocation of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) today (May 10, 2013) at Lucknow.

Speaking on the occasion, the President said that education is a crucial element for national progress, human empowerment and social change. He said that the rising incidents of crime against women and children call for effective measures to ensure their safety and security. It also calls for arresting the moral decline in our society. He said that we must find solutions for bringing such degradation of values to an immediate halt. He stated that our universities, that possess the capability to shape the minds of the youth, should set the process of redefining our moral values in motion.

The President said that there is a need to change the mechanics of rendering education and the time for it is now. He said that our universities must deliver education of international standards. Every university should identify one department that can be developed into a Centre of Excellence. He called upon the Central universities to spearhead this transformation.

The President said that increasing the access to higher education is a necessary step towards inclusion. It must be made affordable for meritorious students from economically difficult background through scholarships, student loans and other student-aid measures. He said that our efforts must be directed at bringing higher education closer to our population by resorting to innovative techniques of education delivery.

The President said that there are teachers who motivate students to think from different perspectives. These teachers can spur holistic learning and new thinking, he added. He stated that our universities should be able to identify such ‘inspired teachers’ and encourage them to mentor junior teachers and students.

The President said that there are many grassroots innovations that, due to lack of technological and commercial support, remain denied of development into marketable products. He stated that mentoring of grass root innovators by universities and industry would help in taking the benefits of technology closer to the people.

On the occasion, the President also inaugurated an Innovators’ Exhibition and BBAU Innovation Club. BBAU is the first Central University to set up these two elements related to innovation. During the Vice Chancellors’ Conference held earlier this year in Rashtrapati Bhavan, it was decided to set up an Innovation Club and exhibition of regional innovators in Central Universities. The Innovation Club will search, spread, sense and celebrate the innovation of the region in which Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University is located.

Among the dignitaries present on the occasion, were Governor of Uttar Pradesh, BL Joshi, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Jitin Prasada.

Minister of HRD to visit US for dialogue on higher education

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The Minister of Human Resource Development, Dr M M Pallam Raju has informed the media that he would be on the US visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston from 13th to 18th of May, 2013. This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US during the same year, the Minister added.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

The Minister also discussed Connect to India programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty. The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. The Minister expressed the hope that the partnership in scientific research and technology will definitely have its impact on academic world.

The Minister further added that he has been invited by the Temple University, Philadelphia to receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honaris Causa, at the 126th commencement exercises on May 16, 2013. The Commencement exercises will be held at the Liacouras Center on Temple’s Main Campus.

The Minister’s visit will also focus on development of community colleges in India. The HRD Minister stated that the US has a very healthy, vibrant and strong network of community colleges which responds to the local needs. It is an informal system of education and building up of vocational skills and caters to the local requirements,. The American Association of community colleges is very keen on visiting India and making their presence in India. As far as school education is concerned, as a part building of capacity of teachers, educators and teachers would be sent to various US universities. First batch will be leaving shortly, he said.

The Minister also answered a volley of questions on four year under graduate programme of Delhi University, normalization of JEE (mains) exam, RTE, accreditation of higher institutes of learning for quality education, etc. On the issue of four year course he said that the Ministry does not have any intent to impinge on the autonomy of Delhi University. On the question of RTE he stated that the major concern is the shortcoming in the capacity of teachers and the Government is working on it.

Knowing Gujarat SSC/HSC Board results just a SMS away

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Gandhinagar: Telecommunications giant Vodafone India will provide its customers the Gujarat Board’s SSC and HSC results on their mobile phones this year.

Vodafone is offering the service is at a nominal price of one rupee per SMS.

The Vodafone post-paid and pre-paid customers can SMS “HSC (seat number)” or “SSC (seat number) to 50111.

The customers can also avail a pre-registration facility with the service provider to receive the results as soon as they are announced.

The results are expected to be announced between May end and first week of June. Over 15 lakh students of SSC and HSC appeared for the Gujarat board’s examinations this year.

The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Board of Education was founded in 1972 under the Gujarat Government Act of 1972.

International studies centre to up come at Aligarh Muslim University

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Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has announced setting up of a new International Studies Centre.

The centre, Faculty of International Studies, will offer various courses related to international relations, geo-strategy and key foreign languages.

The University is expected to collaborate with other reputed national and international institutions for providing quality academic content in the field of international studies.

The Centre would have separate departments for foreign languages, regional studies as well as for strategic and security studies.

In the era of globalisation, the Centre aims to play a pivotal role in understanding and promoting issues of national interests in context of international relations.

Aligarh Muslim University was established in 1920, and evolved out of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College) which was set up in 1877 by the great visionary and social reformer, Sir Syed Ahmad khan.

Govt to set up National Skill Development Agency (NSDA)

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The Union Cabinet has approved to constitute an autonomous body called the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) by subsuming the Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development (PMNCSD), the National Skill Development Coordination Board (NSDCB) and the Office of the Adviser to the PM on Skill Development. The NSDA will be located in the Ministry of Finance.

The NSDA will coordinate and harmonise the skill development efforts of the Government and the private sector to achieve the skilling targets of the 12th Plan and beyond; anchor and operationalise the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) and be the nodal agency for Sector Skills Councils and endeavour to bridge the social, regional, gender and economic divides in skilling. It will also be empowered to raise extra budgetary resources. The Central Ministries and NSDC will continue to implement schemes in their remit.

The NSDA is expected to provide the much needed single point focus to ensure that skilling quality and standards meet sector specific requirements benchmarked to international standards. Such an initiative will boost employability of youth in India.

The proposal to set up the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) was first considered by the Cabinet in its meeting held on 31st January 2013 and it was referred to a Group of Ministers (GoM) to review all aspects.

Maha Govt to set-up nursing and paramedical education board

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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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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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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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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.

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