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Punjab varsity of Technology developing software for banks

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The software will ensure security of information that banks use and will be developed in accordance with the RBI guidelines

Kolkata: Chandigarh-based PEC University of Technology is developing a software to ensure security of information that banks use. The software will be developed under the guidelines stipulated by the RBI.

The project is being funded by IT major IBM India, and the PEC University is working on the technology development for the project.

“The project is aimed at protecting information related to risk assessment before any bank decides on internal policies,” Associate Coordinator of Cyber Security Research Centre at PEC University, Divya Bansal, said.

“It will be a simplified interface for banks to protect information on risk assessment and suggest solutions,” Bansal said.

Intel India Inaugurates Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science 2012

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Intel India has inaugurated the Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science 2012 (IRIS 2012), which aims to foster in students problem-solving based on research and systematic approach through science and technology.

Held at the National Bal Bhawan, New Delhi, the event was presided over by Prof M S Swaminathan Member of Parliament – an Indian geneticist, renowned as ‘the father of green revolution’, for his leading role in India’s Green Revolution, and Gregory Bryant, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Asia-Pacific.

Also present were Dr T Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology; Debjani Ghosh, Managing Director-Sales and Marketing, Intel South Asia, Ashutosh Chadha, Director-Corporate Affairs Group, Intel South Asia and officials from the Ministry of HRD, Ministry of ICT and Department of Science and Technology.

At IRIS 2012, 111 projects were selected from a total of 2036 research-based projects submitted by students from across the country. These shortlisted projects will vie for national honors across 17 categories, being evaluated on research merits. Winning projects go on to represent India at ISEF 2013 in Arizona, United States. Total prize money at ISEF 2013 is more than US$4 million in prizes and scholarships.

Commenting on the occasion, Prof M S Swaminathan said “India has a rich pool of highly creative and talented youth who are willing to go beyond the prescribed resources and explore new avenues to showcase their ideas. We are mindful of the need to encourage and empower students to research, create and do something wonderful, thus positively impacting their personal growth and the human capital of India. I am very impressed to see such exemplary work by our young minds at IRIS 2012 and congratulate the Department of Science and Technology, CII and Intel for this initiative.”

“Intel believes in the importance of math and science as key foundational elements of a successful knowledge-based economy,” said Gregory Bryant, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Asia-Pacific. “IRIS is intended to encourage young Indians to develop key research and analytic skills that will position them to be the leaders of tomorrow.”

“IRIS provides a platform that highlights the capabilities and accomplishments of Indian students as they create potentially world-changing solutions,” Bryant continued. “Winning projects will go on to compete against the world’s best, putting Indian innovation on the global stage. IRIS is a great example of Intel’s commitment to fostering India’s growth,” he concluded.

The four-day event is aimed at promoting and nurturing science and scientific research amongst young Indian innovators, recognizing and rewarding outstanding projects and providing a platform for these outstanding students to represent India at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the U.S. Intel ISEF brings together more than 1,600 high school students from 65 countries, regions, and territories to display their independent research and compete for global recognition.

Rural Management Schools Form Association

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Eight rural management schools in the country have joined hands to improve rural management. The schools together has established the National Association of Rural Management Schools (NARMS). The initiative will work to provide a thrust to development in rural management, which still lack proper facilities and infrastructure.

The eight schools under this association are Institute of Rural Management (IRM), Anand; KIIT School of Rural Management, Bhubaneshwar; XIMB; Gandhigram Rural University, Gujarat; Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies, Jabalpur; GB Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad; Institute of Health Management and Research, Jaipur; and EDI, Gandhinagar.

“Different institutions involved in offering education on rural management have their perspectives, goals, curriculum and pedagogy structured around varying objectives,” says Nikhilesh Desai, head, business development cell, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI). “The need is to standardize the structure and make rural management relevant.”

The association will work as a body that drives better rural management education and will also collaborate to offer joint programmes, host international conferences and workshops, provide scholarships and even advise and impact national policies in the area of rural management.

The association will be headquartered at Institute of Rural Management, Anand, and Dr Jeemol Unni, director of IRM will be its chairperson. Dr Dinesh Awasthi, director of EDI will be the secretary.

Delhi Schools Cleanest in the Country

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CBSE recently announced its first National School Sanitation Awards 2012. Of the 179 award winning  schools, 39 are in the National Capital Region (NCR).

According to CBSE sources, the top two schools with the cleanest campuses are Salwan Public School of Gurgaon and Kalka Public School in Delhi, each scoring 100%. In all, 887 schools participated in the contest for CBSE’s first sanitation awards and the winners will get certificates and a cash award on Wednesday from the HRD minister.

The contest was announced in 2012 and was jointly conducted by CBSE, NIESBUD (National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development) and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit under the National School Sanitation Initiative of the human resource development ministry.

Schools were categorized into five groups — green, blue, yellow, black and red — in descending order of cleanliness. The cleanest schools are the green ones, followed by blue and yellow. Of the six green certificates, three went to the schools from Delhi NCR. Schools placed in the black and red categories need to improve performance. The other schools will be awarded a sanitation certificate and cash.

Amity International, Saket, got a green certificate. “This contest has gone a long way in helping schools provide its students a more sanitary environment. Now that it has been introduced in the form of a competition, even the students have got themselves involved in the drive,” principal Rekha Ranade said.

Schools were first required to register online and rated based on data uploaded by them. “Our team visited the schools to verify the data and the jury decided the final list,” said Dr Ramesh Nair, GIZ-CBSE school sanitation consultant.

TAPMI Wins Best B-School Award

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 TAPMI has won award for the Best B-school -Management at the recently concluded 20th Dewang Mehta Business School Awards. The awards were held in association with Business School Affaire and Hindustan Unilever ltd.
TAPMI also received awards under other categories at the same event. Prof. Raghunath Rudran was awarded Best Professor in Operations Management. TAPMI’s Placement Brochure was adjudged the Best Placement Brochure.
TAPMI was established in 1980 and commenced the 2 year fully residential PGDM Program equivalent to MBA in 1984. It is an autonomous Institute known for its Outcome Based Curriculum/ Pedagogy.  TAPMI has been consistently ranked among the top 1 % of the B-Schools in India numbering around 4000. Only in April 2012, AACSB- International accredited the program while in October this year, CRISIL has graded TAPMI with A*** at National and State (Karnataka) level.

Google to Hold India Education Summit in Dec

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Google, for the first time in India is conducting a workshop for educators on using various education apps. The workshop will be held in collaboration with InOpen, an IIT Bombay start-up.

The ‘Google Education India Summit’ will be a two-day event that will focus on deploying, integrating and using Google Apps for Education to promote student learning and achievement in both K-12 and higher education.

Events feature Google Certified Teachers and representatives from Google’s Apps for Education team. The summit will be organized at American School of Bombay, Mumbai on December 1 and 2.

The summit includes two keynote presentations from respected Googlers and other noted Educators.

The summit will be two full days of informative breakouts, cutting-edge demonstrations, and hands-on workshops.

The presenters will be conducting sessions on Deployment & Management of cloud apps for education. Some of the familiar ones are Google Docs.

Commenting on the association, Rupesh Kumar Shah, CEO and Co-Founder, InOpen Technologies said, ‘they had been talking with the Edtech team and Google about the possibility of hosting such a conference in India as they see a lot of potential for the use of Google Apps in school.’

“The conference can be seen as an amazing opportunity to network with renowned educationalist from around the globe. We, as an organization, have been promoting Google Apps through our books, trainings and summer camps,” Shah said.

“We have conducted sessions on cloud computing, where we present demos on how we can collaborate in real time from distant locations using Google Docs. We do see a lot of potential in setting up classrooms powered by Google Apps and we see this conference adding as a giant step in that direction,” Shah added.

According to the Edtech team at Google, already 1.5 lakh businesses in India are using Google Apps and now the focus is to target schools.

The focus is to deploy, integrate and use Google Apps for Education to promote student learning and achievement in both K-12 and higher education.

Ireland Plans Special Scholarship for Indian Students

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New Delhi: Ireland plans to offer “special scholarship” for Indian students, Minister for Education and Skills of Ireland Ciaran Cannon said.

The Irish minister visiting India with a delegation of 16 universities also wanted its students to come to India.

India, Brazil and China are our three priority countries for Ireland’s international scholarships, he said.

“We want very strong education ties with India. We not only want Indian students to come to Ireland but we also want Irish students to come to India.

“In 2013 we will be offering 22 scholarships. These will be extremely valuable: full fee waiver and Rs 700,000 stipend for one year.

“Last year, 15 scholarships were awarded to Indian students, more than to any other country,” he said.

Cannon, with a team of representatives from different Irish universities, is visiting New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, organising education fairs for students.

CBSE Issued Show Cause Notices to 31 Schools

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued show cause notices to 31 schools this year on complaints related to non-fulfilment of land norms, lack of infrastructure, non-payment of salary, charging of capitation fee and donation and other issues.

Minister of State in the HRD Ministry Shashi Tharoor said this in Rajya Sabha in response to a question.

According to the information provided by Tharoor, over the last three years show cause notices had been issue to 59 schools, including 31 in 2012. Of these, the affiliation of nine schools was withdrawn while six others were downgraded.

Advisories were issued to 44 schools.

In response to another question, Tharoor said the CBSE had directed all schools to develop their own Web sites having comprehensive information about the facilities and other details.

All Karnataka Varsities to Come Under a Single Act

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If all the state universities come under one Act, the state government will have a say in the appointment of Vice-Chancellors to open universities, RGUHS and VTU

Bangalore: A panel of experts has recommended amendments to the Karnataka State Universities (KSU) Act, 2000 to bring all the state universities under one Act.

As of now, only traditional universities come under the KSU Act, the rest have their own.

The recommendations will be submitted to Higher Education Minister CT Ravi for tabling it in the next Assembly Session scheduled to begin from December 5.

There are many issues which need to be amended in the existing Act, a panel member said. There are already two reports before the Higher Education Department, submitted by committees framed by the government.

One was headed by former Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor NR Shetty and another by former MLC and Professor K Narahari.

One of the major recommendations is to bring all the state universities under one Act. As of now, only traditional universities come under the KSU Act, the rest have their own.

Currently there are 12 Acts, including the KSU Act, which govern various universities in the state.

They are: Kannada University Act, 1991 for Kannada University; Karnataka Open University Act, 2002 for Karnataka Open University; VTU Act, 1994 for Visvesvaraya Technological University; RGUHS Act, 1994 for Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences; KVAFSU Act, 2004 for Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University; Karnataka Sanskrit University Act, 2009 for Karnataka Sanskrit University; Karnataka University of Agricultural Sciences Act, 2009 for Agriculture University; Karnataka University of Horticulture Sciences Act, 2009 for Horticulture University; Karnataka State Dr Gangubai Hangal Music and Performing Arts University Act, 2009 for Music University; Karnataka State Law University Act, 2009 for Law University and Karnataka State Janapada University Act, 2011 for Janapada University.

If all the state universities come under one Act, the state government will have a say in the appointment of Vice-Chancellors to open universities, RGUHS and VTU.

Foundation Stone of Kalpana Chawla Medical College Laid

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Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda laid the foundation stone of Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College in Karnal. The Rs. 650-crore super-specialty college would have a 500-bed hospital, an OPD, maternity ward, emergency care, nursing college, auditorium, animal house and other facilities. The state government has provided Rs 105 crore in the current financial year to the medical college. Spread over 43 acres, the college is expected to be ready in 2 years. The college will offer 100 MBBS seats.

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