The Central Board of Secondary Education has introduced counselling services for Students and parents to address post exam related common problems and general queries.
This free of cost service has multiple modes of communication – telephonic counselling, interactive voice response system (IVRS) through the toll free number 18001803456, and the CBSE website.
Tele-counselling will be active between 8.00 am to midnight from May 24 to June 7. To deal with the psychological problems, psychologists will be available to talk to the students and parents.
CBSE offers Post Result Counselling Services
S Vaitheeswaran Replaces Anand Sudarshan as Manipal Education CEO
Anand Sudarshan has relinquished his role as the chief executive of Manipal Global Education Services. S. Vaitheeswaran, a former Infosys executive has taken the charge.
Vaitheeswaran was earlier vice president and unit head, hi-tech manufacturing and India business at Infosys, India’s second- largest computer services company.
Anand Sudarshan will continue his role in the company as vice-chairman and director at the Manipal board.
CBSE Class X Results Expected to Declare Today at 4 pm
Finally the wait for CBSE class X result is going to get over. With the news that CBSE results will be declared today at 4 pm the parent-teacher-student community is waiting with bated breath. The results will be declared at 4 pm on May 24. Under the CCE system, students will be assigned grades instead of marks.
The results will be available on the website www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in, and www.cbse.nic.in
Students can also get their results on their e-mail address by registering themselves on these websites. Besides, they can also get the results by dialing 011-24357276 or 011-28127030.
AICTE Approves Closure of 150 Private Colleges
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has stopped giving approval to any new college till 2014 and is treading cautiously on the issue of granting deemed university status. These institutes or colleges have not been managing to fill up their seats in different engineering and management courses during the last three to four academic sessions.
According to HRD Ministry sources, more than 200 technical institutions submitted applications for closure of courses due to various reasons, including poor admission. Of these, 143 have been permitted.
While Andhra Pradesh shut down a maximum number of 56 such institutions, 17 institutions from Uttar Pradesh were given the green signal for closure. If as many as 18 institutions in Rajasthan closed, then 13 in Gujarat, seven in Maharashtra, six each in Haryana and Punjab, four in Chhattisgarh, five each in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, two each in Tamil Nadu and Bengal, and one institution each in Uttarakhand and Bihar too were closed down.
Haryana Information Technology Official Suspended Over Map Issue
An Assistant Director of Haryana secondary school education (information technology) department has been placed under suspension for accepting incorrect and objectionable content in the EDU-BOSS software where a part of Jammu and Kashmir has been shown as not India’s in the geographical map of India.
Furthering this, a show cause notice has been served upon the management of C-DAC which has developed the software for this act of negligence, she said. The company has been asked to rectify the errors and erroneous content.
Aspire , Assam Down Town University Sign MoU for Employability Education
man Capital Management (Aspire) and Assam Down Town University (ADTU) has signed an MoU to prepare their MBA students through Aspire MBAPro and Aspire ProHire Classic, Aspire’s embedded employability products for Management Education.
Aspire, headquartered in Gurgaon, is employability education firm. ADTU, set-up in 2010 by The Down Town Group, is a multidisciplinary educational institution in the North-East Region, offering over 45 courses across engineering, management, nursing, pharmacy, allied health and hotel management to almost 2000 students from all across the North East as well as Nepal.
Both Aspire and ADTU share the vision to create global employability for students. Through this alliance, Aspire will provide ADTU MBA students with access to MBAPro and train ADTU faculty to deliver Aspire’s syllabus. MBAPro has been built with content provided by Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), the subsidiary of world’s leading Harvard University. MBAPro uses Harvard’s famed “Case Study” approach to learn the art and science of business management. ADTU will use four courses of MBAPro over the two year MBA course beginning academic year 2012-13.
Dr N N Dutta, Chancellor of Assam Down Town University said, “We take pride in joining hands with Aspire; a renowned name in employability education. Through this partnership, we will bring content, certification and faculty development from global educators to students in North East India. We are committed to developing industry-ready talent and this alliance, the first of its kind in North East India, is a big step in this direction.”
Amit Bhatia, Founder & CEO, Aspire Human Capital Management, said “We are delighted to joined hands with Assam Down Town University and are confident that we will make this partnership a resounding success, grooming ADTU MBA students for global employability. Aspire’s adoption of experiential learning, balanced hard and soft skills, learning management system, teacher training, and, global content and certification create India’s leading and hard-to-beat combination for professional MBA education.”
ITMU Launches Student and Faculty Exchange with University of Chester
With business and technology going global, education frontiers have merged across countries. The linkages between institutes and universities are proving increasingly beneficial to students as global exposure enhances their employability.
With the aim to deliver the much-needed exposure to global best education practices to its students and faculty, ITM University has recently launched student and faculty exchange programmes with University of Chester, UK.
During the recent visit of ITM University’s Governing Body Members to the University of Chester, UK, the two universities have worked out areas of mutual cooperation relating to student and faculty exchange programmes and research plans.
These exchange programmes aim at improving scientific, technological and academic co-operation through the implementation of various training programmes in field of business studies.
According to Prof Prem Vrat, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Eminence, ITM University, “At ITMU, we have always strived to establish academic cooperation with best international universities and educational institutes. It gives us immense pleasure to announce our latest association with University of Chester, UK. With its expertise in teacher training, they will be undertaking a Faculty Development Programme for ITMU faculty very soon.”
Rolling out the roadmap for the student exchange programme, Prof A K Vij, Professor of School of Management, ITM University, said, “Besides faculty development programme, our BBA and MBA students will also get benefit from this cooperation with University of Chester, UK. We have planned for a one-semester (one-year) study abroad programme at the University of Chester”. In addition a Indo UK conference, in the field of higher education is also being worked on, besides a joint research proposal on Work Based Learning in association with British Council and University of Chester.
NEC Appoints Zubair Alam as General Manager for its Enterprise Business
NEC India has announced the appointment of Zubair Alam as General Manager – Enterprise Business, NEC India Pvt. Ltd. Zubair will be responsible for leading the growth and profitability of the company by driving business management, segment strategy development, monitoring execution and inculcating a culture of operational & execution excellence within the team.
Zubair will be also responsible for providing thought leadership, setting up internal and external strategic review processes apart from scaling up existing and identifying new strategic partnerships and growth opportunities.
Zubair brings with him over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and a strong senior-level management background. His elaborate experience in managing large channel partners and OEMs will help NEC drive efficiencies for its varied verticals including enterprises, hospitality, education, retail among others.
Commenting on the appointment, Koji Oda, Managing Director, NEC India Pvt. Ltd. said,“We are glad to have Zubair on board, as he brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience by virtue of his in-depth understanding of the enterprise market. NEC has been particularly prominent in the enterprise technology space and with Zubair’s appointment, we intend to further augment our overall enterprise sales. NEC works with hundreds of customers to implement sales enablement strategies that align social collaboration with growth initiatives, improving the entire sales process and revenue performance. We continue to grow quickly, both organically and through acquisition, and we hope to leverage Zubair’s experience to double our sales in the coming years”.
Expressing his delight on the appointment, Zubair Alam, General Manager – Enterprise Business, NEC India Pvt. Ltd. said, “NEC is a global leader in the enterprise business sector and is known for delivering best in class collaboration solutions that bring together the right people with the right information at the right time. I am extremely pleased to be a part of this organization and contribute to NEC’s focused approach to deliver best in class solution for small and large enterprises. It is my endeavor to expand reach of NEC to capitalize on the growth opportunities which exist not just in metros but also tier II and tier III markets.”
AICTE devices Mechanism to Register Complaints against Colleges
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has invited stakeholders and outsiders to write to them in case of any malpractice on the part of any institution. The initiative intends to bring more accountability and transparency into technical education. This will give an option of receiving feedback and complaint through emails after it came to light that many institutions had been furnishing exaggerated information whenever the governing body sought it.
The AICTE aims to ensure that institutions function as per the norms and guidelines that they have undertaken to follow at the time of getting an approval. Often, institutions tend to find loopholes and bend the rules to their convenience. These transgressions are not brought to the AICTE’s notice until there is some major issue or disagreement between the institution and the students, staff or stakeholders.
Any complaint or grievance regarding any institution or about the visit of experts assigned with specific tasks pertaining to the institutions can be brought to the notice of the AICTE through emails at aictevigilance@gmail.com
CBSE Launches New Website for Academicians
The central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has come up with a new website. The website will have information about academic activities and other facts that body wants to share with the public and schools.
In an open letter to all affiliated schools, CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi announced that a new website (www.cbseacademic.in) has been launched owing to a constant demand from various stakeholders within India and abroad.
Similarly, the CTET (Central Teacher Eligibility Test) tab will be a one-stop destination for information on question papers of CTET for the previous year, CTET bulletin and schedule for examination, results of CTET 2012 and various advertisement notices. It also has details on structure, content and syllabus of CTET exam, important information at a glance etc.
The new website will offer all necessary information that teachers, students and parents would require. It will include details about the board curriculum, teachers training, textbooks etc, all available at the click of a button.
Mr. Joshi said that the CBSE is in the midst of innovation in disseminating its policies and implementing new programmes but in the past years the board’s scope of academic activities has increased manifold due to which the website was being launched.
He described the website as a platform which will provide insight not only into the academic activities but also objectives, policy initiatives, programs, information, materials and activities, which otherwise might not be easily accessible to all.
