Now a Soccer School in India from the Repute of FC Barcelona

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May 18, 2012

FC Barcelona plans to start a soccer school in India. With this initiative the country is surely going to experience a new chapter of sports education in India.

FC Barcelona is one of the most prolific clubs in European football. Spanish giant FC Barcelona has announced the launch of its official football school FCBEscola in India, with the first centre slated to come up in Delhi NCR. It’s being set up in association with Conscient Football, FC Barcelona’s partner in India.

While there is no confirmation of the proposed timeline of operations, the school will certainly be in operation within this calendar year, according to a Conscient Football spokesperson.

The school will have a capacity of 300-360 players in the age group of 6-14 and will have permanent FC Barcelona staff stationed in the Capital to run the operations. While the details are being worked out, the program is expected to be based on the globally-run programs by FCBEscola, which are intensive and regular after-school programs.

CBSE Class X, XII Results on May 28th

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May 18, 2012

After much confusion and delays, it has come out that the results of the CBSE-conducted Class X and XII final exams would be declared before May 28th.

K K Chaudhury, Regional Officer CBSE, said, “The Class X and XII final examination started on March 1. Results are usually declared in May and this time, too, they will be out on or before May 28.”

He also said, “The CBSE has started the comprehensive and continuous evaluation (CCE) system so the candidates’ overall performance would also be monitored.”

Right now, the final scrutiny is going on and all anomalies would also be sorted out.

There are about 282 examination centres in the entire northeast region. About 43,000 candidates appeared for the Class XII exams and 49,000 for the Class X finals in the region.

Italian University Opts English to Attract Indian Students

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May 18, 2012

To attract students from India, a leading Italian university Politecnico di Milano, established in 1863, has decided to choose English as a medium of teaching.

Amidst increasing global competition in the higher education sector, top officials of the Politecnico di Milano, believe that if it retains Italian as its language of instruction, it risked isolation and will not be able to compete as an international institution.

As the university’s move reinforcing English as an international language sent ripples across other Italian universities, the higher education minister, Francesco Profumo, told that he hoped other leading institutions in the country would follow suit.

English has been the medium of instruction in most Indian universities since independence in 1947. Thousands of Indian students enroll in courses in universities in the US, UK and elsewhere every year, reflecting increasingly globalized nature of higher education.

Government to Review Political Science Textbooks

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May 17, 2012

The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman and present chairman of Indian Council of Social Science Research SK Thorat to review NCERT’s political science textbooks for schools.

The members of the committee are AS Narang of School of Social Sciences IGNOU, Patricia Mukhim, the Editor Shillong times and social worker, Prof MSS Pandian Chennai, teacher of social science of Sanskriti School Abha Malik and Saroj Yadav who is the Head of department of education in social science, NCERT.

As per NCERT notification, the committee will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material.

Indian Schools Adopt Cloud

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May 17, 2012

In a move to provide superior education to students with collaborative learning tools, reputed schools like Delhi Public School, American School of Bombay, KR Mangalam have adopted Microsoft Live@edu, a cloud based service. Microsoft Live@edu enables institutions in brand building, social and professional collaboration, knowledge repository that leads to career opportunities.

Microsoft Live@edu is a no-charge suite of communication and collaboration tools for students, faculty, staff and alumni that enable access to Microsoft Office Outlook Live for e-mail, Microsoft Office Live Workspace to share documents and collaborate, Windows Live Messenger for instant messaging, and Windows Live SkyDrive for 25 GB of online data storage space.

After evaluating several solutions to bring collaboration amongst the academician and administrator and finally embracing Microsoft’s cloud based email over Google. “ The cost of deploying a school wide messaging solution, which would cover over 5,017 students, 220 teachers, and 52 administrators would not have been feasible just from the sheer cost of acquisition and maintenance,” explains M.I.Hussain, Principal, DPS Mathura Road. “However, Live@edu brings the school at par with global institutions at no extra cost.”

“Alumni network plays an important role in building contact and resolving student queries about real life job environment.Live@edu has enabled our students to connect with alumni’s to share and learn from their experience. This helps them get first-hand information on the business aspect of life, thus enabling them to be job ready. With increased e-mail storage, students also get the option to keep reference material with them, at all times,” said Inder Dev Gupta, Chairman of KR Mangalam School, New Delhi.

As schools deal with and manage highly sensitive student data, managing data security and privacy becomes of foremost interest to the IT department without increasing their IT management cost and time. The American School of Bombay currently has about 1000 mailboxes, with over 50% usage. “With Live@Edu, we experienced highly dependable, highly secure world-class communications and collaboration infrastructure. By using this cross platform cloud based service, students are able to easily access and stay updated with the latest information both on and off campus,” said Mario Fishery, Sr. IT Manager (Network, Security & Systems) at the American School of Bombay.

“It is encouraging to see schools adopting and promoting a technology-enhanced environment. Microsoft Live@edu simplifies online collaboration, increases productivity with its ability to participate in online tutorials, collaborate on assignments, interacting with peers and faculty, and build lifelong relationships with their educational institution. We have a huge base of mailboxes activated across schools and colleges in the country,” said Tarun Malik, Director, Product Marketing, Microsoft India.

“Cloud adoption is gravitating schools as it allows opportunities seamlessly integrating digital lifestyle to support their academic work style. Cloud adoption is gravitating schools as it allows for possibilities of seamlessly integrating their digital lifestyle to support their academic work style. It is exciting to see students, educators and IT administrators collaborating through Live@edu to enrich the learning experience and to prepare students for future success. This gives them an edge as they enter the competitive job market,” added Malik, Director, Product Marketing, Microsoft India.

Kozhikode Registers Highest Pass Percentage in Higher Secondary Exam

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May 17, 2012

Kozhikode, a major city in the state of Kerala in southern India has clocked highest pass percentage in the state with 90.96 per cent in higher secondary examination 2012.

Of the total 26,461 students who appeared for exam, 24,068 qualified for higher studies. There has also been an increase in schools in which all the students have passed the exam. Thirteen out of the total of 167 schools registered cent per cent pass compared to four last year.

Schools of the state that have registered cent per cent pass include St Joseph Anglo Indian GHSS, JDT HSS, MM Boys HSS, Himayathul Islam HSS, SH HSS, Shri Gujarathi Vidyalaya HSS, Hi-tech Higher Secondary School, Memunda HSS, Viliappalli Calicut School for Handicapped, Kulathur Sree Narayana HSS, Vatakara, Vanereni EM HSS Feroke and Chinmaya Vidyalaya HSS, Nellikode.

In the technical school category the district registered 94.07 per cent pass with 111 out of the 118 students who appeared for the exam qualifying for higher education. Pass percentage in the open school category is 55 per cent with 6,592 students out of the 11,982 qualifying for higher education.

In the vocational higher secondary school category the district registered 83.6 per cent pass with 1,866 students emerging eligible for higher education.

Delhi Government Initiates Admission for EWS Students

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May 17, 2012

While we are reporting stories of a few schools that are not able to take EWS students in this academic year, the Delhi government has already started the process of taking EWS students.

They have started filling up the vacant seats in private schools for children belonging to EWS section into preschool and at pre primary classes.

Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said although admission of students belonging to general category came to an end on March 31, the enrolment of students under the EWS category would continue till July 31.

He said according to the provisions of Right to Education Act, admission can continue throughout the year.

“Government will ensure that each and every child belonging to EWS category gets admission in these schools,” Lovely said after a high-level meeting with top officials of his department.

Lovely said strict directives have been issued to all concerned officials for total compliance of order relating to filling up of 25 per cent EWS category seats in private schools.

The Education department has already uploaded list of vacant seats in pre school and pre primary classes under EWS category in various schools.

He directed the officials of Education Department to give an advertisement in the leading newspapers regarding school-wise vacancies under EWS category.

“These seats belonging to EWS category would be filled as per the rules and regulations of RTE Act,” he said.

Education department has received scores of complaints against private schools regarding alleged violations of mandatory reservation of 25 per cent seats for EWS category students.

ICSE and CBSE Schools Are Unable to Follow RTE Act This Year

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May 17, 2012

The Karnataka Federation of Independent Schools’ Management (KFISM) Associations, that has 284 CBSE and ICSE schools under its umbrella, has decided to leave it to the state government to suggest them if they must cancel out 25 per cent of the admissions made so far, to make way for the economically weaker section quota students under RTE.

LR Shivramegowda, President, KFISM said, “We welcome the Act, but it is highly unlikely that the member schools will be able to implement the Act this academic year. There are 132 ICSE and 152 CBSE schools under the association and all of them completed the admission process in October. We have a practical problem, and want the government to give us a solution. If the government directs us to nullify 25 per cent of our admissions, we are ready,” said LR Shivramegowda, president, KFISM.

Around 100 members of KFISM met on Wednesday to decide on the next step of the implementation of RTE. The federation also cited the SC’s judgment, stating that status quo should be maintained on the completed admissions. Shivramegowda said, “We are not seeking any legal remedy. ICSE and CBSE schools do not come under the Karnataka Education Act, so there was no question of us following the admission calendar issued by the government. If the government had notified us in time, this problem would never have occurred”.

Indian e-Learning Course Catches Students Fancy Worldwide

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May 17, 2012

Centre for Environment, Planning and Technology (CEPT) University in Ahmadabad has been receiving good responses from the students worldwide. As a recent report reveals the e-learning course offered by the university is attracting students eyeball, globally.

People who are more than 50 years old, architects, government employees, self-employed workers, private sector personnel and even learners from foreign countries are all enrolling on the e-learning program.

Course director at CEPT Professor Sejal Patel claimed around one-fifth of all participants come from nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Belgium and Sri Lanka.

Furthermore, other people are in senior positions within the state, including members of the Ministry of Urban Development, the Ahmadabad Urban Development Authority and groups such as Poverty Alleviation, he shared.

Professor Saswat Bandopadhyay, chair of CEPT’s Centre for Continuing Education has said that virtual learning environments used to be generally accessed by men. However, at present, 46 per cent of the participants are female, he stated, pointing out “the enrollment is almost in an equal ratio”.

Some of the popular course titles the academic facility provides include Urban Infrastructure Planning, Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainable Development and Environmental Impact Assessment.

Around 25 per cent of the people involved in these programs are engineers, while a further 15 per cent come from a scientific background, Professor Bandopadhyay added.

Celebrating innovation and enterprise in Digital Learning Asia 2006

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May 16, 2012

The Internet has unleashed the infinite and often bottled potentials among its users opening doors for rapid learning, human creativity, information access, and global communication. When did these possibilities actually translate into widespread public access to the Internet? It is difficult to specify a date, but one can identify a few key developments and the key actors behind those developments. In Word Matters: multicultural perspectives on information societies, the coordinators, Alain Ambrosi, Valérie Peugeot and Daniel Pimienta share the developing countries perspectives of moving to a knowledge society. In the utopian definition of an information society, access to technology will not be a barrier, nor the diversity of languages, nor capacity to adapt to new innovations and rapid turnover of the technologies. A vibrant and able community of practitioners, who have integrated the new mediums, just as we brush our teeth daily, will nurture this. All this is possible with the concept of sharing knowledge, building collaborations and creating exchanges of information and experiences in a seamless fashion, through inter-operable modes and making it possible to build on the strengths of those countries, regions or communities who are ahead of the others and quickly catching up. Asia is at the brink of such a revolution. Countries in Asia have rapidly adapted to the new world information order and are focussing on education as a key thrust to build a knowledge pool, preparing to service the global needs and responding to growth opportunities. Yet divides remain, and challenges need to be overcome. The papers in this conference special of the Digital Learning Magazine come in the week of Digital Learning Asia 2006, highlighting the essence of the discussions in the conference. The effort is not to reinvent the wheel, but learn from the mistakes of the past. For example, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong who have had major successes in the effective use of ICTs for education both for learning improvements and also education management can share their experiences with other developing countries in Asia. In Vietnam and Thailand, educational policies and processes are needed to be reformed to upscale the successful project and to coalesce these with other policies ertaining to economics, social development and poverty reduction and science technology. The Digital Learning Asia 2006 is an important effort to network and building a collective vision. It is not just an event – it’s a process of networking among people who have the experiences in the policymaking, technologists, practitioners in the NGO sector, the private sector etc. The entire ecosystem players have an opportunity to interact, learn, share and foster alliances and collaborations. And the magazine is the platform to continue these linkages for building the Knowledge capital for Asian countries.

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