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Shiv Nadar University set up in Greater Noida

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The Shiv Nadar Foundation has established a university in Greater Noida to offer undergraduate, postgraduate and professional degrees across a number of disciplines.The Government of Uttar Pradesh has enacted the necessary legislation for the establishment of the Shiv Nadar University in the State. TSR Subramanian, Trustee Shiv Nadar Foundation said, “Uttar Pradesh has an extremely progressive approach towards education and we are thankful for the support of the state government which has approved our proposal to establish the Shiv Nadar University. The Foundation is committed to setting up an institution bench-marked to truly global standards, which will offer Indian as well as foreign students a first-class research driven and interdisciplinary educational experience. Apart from the students it will benefit directly, it will also contribute to the development of Uttar Pradesh by enhancing its position as an education hub.” Welcoming these developments, Shiv Nadar, Founder, HCL, Chairman, HCL Technologies and the Shiv Nadar Foundation, said, “While India can be justifiably proud of having a robust education infrastructure, it has not uniformly kept in tune with the current Indian and global needs in higher education. The progressive outlook of Uttar Pradesh has enabled us to set up a University with a multidisciplinary and research led character to address many of these issues. We are delighted with the long association and deep roots we have within the State, which also happens to be HCL's birthplace”. The Shiv Nadar Foundation also announces the appointment of Dr. Nikhil Sinha, as the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Shiv Nadar University. According to Dr. Nikhil Sinha, the founding Vice-Chancellor of the University, “We have already begun the process of recruiting top class talent in both faculty and administrators for the University. Our goal is to recruit exceptional faculty from India and around the world by offering them competitive benefits, opportunities and resources for research, the best and brightest students to teach and a commitment to academic freedom. Students will have the opportunity to be taught by outstanding faculty, to participate in research and experiential learning programs, to enhance their degree programs with international educational experiences and live and learn in a campus with world class infrastructure and facilities”.

Rural Development Through e-Learning

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Rural Development Through e-Learning

The Andhra Pradesh Academy of Rural Development (APARD) has initiated an e-learning model to deliver its courses on rural development to officials at district and state level, elected representatives of Panchayati Raj and Farmers

More than 70 percent of India’s population lives in rural areas. Educating people in rural areas is essential for substantial development and rural economic competitiveness of our country and challenging at the same time as issues of equity, quality and access remain areas of concern. However, ICT in education is fast emerging as a solution for transforming education and percolating learning to remote rural areas.

For rural empowerment, it is mandatory to empower those who are appointed as the agents to bring change to the rural areas.  Following the wind of change, Andhra Pradesh adopted e-learning for rural empowerment.

The Andhra Pradesh Academy of Rural Development (APARD) is the apex training institute in the Andhra for capacity building of rural development officers and Panchayat Raj officials. The institute, consistently focuses on research to offer high quality consulting services in rural development, has initiated an e- learning project and a number of e-learning products have developed for various target groups for continuous learning.

Highlighting the importance of ICT for capacity building of rural development officers, Phani Kumar, Former Commissioner, APARD said, “In Andhra Pradesh, we have about 2.61 lakh elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions. There are another two lakh of mates and field assistants working for NREGP. We can deliver face to face training to them once a year in a cascade mode for about three to four days. If we have to deliver training for more days, then it has to be only using IT and relevant androgogy,”

APARD reached out to vulnerable and hard to reach communities, managing projects in sectors that include community development, natural resource management, environment and disaster management, women empowerment and children development, land administration, social empowerment and equity.

Solution

To accomplish the task of addressing such a diversified stake holders (literate, semi literate and illiterates), APARD developed its own Learning Management System (LMS). “We have used Moodles as the LMS. For the semi literate, we have used books in the comic book format like Amar Chitra Katha, Phantom or Tarzan. For the illiterate; it was completely through audiovisuals.”

APARD wikis were formed for collaborative learning. The difference between the teacher and the taught will be reduced, if not eliminated. WEB 2.0 technologies enabled them to depart from traditional androgogy.  PR comprehensive helpline consists of a traditional helpline using a BSNL phone line, and USHAHIDI technologies have been incorporated. People can lodge their complaint through phone, email, SMS or register on the website. As Google maps are a part of the USHAHIDI system in use, APARD also know the location of the complainant. “We have encouraged our instructors also to use the helpline for clearing the doubts of participants if the instructors do not know the answers themselves. We have used social networking sites primarily to hold the instructors, field officers and interested members of the public together in a learning community. A lot of bonding has taken place between them,” added Kumar

APARD has also taken the route of offline training with manuals, illustrated books, CBTs etc. For online tools like WBT (web based tutorials,) wikis, and ebooks and educative movies on Youtube are being used. Content posting on the web has saved from the trouble running out of print while training. APARD’s LMS site is called Knowledge Commons.

On the acceptance of the training he commented, “It is really amazing to see how willingly and easily people adapted themselves to new ways of capacity building. Computer and telecommunication penetration, above all, mobile penetration in rural areas has been responsible for this acceptance of new technologies. Mobile phones have taught them how to download caller tunes, ring tones and upload pictures, etc.”

Multimedia content helped this project as is easy to develop multimedia content and transfer it to any location. Kumar said that APARD have copied content from their CBTs onto SD and micro SD cards and gave them to participants to use them in their mobiles at their leisure. “It is much more fun to watch a video or listen to a podcast than to read a look,” Said Kumar

Phani Kumar“Computer and telecommunication penetration, above all, mobile penetration in rural areas has been responsible for the acceptance of new technologies”

Phani Kumar
Former Commissioner, APARD

APARD collaborated with HCL in creating and deploying e-Learning courses on rural development. The courses were designed considering the low literacy rates of the rural development as well as its implementation in hard to reach village areas of Andhra Pradesh.

Monitoring and assessment

Firstly, APARD has monitored the use of this content through our machinery. Then the third party assessment was subjected by Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), and National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD). This project’s main deliverable is bringing about an acceptable change in the mindset of participants regarding self paced electronic learning. I think we have achieved that, by and large.

APARD organised a workshop to build a collaborative learning community in October, 2010 with the selected group of officers to build a community of learners. “The October 10 workshop was organised with intent to make APARD, a learning organization. We wanted to develop champions of this cause.”

ICT and multimedia enabled APARD delivering credible, stimulating and relevant training to the diversified target audience. E-learning enables one to gain subject knowledge anytime and anywhere without any geographical barriers and empowers learners through access to a wide range of learning resources both online and offline.

Bid Adieu to Vulnerabilities

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e-Learning in K-12 education, college education, competitive or professional courses have many security challenges.There is a pressing need for solution providers to address these issues

By Pragya Gupta, digital LEARNING Bureau

E-Learning has been realised as one of the biggest tools in the education reform strategies. ICT in education has taken various shapes with the changing time from one sided learning tool to social learning. Today’s Learning 2.0 is out of the conventional e-learning systems based on instructional packets using internet technologies, however, new e-learning emphasis on the use of social platforms like blog, wikis, podcasts and virtual worlds.

It is becoming more and more popular as universities strive to cut costs and reach larger students who are adopting e-learning solutions. Considering the huge costs involved in creating and maintaining courses, security has not yet been considered as an important issue.

With the increasing popularity and penetration of e-learning solutions, emerging security risks are making systems vulnerable. Protecting digital content from copying, printing and distribution should become an integral part of content generation, especially when relying on revenue generation for that work. Protection of both the information and the tools are of equal importance. There are number of issues that can create nuisance among practitioners like Secrecy which is one of the key issues. They need to be ensured that objects are strictly accessible to the authorised person and the person they are not granted access to information must not see or modify data or programmes. New grade based examination system has given the need of non-repudiation. It is mandatory to keep track on whenever grades of students are changed and it must be possible to reliably trace who has performed the modification and also deny the person with unauthorised access.

e-Learning in K-12 education, college education, competitive or professional courses have many security challenges and there is no single solution, which can address those challenges largely.

Sharing solutions, Rana Gupta, Safenet says, “Earlier there were many touch points in education at the backend, inviting paper leaks and information leaks but now only authorised users have access to particular information and data modification. However, the management is important. There are rising threats related to IP, content and applications security for which we offer right management products called Safenet Right Management (SRM) products to manage rights for e-learning. It helps in encrypt the content which is accessible by those who have token to decrypt that can be in the shape of hardware, software or a combination.

The youth today is very active on social networking as they use this platform to keep themselves abreast with information and stay in touch with friends, it thus opens up a good hunting ground for Cyber Criminals. According to the Amit Nath, Country Manager India and SAARC, Trend Micro, “Cyber criminals misuse the credibility and popularity of such sites for their own benefits. They could play with users’ personal information in order to commit ID theft. For example: recently, cyber criminals used Twitter as a technique to lure users into clicking a malicious link. Since Twitter is a trusted source, users May think the email they received is legitimate.”

He further suggested that students thereby should realise the significance of the kind of information they are uploading on the web. Personal information such as date of birth, email, job and marital status should not be shared on the Internet as criminals can access such valuable information to steal the identity of an individual.

It is also observed that there is a significant increase in traffic to different community blogs or portals. The criminals also have become quite active on these sites. It is also important for users of these community sites to be wary of messages received, even if supposedly sent from friends. With some crafty social engineering, unsuspecting users May visit the first of the fake pages, where they discover they cannot view their video and are told to download an updated version of Adobe Flash Player or another plug-in or codec. A second fake page informs users that the video they were trying to view cannot be shown, making users think nothing has occurred when, in fact, downloading the supposed plug-in imported malware.

With the increasing threats, for secure computing and adequate trust and confidence in the electronic transactions, Department of Information Technology, Government of India has come up with the National Cyber Security policy’s draft and invited stake holders’ response. The draft proposed that the children and small and home users on the internet for criminal, special campaigns are required to promote an acceptable and safe use of information technology. This combines the knowledge of the needs of protection while understanding the power of information technology. In addition, campaign May also be directed to raise the awareness among the parents about the means of helping children to go online safely.

Awareness is an important tool for creating secure practices among students and educators. In order to create awareness, Business Software Alliance (BSA) has started B4U Surf campaign where BSA and its partners aim to provide educators, parents and students, information and educational resources to help them understand the dangers that exist online for safe computer usage. BSA is a non-profit association dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world. ‘B4U Surf’ campaign focuses at spreading awareness about cyber wellness including cyber-safety and cyber-ethics among the youth, aged 10- 12 year old, tion of security is not up to the mark. She further suggested that Intellectual Property should be included in course curriculum of computer science to make students learn new wave of cyber safety and ethics.
Along with awareness, best security practices and mechanism is mandatory. “It is important for institutions and universities to opt for an enterprise protection mechanism to shield the systems used by their students from any cyber threats. Our Enterprise Protection Strategy
combines multiple layers of products and services for intelligent, comprehensive protection against known and unknown threats,” added Nath  At the education level, security is equally crucial when we are relying on ICT at a great level .

Business News: May 2011

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Microsoft Office 365 Public Beta available in India

Microsoft has announced the public beta of Microsoft Office 365, the company's next generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes, in India. Office 365 was introduced in limited beta last year, bringing together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service. The public beta allows millions of people in India and across the world to try Office 365 for the first time. Globally, more than 70 per cent of the organisations that signed up for the limited beta were small businesses with fewer than 25 employees.

Aruba Wireless Solutions introduced in IIT

Aruba Networks, the global leader in distributed enterprise networks has announced the successful deployment of 'Aruba Wireless Solution' in the academic section and workshops in one of the highly renowned institutions of India- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Prior to approaching Aruba Networks, IIT Delhi functioned on a wired network, which started to pose as a challenge when it came to safety and cost effectiveness. Aruba Networks provided the institution with a centralized Wireless LAN solution, a centralized management and authentication for AAA servers, which aimed to deliver stability, performance, security and features like Adaptive Radio Management (ARM). “Mobility is the keyword nowadays, as majority of the people have mobile gadgets that need to connect to the Internet through WLAN,” says Shalendra Singh, Country Manager India, Aruba Networks.

P&G's Shiksha to build 20+ schools all over India

Procter & Gamble's signature CSR Program “Shiksha” has come up with more schools all over India after it was launched a few days back. Shiksha has, so far, impacted lives of 150,000 children till 2010, aims to take number to 200,000 in 2011. By this initiative P&G has given its consumers a simple yet powerful way to participate in building India's educational future. Every time a consumer buys P&G products in the month of April, May and June, Shiksha contributes a portion of the proceeds towards children's education. Now in its seventh year, Shiksha is back with an even stronger commitment – to take its current impact of 150,000 children to the 200,000 mark. In 2010, Shiksha took initiative in building over 20 schools all across India, supported 100+ existing schools and now aims to build at-least 20 more in the coming year.

Azim Premji Foundation partners with TISS to launch APSE

The Azim Premji Foundation has joined hands with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to set up the Azim Premji School of Education (APSE). The APSE at TISS Hyderabad will offer Degrees and continuing education programmes and conduct research in the field of education. Under the MoU, Azim Premji Foundation will provide financial support to APSE including for research, programs and infrastructure. Foundation CEO Dileep Ranjekar, who is also Azim Premji University Board of Governors member said, ''improving the quality of education must be one of India's key goals. We think this task needs organisations who have shared vision to collaborate deeply.''

Intel ICT to boost rural health care services in Abuja 

As part of its corporate social responsibility efforts, Intel Corporation has decided to launch a pilot electronic health (e-Health) programme in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to address some of the challenges that the nation is facing in healthcare. In early 2009, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Millennium Development Goals Unit (FCTMDGU) health officials and Intel Corporation began discussing ways that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) could be used to improve health and healthcare delivery in rural areas. According to the Business Development Manager, Intel Nigeria, David Ibhawoh, the company observed that a large percentage of the people in the country do not have access to health and also where there were any they lacked the specialist, especially dermatologists. Intel with 80 per cent of the world's market for microprocessors, the brains of personal computers, he said, decided to take healthcare to the communities through mobile health (m-Health) and telemedicine that eventually gave birth to the Mailafiya Health Programme.

Corporate News: May 2011

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QDE launches vocational courses in financial study

Quantum Dynamics Education, an institute of life skills, has introduced short-term vocational courses on financial study that will help people understand and upgrade their fundamentals of investment and wealth management in an interesting and engaging way. Spanning across diverse range of subjects elucidating fundamental concepts on smart investing in Stock Markets, Financial Instruments, Real Estate, Gold and Equities, the nouveau courses are created using the vast experience of experts at Quantum Dynamics Education.

Pearson’s new approach to business education

Textbook learning, with the help of Pearson and Languagelab.com, will be taken to the next level of 3D experience besides interactivity and socialsing. Market Leader Live transforms the case studies from the bestselling Market Leader Business English series. It provides students around the world with a unique opportunity to use English in the actual situations they are preparing for, allowing them to practice and learn with qualified teachers.

APMDC to educate tribals as per CSR
The Andhra Pradesh state government enterprise, AP Mineral Development Corporation  (APMDC) Ltd, has resolved to spend 20 per cent of the amount realised from M/s. Orient Cements towards higher education of tribals in Utnoor agency area of Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. Orient Cements is MDC’s joint venture company that extracts limestone in the agency area of Adilabad. Even as a debate rages in the country on finalising the quantum of mining profits to be shared towards corporate social responsibility, a state government enterprise has taken the lead by deciding to spend 20 per cent of the profits towards higher education of tribals in Adilabad. Official sources said the joint venture company had paid Rs 3
crore as royalty to stat  government and the net profit of the company was around Rs 3 crore. “An amount of Rs 60 lakh has been earmarked to cater to the needs of higher education among tribals in the agency area. The Utnoor Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) project officer has been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring higher education to tribals in the area. We have finalised the guidelines of the policy regarding spending 20 per cent of profits in consultation with the tribal welfare commissioner,” said Praveen Prakash, MD, APMDC.priority attention.”

National News: May 2011

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Gandhian non-violence course in Vidyapith

A course on Gandhian non-violence has been launched by Gujarat Vidyapith to cater to international participants who have been trying to understand his philosophy and looking towards institutes in India to get a formal training in Gandhian non-violence. According to the Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith, Dr Sudarshan Iyengar, a course of this kind has been launched after a gap of 13 years; the last batch was in 1998. Gandhian non-violence has always influenced people across the globe. This course is one step forward in spreading it more systematically. The course will focus specifically on the non-violence aspect rather than covering general aspects of Gandhian philosophy, which was taught in earlier batches. According to the registrar of Vidyapith, Rajendra Khimani, this free four-month course is meant only for international students and it will commence on September
15, 2011.

Indian educationists to modify learning processes

For an accurate assessment of the current learning methods, education experts from Indian syllabus-based CBSE schools in the GNU Compiler Connection and India are taking initiatives to ensure that students clearly understand core concepts while learning. Recently a discussion was led by GEMS Education, a leading international education company, and the India-based Educational Initiatives (EI), an internationally renowned organisation in the field of child psychology and student assessment methods. Research by Educational Initiatives shows that while children today respond to rote-based questions relatively well, they fail to answer unfamiliar or application-based questions due to unclear core concepts.

Chandigarh schools bid adieu to blackboards

All the laboratories of Chandigarh schools will be digitised and have latest technological tools to aid in teaching English, Hindi and Mathematics. To implement the project, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan has roped in the Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh. Multimedia labs in schools will be equipped with 16 computers, 15 for the students and one for the teacher. To make them familiar with this innovative way of teaching, all teachers of these seven schools are being imparted training. Initially, the multimedia labs will come up at seven government schools. Once the project is implemented successfully, all schools will boast of multimedia labs. The lab for training at the Regional Institute has 31 computers, hi-tech software and an LCD projector, giving the teachers a feeling of a virtual classroom.

Karnataka Janapada Academy to be country's first folk varsity

Karnataka Janapada Academy, to be set up in Haveri district, is going to be the country's first folk varsity. “The varsity will be spread on an area of 560 acre,” B S Channabasappa, Chairman of the Karnataka Janapada Academy said. Addressing the four-day All India Folklore Conference, he said that all necessary documents have been submitted to the state government and the process of launching the university will start in June.

He also added that the All India Folklore Conference had attracted 54 scholars from different parts of the country, including those from Jammu and Kashmir.

IGNOU to establish RCs in Bihar, Jharkhand to reform Higher Education

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is about to establish two more regional centres in Saharsa and Deaoghar. With the approval of IGNOU Vice-Chancellor Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, the University has decided to establish these two centres in Bihar and Jharkhand. According to the notification issued by U.S. Tolia, Registrar of the University, the Board of Management (BoM) at its 107th meeting held in April 2011 approved the proposal for the establishment of the Regional Centre at Saharsa, which shall cover the districts of Khagariya, Saharsa, Supaul, Madhepura, Katihar, Arariya, Kishanganj and Purnia.

Indian Education Congress 2011

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Inaugration of Indian Education Congress 2011 witnessed experts' convergence for deliberation on the regulatory issues and latest trends in the business of education

By Pragya Gupta, digital LEARNING Bureau

Some of the top policy makers, educationists and corporate houses came together at the Indian Education Congress 2011, the National Convention on the Business of Education, for interactions and knowledge sharing on various topics related to the best practices, regulatory issues and future trends in the education field. The event, which was organized by Franchise India and presented by S. Chand Group with KPMG as the knowledge partner, was focused on discovering the pulse of education business in the country.

Today, education sector in India is experiencing radical changes due to the introduction of new technologies and the globalization of education business. Commenting further, Gaurav Marya, President, Franchise India said, “The Government's education expenditure as a percentage of GDP is about 5% and the consumption trends predict that the urban Indian is spending 9% of his wallet on education while the rural consumer spends only 6%. In view of huge requirements of infrastructure and manpower in the field, even if the Government takes up the supply challenge, the time frame will exceed the youthfulness of our population. The Indian Education Congress is an initiative by Franchise India that recognizes the need to think more boldly and broadly on how to strengthen and expand our existing initiatives within the realm of the growing Indian education sector.” 

The key speakers at the Congress included Sudhir Kapur (Chairman, CII Sub-Committee on Education), Dilip Chenoy (Chairman, National Skill Development Corporation), Prof. VN Rajasekharan Pillai (Vice Chancellor, IGNOU), Barry O'Callaghan (Chairman, EMPGI), Ashok Ganguly (Former Chairman, CBSE), Rajesh Gopal (President-Education, Technopak Advisors Pvt. Ltd.), Lokesh Mehra (Director-Education, Microsoft), R. C. M. Reddy (Managing Director, IL&FS), Poonam Agarwal (Head

Grab Success with Tele-Education

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Ever since Dr APJ Abdul Kalam took up the initiative of promoting Tele-Education, IGNOU has been one of the key institutions, which relates students to success and offers them worldwide recognition through its courses

By Jaydeep Saha

India is certainly making some big time advancement in the field of education business and the evidence of the same is the launch of tele-education project. This project was recommended at the time of the visit of former president of India Dr. Abdul Kalam to Johannesburg in the month of September 2004. The Government of Mauritius had sealed a pact for the same in March 2006 with New Delhi-based Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) to introduce this project. Owing to this, the residents of Mauritius can now have access to the three centres such as tele-education, tele-medicine, and Very Very Important Person (VVIP) Node.

About 4500 students all over Africa are benefiting from tele-education. They are enrolling in the bachelor’s or master’s degree courses of the premier universities in India. The courses that can be done under this project include

MBA with Collaboration and Corporatisation

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Higher education is increasingly getting blended with corporate expertise and dedicated training insight, so that young recruits to the corporate world, and also the honchos can be groomed and updated. IGNOU is among the institutions spearheading the move in India

List of MoUs by CCETC:

Name of the Collaborator:

  • Cochin International Aviation Services Ltd., Cochin
  • Centum Learning Limited. New Delhi
  • Future learning & Development Ltd., Mumbai
  • Institute of Rail Transport, New Delhi
  • Sri Sanskar School of Etiquette & Career Development (P) Ltd. New Delhi
  • Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., Noida
  • Everonn Skill Development Ltd., Chennai
  • P N Vijay Financial Services P. Ltd, New Delhi
  • Global Talent Track, Pune          
  • Training and Advanced studies in Management & Communication Ltd. (TASMAC), Pune
  • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International School of Textile & Management, Coimbatore (Ministry of Textile)
  • Department of Personal and Training ( Training Division), New Delhi (Min.of personnel, Public Grievances and pensions)
  • Institute of Industrial Management for Safety, Health & Environment. Bhopal
  • NIIT Limited, New Delhi
  • BSE Training Institute Limited, Mumbai
  • Everonn Education Limited, Chennai
  • Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Mumbai
  • Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi

With the exhilarating Indian economy, MBA is the most demanding course in India. There are various innovative disciplines in business have sprouted out like Aviation Business Management, Network Infrastructure Management, Transportation Management, Textile Management. At the same time, collaborative (including Public Private Partnership) educational programmes are invigorating in the current scenario. The concept of corporatisation of education is not very new in foreign countries but in India it is picking up in recent years. By this corporate houses take the responsibility of providing education to their employees and also to general public.

Corporate education is the umbrella under which all the initiatives related to imparting knowledge; skill and ability are undertaken by corporate houses. Higher education is increasingly getting blended with corporate expertise and dedicated training insight, so that young recruits to the corporate world, and also the honchos can be groomed and updated. IGNOU is among the institutions spearheading the move in India.

IGNOU being the largest university in the world, it is committed towards democratising education with a goal of reaching the unreached. It invents the best possible mechanisms like collaboration and corporatisation to achieve the goal. IGNOU has entered into several collaborations to educate people in different spheres and award them certificates/degrees on successful completion of the academic programmes. The academic programmes on offer are varied and contemporary in nature. In order to fulfil the demand of corporate education, IGNOU has set up a Centre for Corporate Education, Training and Consultancy (CCETC).

Four stage Quality approach

  • Need Analysis: Assess the corporate needs and by clarifying and analysing needs, frame the objectives and prepare groundwork of the programmes.
  • Method/Process Development: Once the objectives are set, methodology is created to develop the programme with the help of university's resources. It May be organising academic programmes, training curriculum, consultancy or any research work.
  • Delivery: Based on meticulous programmes, the centre delivers quality service in the requisite form, both in ODL and face-to-face programmes.
  • Measurement: It regularly monitors to improve the standards of programme and to measure the success of the programmes.

CCETC is a unique initiative to ensure corporate excellence at workplace. The Centre has been created with the sole purpose of developing skills and knowledge in the corporate sector (both public and private sector). It facilitates industry-institution collaborations to meet the demand of skilled workforce in the country. CCETC on behalf of the university has entered into a number of MOUs with various Government and private organisations, educational institutions and research organisations.

Also currently, discussions are on with few more organisations like CSIR, NABARD etc. to offer collaborative programmes. These collaborations aim to develop, enhance knowledge and integrate with professional capabilities and practices. CCETC has an interdisciplinary approach to suit the corporate needs. The Centre provides customised curriculum development and global standards of self-learning study materials, carries out scientific evaluation, and takes multi-media approach in trans-disciplinary systems of corporate education.

Corporate education entails an educational strategy, broader than training. The centre follows a four-stage quality approach, feedback being the constant activity at every stage.

CCETC is offering more than eighty collaborative programmes at various levels like masters/bachelor/diploma/certificate. Amongst them it is offering around twenty MBA programmes in collaborative mode and also directly. Different platforms are used like physical class room, VSAT, on the job training, distance mode, e-learning for offering the programmes. To cater the demands of MBA degree as mentioned in the beginning, CCETC has taken the lead in offering MBA programmes in several areas.

Each collaboration has uniqueness and each MBA programme offered by the centre has different objectives. Almost all collaborators have come with new strategies for imparting the academic programme which in turn will produce quality graduates, who can cope up and survive in the turbulent scenarios. 

The university plays a major role in all activities of the collaboration like advertisement, admission, conduct of classes, examination and declaration of result. For all the MBA programmes, entry is very rigorous like graduate with at least 50% marks, qualifying the entrance test, group discussion and personal interview.

After the student is admitted utmost care is taken for conduct of classes, internal assessment, industry visit, and most importantly attendance in case of face to face programmes. Almost all the MBA programmes have an added advantage of developing soft skills and communication skills of the students as these two skills play a pivotal role in employability. Placement assistance is provided by almost all the companies, which is noteworthy.

Corporate education is the umbrella under which all the initiatives related to imparting knowledge, skill and ability are undertaken by corporate houses

These are some of the areas which are explored by CCETC and utilized the scope of collaboration and corporatisation to bridge the skill gap. Although the centre is at infancy stage yet it is able to move forward with the ever changing demands of corporate world. With this pace, it will certainly make IGNOU's reach wider and deeper.

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