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IIT-Kharagpur welcomes budgetary grant

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The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur on Monday welcomed the special budgetary grant of Rs.200 crore ahead of its diamond jubilee, and said the amount will be used for renovation and upgradation of the institution as also in areas like nano science research. “I presume this amount has been sanctioned following our request to the HRD (human resource development) ministry for a major grant. It will help us in renovating various old buildings of the institute which need major renovation,” said A.K. Majumdar, deputy director of IIT-Kharagpur. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the budget 2011 on Monday, announced Rs.200 crore as one-time grant to IIT-Kharagpur. “This grant will also help us in renovating and upgrading various laboratories and infusing world class modern technologies into them. It will help our students a lot. The grant will also help us in different segments of high end researches,” Majumdar told the sources. “We need modern technology in nano science area. We welcome this grant as this institution will be celebrating its diamond jubilee this year from August 2011-August 2012,” he added.

DU Institute of Life Long Learning to be decentralised

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The Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) at the Delhi University (CU) will soon be decentralized, as smaller versions of the learning centre that will be located in 12 colleges are about to be set up. The decentralization of the centre is being seen as a step that will make learning a more interactive process between the students as well as the teachers. The institute currently has only two centres, one each in the north and south campuses. The ILLL was established in the year 2007. Its main purpose is to provide additional study material and tools for students of the Delhi University. It has an online portal that includes e-content for about 12 subjects, such as e-lectures, e-quizzes, e-lessons, e-labs, etc. DU Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh said that establishing smaller versions of the ILLL in DU colleges would mean utilizing connectivity in all ways, whether it is connecting minds, or institutions. “It will be a two-way learning procedure where students will be giving their inputs on the provision of the learning material,” he said. The 12 colleges where the ILLL centres will be set up are yet to be finalized. These will be chosen on the basis of the competence of the college with respect to information and communication technology along with their ability to provide additional inputs to the institute. The chosen colleges will also be influential in involving the students in the procedure of content creation. The creation of content for several subjects requires manpower and also costs a lot of money. It had been decided that students from computer science will be involved in helping upload the e-content on the portal and will also be paid for it. The ILLL has also planned to upload content on its portals that will be for foreign students, allowing them to obtain a degree from DU online. A step in this direction that has already been taken is by the School of Open Learning that runs a pan-Africa e-network. Students from six countries in Africa can access online lectures in two certificate programmes of the university, accounting and communication skills. The students are awarded DU certificates on completion of these courses.

2 courses in computer application organized for teachers at AMU

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The Centre for Promotion of Science at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) organized two courses of “Computer Application in Teaching” for teachers from Muslim Managed Educational Institutions and “Introductory Science Course” for teachers from Deeni Madaris. Addressing the valedictory programme, chief guest of the function Prof. A.R. Kidwai emphasized that inclusion of science curricula in all the classes of Madaris, and improvement in science teaching in all the Muslim managed schools is inevitable, which would leave a long lasting impact on the generations to come. Prof. Kidwai also honored the participants with certificates of participation. The Introductory Science Course was coordinated by Dr. G.G.H.A. Shadab of the Department of Zoology, while Dr. Mohammad Tabish of the Department of Biochemistry was the course coordinator for Computer Application in Teaching. The “Introductory Science Course” was planned for the teachers of Deeni Madaris to familiarize them with physical, chemical and biological sciences and to make them realize the significance of science teaching in their institutions. The course was attended by ten participants including female teachers representing Deeni Madaris of Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The participants were provided with the opportunity to learn MS Office, MS Excel, MS Power Point, Web Browsing, Multimedia Navigation etc. The resource persons made all efforts to help the teacher participants understand and learn the essential components of computer applications in classroom teaching, data maintenance and handling exam results. Ten delegates including teachers from 24 Parganas (West Bengal), Moradabad, Bijnor and Aligarh attended the course. The participants appreciated the efforts of the centre for motivating them either to introduce science or to improve the methods of science teaching in their institutions, as per modern day requirements. Dr. M. Tabish thanked the guests, participants and resource persons of the courses.

IIM-Calcutta to boost research and upgrade lab

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The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) plans to utilize the Rs.20 crore special budgetary grant to help students do research in global finance markets and to upgrade its financial research and trading lab. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced the special grant to the IIM-C in the union budget he presented to the Lok Sabha on Monday. “The money will help us upgrade our financial research and trading laboratory into a world class facility. The fund will also help students for further research in global finance markets,” Ashok Banerjee, professor of finance and head of the lab, said on Monday. The lab was set up on November 18, 2008, to support advanced applied research in financial markets and equip finance managers with the mathematical and conceptual theories. “Lot of money is required for further research in the global finance markets. So, this money will help the students to a large extent,” Banerjee told the sources. “The grant will help us obtain important softwares and global market data. Right now this is going on a small scale. The special allocation will give a boost to our upgradation and research projects,” he said.

Education: key to longer life

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Your granny was right after all in insisting that being attentive and studying hard at school and college helped you live longer, besides fending off risks of cardiovascular disease. Education is now also being correlated with lower blood pressure (BP), decrease in alcohol consumption, smoking and weight gain, according to latest research. Researchers followed 3,890 people for 30 years from the Framingham Offspring Study, regarding their education levels, status of heart disease, the journal BMC Public Health reports. Eric Loucks from Brown University department of community health, who led the study said, “Even when adjusted for socio-economic variables, education is inversely correlated with high blood pressure…” Educated men (with more than 17 years of education) had a lower body mass index (BMI), a height to weight ratio, smoked less and drank less than men with less education, according to a Brown University statement. Similarly, educated women also smoked less, had lower BMI, but drank more than their less educated sisters (however, they still drank about half as much as the educated men). For both men and women, each extra level of academic study completed further reduced the incidence of high blood pressure.

Recruitment drive in Aligarh Muslim University

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For the first time in the history of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), its students' union organized a recruitment drive, an exercise to break away from the usual political muscle-flexing and rabble-rousing. Four MNCs — HCL, Genpact, Kotak Securities and Valiant Media Group — were invited by the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) on Saturday. Over 200 students from different departments were present, out of which 30 got on-the-spot job offers. “It is just the beginning, there is a lot yet to be done,” said AMUSU secretary Aamir Qutub, who was the convener of the drive. “By this drive, a message is being imparted to the outside world that a students' union is not only a place to politicize issues, but it is also the guardian of the students community and a body committed to their general welfare. “We will be having a grand placement fair in the next few months, and will invite over 30 companies,” he added.

Aligarh varsity film fest in March

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The University Film Club of Aligarh Muslim University will organize the 4th national film festival of short films and documentaries – “FILMSAAZ-II” – from March 8 to 10 at the Kennedy Auditorium, organizers said on Saturday. Adil Siddiqui, convener of the film club, said the film festival is one of its kind organized by any film society operating in academic institutions in India. He said the festival's main objective is to highlight the talents of budding film-makers in India. The University Film Club has been successfully organizing the event over the last four years, he added. Prominent personalities from Bollywood, including actor Irfan Khan and director Sudhir Misra will be judges at the festival, Siddiqui said. According to organizers, interested institutions and individuals can register their entries by contacting through filmsaaz11@gmail.com.

US assures ‘fair’ treatment to Indian students of sham varsity

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The US has assured that hundreds of Indian students affected by the closure of a sham US university on charges of visa fraud would be given “fair and appropriate” treatment. The US assurance came in a letter this week by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar. The Feb 22 letter said the State Department is following the case of the Indian students of the Tri Valley University (TVU) closely and working with the Department of Homeland Security and the Indian government to ensure fair and appropriate treatment to the students. “Please be assured that their interests and the interest of all Indian students in the United States would be carefully considered,” Clinton wrote, according to Shankar. “Clinton emphasized that the US is proud to host over 100,000 Indian students in the United States and hopes to increase the numbers in the years ahead,” she told reporters. Shankar had conveyed India's concerns on the issue to Clinton with details of Indian students after a telephonic conversation between Clinton and External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna early this month. Nearly 1,500 Indian students face the prospect of deportation unless they can secure admission to another school to maintain their visa status. As many as 18 Indian students were radio tagged to prevent their fleeing. Anklet monitors of 11 of the students have since been removed following the intervention of the Indian consulate in San Francisco.

India second largest source of foreign students in New Zealand

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India has emerged as the second largest source country after China for international students in New Zealand during 2010-11, according to official figures. While student visa applications from traditional markets like China, South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan and Britain have declined in the past years, Indian students continue flocking to New Zealand for higher education. The number of Indian students approved to study has increased steadily over the past five years, from around 3,700 fee-paying students in 2005-06 to over 12,000 in 2010-11, according to statistics released by Immigration New Zealand (INZ). Since 2007-08, India has been New Zealand's third largest source country after China and South Korea. As many as 9,141 student visa applications have been approved from July 2009 to February 2011, reported INZ statistics. Ramandeep Kaur, a student from India who is at present studying Graduate Diploma in Communications in New Zealand, is of the view that the country is becoming one of the popular choices of students coming in from India because of its various facets, one of them being a “peaceful” nation. Surpreet Kaur, who recently finished her business studies in New Zealand, said that encouraging students to work in groups and applying theories to real life situation are regular features of the teaching system in New Zealand. “Besides, safe society and incredible natural environment make New Zealand one of the best destinations for higher studies among Indian students,” she added.

4,000 Kerala schools to get high-speed net

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At least 4,000 Kerala schools will get access to high-speed broadband internet connectivity, thanks to a deal between the state government and the state-run BSNL. IT@School Project of the Kerala government will also provide high-speed VPN (Virtual Private Network) over broadband internet connectivity to 300 education department offices in the state. K. Anvar Sadath, executive director of IT@School Project, said the agreement will also enable unlimited data sharing without the need to avail normal internet bandwidth. “Kerala has achieved this unique landmark of high speed broadband connectivity to all schools, a feature that is unavailable in schools and colleges in any other state in the country,” said Sadath. The new VPN based broadband connectivity would be provided to 2,461 high schools, 1,236 higher secondary schools, 377 vocational higher secondary schools, 233 upper primary schools, offices of deputy directors, district education officers and assistant education officers, District Institute of Educational Technology offices and 35 block resource centres. “A 100 Mbps leased lined connection supported by a MLPS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) with 20 Mbps bandwidth would be the backbone for establishing the VPN model,” added Sadath. BSNL has provided the new VPN model of broadband connectivity at 1/5th rate of the existing market rates. The shift to VPN mode would be completed by April 2011

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