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Girls outshine boys at Panjab University convocation

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Girls clearly outnumbered boys at the 60th annual convocation function at Panjab University (PU) here on Monday. Out of the 479 students who were awarded degrees, 351 were girls. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni was the chief guest at the convocation, while Punjab Governor and Chandigarh administrator Shivraj Patil presided over the function. “It is a big occasion and I congratulate all the students. We are demanding 33 percent reservation for women in parliament and in Vidhan Sabha, but seeing the good number of girls outshining boys here, I think that we should demand 50 percent reservation,” Soni said while addressing the gathering. Over 11,000 students, 70 percent of them girls, study in around 70 research and teaching departments of PU. Its campus is spread over 553 acres in Sectors 14 and 25 here. “I am very happy to see large number of female students getting degrees during this convocation. I have also seen the same trend in other universities where maximum number of gold medallists are always girls,” Patil said in his convocation address. “This is a big challenge for boys and they should take this in a sporting feeling and make up their minds to do well in the next exams,” he added. PU is also the alma mater and former workplace of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The university authorities had also planned to confer an honorary doctorate of law degree on former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, and award a doctorate of literature degree to noted author-journalist Khushwant Singh. But they could not make it to the convocation ceremony. “We would honour them later at a special convocation function to be held at the residence of Khushwant Singh in New Delhi,” PU vice-chancellor R.C. Sobti said

Eligibility test for law graduates on March 6

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Around 23,000 fresh law graduates will appear in a mandatory open book written exam on March 6 for the first time, the result of which will determine whether they would be eligible to practice as lawyers in Indian courts. The exam will be conducted by the Bar Council of India (BCI), the regulator for legal profession and education in the country, in 10 languages at 27 centres across the country. The candidates will start receiving their admit cards for the exam from February 15 onwards, according to the BCI. The entry-level exam were earlier scheduled for December 5 last, but was postponed following objections from some state bar councils and law ministry. The exam will be of three hours and thirty minutes duration with mainly multiple choice questions to be answered by ticking the correct one. The candidates will also be allowed to use reference books during the exam. A minimum of 40% marks to be scored by the candidates to qualify this exam, but there is no limitation on number of chances for a candidate to pass this test, which will be held twice a year from this year onwards. The BCI has made it clear that only the fresh law graduates, that is the students graduating in law during the academic session 2009-10 and later, need to pass the exam. And Law graduates who got their degrees before the 2009-10 academic session but for some reason did not register with the BCI do not need to appear in the exam. BCI sources said the move to hold the exam followed a direction from the Supreme Court in December 2009, which the law ministry included it in the blueprint for legal reforms.

Panjab University gets own community radio

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In a bid to highlight developmental issues and the problems of the people, the Panjab University (PU) here on Sunday got its own “Jyotirgamaya” community radio.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni inaugurated the radio station at the School of Communication Studies building on the university campus. “Considering the reach of radio and its affordability, this medium of mass communication holds great potential.

I would see (to it) that the existing coverage range of PU radio (which is six km) is allowed to be extended as soon as possible,” Soni told reporters. “It is the endeavour of my ministry to promote community radio stations as these are the best bonding agents and they involve the local population,” she added.

The community radio would impart information related to education, health, environment, society, cultural and would also be used for making announcements specific to the university. This is the second community radio in Chandigarh. The first is being run by a leading private school. Soni also said that there was need for self-regulation on general entertainment channels and the government was close to formulating a framework under which this could be made possible.

India raises issue of sham US varsity student

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Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has sought US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's personal intervention to ensure that the interests of over 1,500 Indian students of a sham California University are protected and their future is not jeopardized. Krishna raised the plight of the Indian students of the dubious Tri Valley University (TVU) in Pleasanton, California that was closed down last month on charges of selling student visas, in a conversation with Clinton over the weekend, the Indian embassy here said. Some 1,555 students of TVU, 90 percent of them from India, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation unless they can get admission in another institution to retain their student visa status. The embassy said it and the various Indian consulates general will continue to be in regular contact with the students and the concerned US authorities with a view to facilitating the resolution of issues. Indian Ambassador Meera Shankar, who had earlier raised the issue with the Director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Morton to stress that “innocent students” should not suffer, is expected to meet Clinton next week as a follow up to Krishna's conversation. Shankar was then assured that the US authorities would handle the issue “with good judgment and common sense”. India has also raised the issue with the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. In response to Indian efforts, ICE had put up guidelines on Jan 28 and Feb 8 for the Tri-Valley students on their website at http://www.ice.gov/sevis/tri-valley-110118.htm Broadly, the affected students have been advised to call the Student Exchange Visitors Programme (SEVP) and provide their specific details. The website also indicates that SEVP will provide options to the students, including the option to depart from the United States without an otherwise possibly applicable bar to re-admission in the future. According to ICE, students who contact SEVP representatives will be advised that they have three options: (i) Report to ICE to be processed for voluntary departure from the United States. This option allows them to leave under their own power on a day of their choosing, to remain in the United States without fear of being arrested while waiting to depart, and keeps their immigration history clean. (ii) Depart the United States on their own; (iii) File for re-instatement with US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Japanese channel to film Super 30

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A team from a Japanese television channel has arrived in Patna to make a documentary on Anand Kumar, who founded Bihar's free coaching centre Super 30. Yuta Amma from Japan's Kansai Telecasting Corporation, told that Anand Kumar is regarded as “a role model in Japan”. Kumar's Super 30 coaching centre has helped many students from underprivileged sections of the society to enter the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Amma is in Patna with his crew to make a special documentary on Kumar and his Super 30. “It is amazing to find underprivileged children sweating it out under expert guidance for the IIT admission. This is a great inspiration for millions of others who want to do it but are unable due to poverty,” he added. Amma interacted with students, their families as well as Kumar and his family. He is the latest in a long list of Japanese media professionals who visited Patna to make documentaries on the widely know Super 30 and its founder. Earlier, Yoichi Itoh, chief economist of STB Research Institute has made such a film for NHK Channel. After that, NHK's producer Emiko Amagawa came here in 2007 to make an hour-long documentary on Kumar and his school. Then came Japan's Amazon TV for yet another film on Super 30. Japan's famous actress and Miss Japan Norika Fujiware came to Patna to make another film for TV Man Union. “I am happy that my small initiative has put Bihar on the global educational map. This will inspire me to do even better to make Bihar and India proud,” Anand Kumar said. Kumar, who started the Ramanujam School of Mathematics in 1992, founded the Super 30 in 2002. In the last eight years, the novel initiative has helped 212 students clear the IIT entrance test. During the last three years, all the 30 students of the institute made it to the IITs, drawing worldwide attention. Most of the successful candidates have been from the most underprivileged sections of society. They are provided with free food, lodging and free coaching. The students have to pass a competitive test to get into Super 30 and then commit themselves to a year of 16-hour study each day, Kumar said.

IGNOU, National Council of Rural Institutes sign MoU

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Council of Rural Institutes (NCRI), Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), to launch an Internship/Skill Development Certificate Programme, involving 'hands-on-experience' for the students. The MoU was signed by IGNOU Registrar (Admin) U.S. Tolia and NCRI Member Secretary Upamanyu Basu in the presence of IGNOU Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Department of Higher Education Secretary Vibha Puri Das and Director of the Student Service Centre at IGNOU Dr. Jayshree Kurup. “IGNOU has various programmes, which have practical components. Internships have now been made mandatory in programmes like Master's in Rural Management, which are modular in nature. Keeping this aspect in mind, we thought to collaborate with the NCRI, giving students an opportunity for six to eight weeks to do an internship, to be provided by NCRI itself,” said Prof Pillai. Elaborating upon the responsibilities of the National Council of Rural Institutes, NCRI Chairman Dr. S.V. Prabhat said, “NCRI will identify the rural institutes/NGOs, evaluate their strengths (infrastructure, faculty, past experience, etc.) and come up with a list of them for adoption in order to establish learning/study/practicum centers for the implementation of short-term internship/skill-centric/application-oriented training modules.” While lauding the efforts of NCRI and IGNOU, Das said, “This programme will lend value to those who already have it. In short, it will be more like giving back to the community.” According to the MoU, “The programme has been designed to provide a value addition to the existing academic programmes or to promote skills of the youth with the objective of improving the potential for self employment and greater employability in the job market.”

Arab students in Delhi rejoice with Egyptian people

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As Egypt celebrated the end of President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade-long rule Friday night, students from the Arab world studying here rejoiced with them. Glued to the internet for the latest update until now, they are now keeping a close watch on what happens next. Most students said their happiness is more for the people of Egypt whose voice was finally heard than over the end of Mubarak's rule. Mubarak stepped down on Friday following an uprising that began on January 25 in Cairo's Tahrir Square and quickly spread across the country. The 18 days of vehement protests ended Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule. Raed Kassab from Palestine, studying architecture at the Jamia Milia Islamia, said, “My first reaction to the news was happiness…and I am very happy not so much for Mubarak stepping down as for the people of Egypt because they finally got what they wanted”. “I am one of those people from Gaza who has had to face a lot of problem in Egypt. I had got a scholarship to study here in Jamia but I arrived nine months late because the border was closed. Even the treatment at the airport is very bad, so I hope that now things will change,” Kassab told the sources. Echoing similar sentiments, Ibrahim Abu Ghail – a Palestinian who is pursuing his Ph.D. in computer sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) – said he hopes that the situation in Egypt will change for the better after the end of Mubarak's rule. “When you leave Gaza in Palestine and come to Egypt, you are not free to roam around. You just can't stay in peace…I hope that now when I go to Gaza or am coming back to India, I will be free to walk around in Egypt,” Ghail said. “Palestine hopes that the various issues will be solved. We support peace but we also like our dignity,” he added. For those like Saif Jewad from Iraq, the “victory” of the Egyptian people is good news for the entire Arab world. “I am very happy because it's the end of a dictatorship. I am happy that the Arab world is more free and it's the beginning of a new phase,” Jewad told the sources. A Ph.D. student of linguistics in the JNU, Jewad, however, added that he is now closely monitoring the news to see what happens next. “I am keeping a close watch on the news on the internet to know what happens next. I am expecting more such things to happen, maybe in Jordan, Syria,” he said. Ali Alwasouf from Syria – a fourth year doctorate student in the JNU – said he has been watching the events unfold live on internet. “I have been watching the events live 24 hours for the past two days. When the protests started, I knew that no dictator will go off easily but I was betting on the army. If the army remained neutral, as in Tunisia, then there was a chance for success,” Alwasouf said. “Now we are speculating – who's next. Some people say Algeria, I think it could be Jordan but it will not be against the king, but the government. Syria is different from Egypt. People strongly subscribe to the foreign policy of the regime in Syria against Israel and the United States,” he added. Speculations are also rife about what will happen in Egypt next – after the euphoria has died down. “In Egypt, the most dangerous part has started now. I doubt the elections will be democratic. I tell my friends that Egypt is like a small India. The poor will get swayed to vote by money or other factors, and educated people are polarized,” Alwasouf told the sources. Similarly Kassab said, “I am worried about what will happen next in Egypt. In Iraq too, Saddam Hussain was forced to step down, but the country still has its issues”. “In fact, before Mubarak's announcement, Al-Jazeera showed interviews of different Egyptian parties and everybody said something different on what is to be done next. It shows that while there was unity in protesting, the thought process of the people is not the same,” he added.

AMU organizes developmental conference on power, energy

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The Indian government is taking serious steps to produce solar and wind energy as a substitute and to preserve the environment ,'' said Sohail Akhtar, Director in Ministry of New and Renewable Energy at the inaugural ceremony of a two-day national conference on Power, Instrumentation, Energy and Control at Aligarh Muslim University(AMU). He said India is also planning to produce more bio-fuel and electro vehicles to save the petrol for other purposes. He said that 35% petrol was used for transportation. Sohail Akhtar pointed out that Ministry of Renewable Energy is involved in producing alternative sources of fuel for the development of this great nation. Department of Electrical Engineering Chairman Prof. Mohibullah said in his welcome address that this department is among the oldest engineering departments in the country. It had been established back in 1935 and since then had been providing quality education. The department has a strong research base and it has been organizing various seminars, symposiums and refresher courses. He hoped that the deliberations of the two-day conference will be a step forward in meeting out the challenges of power crisis and pollution control in this country across the globe. Faculty of Engineering and Technology Dean S.M.A. Rizvi said that electrical energy forms the backbone of the structure of modern society. However, at present the Indian energy sector is faced with myriad challenges which need to be addressed by the intelligentsia. Principal of Z.H. College of Engineering Ekram Husain said that the AMU Department of Electrical Engineering is playing a significant role in the enhancement of knowledge in view of the changed world scenario. Prof. Mukhtar Ahmad, Chairman of the Conference highlighted the aim of the conference and said that it would provide a forum to network, to share and discuss new researches and developments in emerging technological areas. He said that the Conference has received more than hundred papers from various academic institutions spread all over the country. Organizing secretary of the conference, Mohd. Rehan said that the Department of Electrical Engineering has sanctioned Rs.1.13 crore under the FIST scheme of DST for strengthening the Power, Electronics, Drivers and Instrumentation laboratories. 1 AMU, Akhtar, Electrical Engineering, Mohibullah
6347 UNESCO preparing standards for integrating ICT into teaching 9 3 0 2006-11-09 00:00:00.000 0 southasia.oneworld.net http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/142162/1/ A set of ‘ICT Competency Standards for Teachers’ will be soon available that have been under preparation by UNESCO as part of a long-term project to enhance the professional development of teachers.

A set of 'ICT Competency Standards for Teachers' will be soon available that have been under preparation by UNESCO as part of a long-term project to enhance the professional development of teachers.

It will define the standard ICT skills required by teachers, and will combine methods for improving ICT skills with emergent views in pedagogy, curriculum and school organisation. An extensive work has been done by UNESCO and project partners, including Microsoft, Intel and Cisco Systems to make such standards. The project aims to improve teacher practice, teachers' classroom activities, to foster higher quality education, to produce a better informed citizens and higher quality workforce that will be able to advance a country's economic and social development.

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‘Sir Syed lay down foundation of modern education in India’

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Vice Chancellor of Manglayatan University Satish Chandra Jain said that Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was a great visionary who laid down the foundation of modern education in India. He was addressing a symposium on “Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Vision & Mission” organized by Sir Syed Awareness Forum at Muktakash Manch of Aligarh Exhibition at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Guest of honor Vivek Bansal, an alumnus of AMU and member of the Legislative Council pointed out that the organizers have proved themselves to be true “Aligarhians” by organizing such an informative symposium on Sir Syed. Addressing the programme, Public Relations Officer at AMU, Dr. Rahat Abrar said that Sir Syed organized a drama in the Aligarh Exhibition to raise funds for MAO College and this is a testimony to his painstaking efforts put forth in the promotion of education. Earlier DR. Shakeel Samdani, President of Sir Syed Awareness Forum and Coordinator of the General Education Centre at AMU, elaborated the history of the Aligarh Movement and reminded people that Sir Syed established a school before he embarked upon the dream of MAO College, which in 1920 was transformed into Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Samdani emphasized that AMU is fully committed to secularism from the day of its inception and its doors are always open for everyone. During the symposium, a collection of poems of Dr. Aftab Anjum was released and the Sir Syed Awareness Award was bestowed upon Mohd. Yaqub Ansari while the title of Senior Corporate was given to Irshad Hussain. A resolution was also passed demanding construction of a gate and a hall in the Aligarh Exhibition premises after Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

IGNOU launches interview preparation platform for job aspirants

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), along with VMock, has launched a Virtual Platform for enhancing employability of its job aspiring population, spread across national and international borders. The Finishing School initiative, spearheaded by the Campus Placement Cell (CPC) and eGyankosh on the IGNOU FlexiLearn platform, aims to enable learners prepare and practice for job interviews at their own place and pace. The service was launched during the Higher Education Summit in New Delhi, organized by the Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), with IGNOU as its Knowledge Partner. “The IGNOU-VMock online platform enables candidates to practice for job interviews and improve via feedback. The strategy enables learners to know themselves, create their own video persona, answer career specific mock questions and take feedback from friends, alumni and IGNOU mentors already available on Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks. It is a boon for all job seekers since it effectively takes care of their Last-Mile to Employability” said Vice Chancellor Prof V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, while launching the service. The platform is available to all interested candidates across disciplines at Rs.1,100 (Rs.1,000 as access fee plus Rs100 as registration fee). A special discount – 50 percent for IGNOU learners and Rs.600 for IGNOU alumni – is being offered for a limited period only. VMock is connected to almost all major social networks. All that learners require to get started is a computer with webcam and 128kbps internet connection. They can register themselves online through the IGNOU FlexiLearn portal. “The objective behind this enabling service is to empower learners to practice, rehearse, retake, repeat and continuously improve and refine their interview skills till they are confident to excel. Once registered, they can continue to practice for a validity period of six months,” said Dr Neeta Kapai, Director, Campus Placement Cell.

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