One of the largest North American Microsoft Learning Partners and also one of the largest Cisco Sponsored Partners, CED Solutions, LLC will be providing a platform of technical training on Microsoft and Cisco courses for the K12 and higher educational communities throughout United States. Enabling one to gather the technical expertise required for executing proper assistance to K12 schools and staff support everywhere, the courses are to provide live Remote Classroom Training on technical classes for desktop support, network administration, telecommunications, web design, and Microsoft Office Suites.
Classes will be provided through Remote Classroom Training, and onsite. Courses will include Microsoft Office 2010, Windows 7, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010, and Web Design classes. CED Solutions is an exhibitor at the South Carolina EdTech 2010 at Myrtle Beach, SC and the GaETC Conference in Atlanta, GA. South Carolina's premier educational technology conference is designed to promote the use of educational technology to enhance student learning. The mission of EdTech 2010 is to bring educators, administrators, technology professionals, college faculty and staff, public and academic librarians, business and industry trainers, industry representatives and policy makers together to think, discuss, listen and learn the best strategies to plan for, implement, and use educational technology in our schools. Approximately 1200 K-12 and higher education teachers, administrators, technology and media specialists, business leaders, legislators and Department of Education personnel will be included in the training. CED Solutions is also a member of Mi-Training Partners, a large group of CPLS training partners throughout the United States and Canada.
developed in form of pilot paper by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE). The aim of the test is to examine the understanding of students of the five subjects rather than direct recall or memory based capabilities. The final version (two and a half hour test) papers are to be developed by January. The tests will commence in May-June 2011.
“Tutor Vista started with providing tutoring services to students in the US. K Ganesh established the company after observing the immense potential of outsourcing tutoring service to students in the US, since most parents there could not afford personalised tutoring for their children. Today, the online tutoring firm and school management venture TutorVista Global is raising Series D funding to the tune of $50 million from existing investors as well as global funds. 
A section of DRS Group, Edify Education plans to have pan-India presence through launch of 50 franchised Edify Schools, 250 Franchised Edify Kids pre-schools, and 10 company owned International schools by 2015, confirmed a company official. An investment of INR 500 crore is being considered for investment in this expansion plan of its network of schools to around 300 across India. It has combined the best teaching techniques and practices CBSE and other global orientations to provide 'international' education at an inexpensive fee. These schools will run on the 3-C philosophy-character, competence and content. The assessment technique in these schools will target to evaluate child's ability to conceptualise, process information and apply the same in a creative manner.
Venera Technologies, a service provider of digital multimedia solutions and Hughes, a global provider of broadband satellite networks announced a partnership that is to facilitate Venera to offer its Virtual Classroom platform IeraTM for delivering online education using VSAT and Internet in Tier B and C cities through HughesNet Fusion centers in the country. Hughes's usage of IeraTM will enable aspirants from small towns in India to get an access to professional education from premium institutes without migrating to big cities, as a viable education solution.
In order to disseminate comprehensive knowledge of financial markets to its members, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Stock Exchange (USE). Inclusive of the partnership is an understanding that members of ICAI will be educated by the USE through seminars, panel discussions and workshops on financial markets and corporate governance. ICAI would provide institutional support and facilitate interactions with its members wherein USE would impart relevant knowledge. The MoU has been signed for a term of 3 years and would be renewed subsequently on mutual consent. USE was launched recently with record volumes and has been the market leader since launch. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, is a statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 for the regulation of the profession of Chartered Accountants in India.
Manipal K 12 Education announced the launch of India's first digital learning solution for engineering colleges. Recently, launched India's first digital learning solution for engineering colleges, that targets to empower faculty with learning aids and objects and help them create the technology leaders of tomorrow. After establishing leadership in the K-12 segment with its digital learning solutions: DigiClass and DigitALly, that won many customers and awards. Manipal K-12 Education has extended its offerings to the engineering colleges segment. The solution entails rich digital content, a content repository, enhancement and delivery framework and hardware elements such as servers, multimedia computers, interactive projectors, UPS equipment etc. that are installed in the classroom.
10 million professional entrance exams, 130 million semester exams and 50 million Government/PSU recruitment exams: these are the number of exams that candidates appear for, in our country. Almost all of these exams are conducted in a traditional paper-pencil mode and the exam process relies solely on the signature of the candidate as a proof of identity, post facto. With the intense competition to get the right seat, the appropriate marks and the plum Government post, this process of authentication remains by far the weakest link of the paper-pencil exam process, providing an opportunity for thousands of impersonations to happen routinely. In the last year alone, a quick search on news articles of impersonation has thrown up over 125 cases that have been highlighted by the national media alone. The current process of authentication in the traditional paper-pencil mode today is to match the facial features of the candidate with the photograph on the hall (admission) ticket, and to match the signature of the candidate that is on the hall-ticket with the one that the candidate signs on the attendance sheet. While there are several drawbacks of the photograph verification (old photos, smudged prints, etc.), this photo verification process by the invigilator is not recorded anywhere at all and hence the signature becomes the sole artifact of authentication once the examination is conducted.
