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Manipal Launches first elearning solution for Engineering Colleges
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. With inputs from subject-matter experts from well-known engineering colleges, the solution creates a rich learning environment where students can grasp concepts easily through content rich in multimedia elements such as animations, videos, 2D/3D images, PPTs etc. With several other features that empower teachers to create their own content or integrate rich content available in the public domain, the solution also provides a platform for collaborative content enhancement for teachers and students. 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.
ICAI partners with USE for knowledge
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.
Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to Japanese, US researchers
Richard F Heck of the US and Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki of Japan have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it was announced in Stockholm recently. Development of a chemical tool used for creating advanced chemicals, 'palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis' helped the three win the prize. Among its uses are carbon-based molecules that are as complex as those created by nature. The chemistry prize is the third Nobel Prize to be announced this year.
DU may see first women VC
Principal, Lady Shri Ram College, Meenakshi Gopinath may be the first woman Vice Chancellor of Delhi University. The five-year term as VC for Deepak Pental, at Delhi University. It is being speculated that Meenakshi Gopinath will take over this month. It's not official yet. As a peace activist, Gopinath over the years has been actively working for deepening people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan.
Presidency University gets its first Vice Chancellor
Amita Chattopadhyay, the renowned professor of philosophy is all set to be the first vice chancellor of the Presidency University. Chattopadhyay is an alumnus of the Presidency College and a retired professor of the Jadhavpur University. It was during early part of this year that the West Bengal assembly passed the bill to upgrade the 192-year-old Presidency College into university.
The institution, with around 2,500 students, still churns out talent, but there has been a lot of criticism about its falling standards due to politics in teacher recruitment and frequent student unrest. Founded in 1817 as Hindu College, the institution was christened Presidency College in 1855.
Symbiosis to set up a campus in Noida, UP
The Symbiosis Institute has been permitted by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to open an off-site campus in Noida for teaching law. A review committee of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had earlier listed Symbiosis among the 44 deemed universities which had been given a three year deadline by the ministry to fulfill the criteria to be tagged a deemed university.
Another list of 44 varsities consisted of deemed universities that did not qualify the criteria. Symbiosis had earlier been allowed to carry out its current activities without being deemed a university. The committee had given Symbiosis a zero while judging whether it qualified the criterion for being called a university. UGC Chairperson Sukhdeo Thorat, recently mentioned that the decision has been taken in concensus with the suggestions of the HRD ministry and stated that Symbiosis had been in the list of universities that had been given three years to improve instead of the list containing unfit deemed universities.
AP to have over INR 120 crore under the scholarship scheme
A huge of over INR 120 crore was released by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment as central assistance to the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the centrally sponsored scheme of Post-Matric Scholarship to students belonging to the Scheduled Castes. INR 120,41,64,000 have been released in total to state under the centrally sponsored scheme.
The anticipated expenditure during the year 2010-11 under this scheme is about INR 578 crore out of which, the committed liability of the State of Andhra Pradesh is about INR 258 crore. With the current release of INR120.41 crore to the state, Andhra Pradesh has got the entire due amount for the current financial year for implementation of the post matric scholarship scheme. The objective of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to the Scheduled Caste students studying at post matriculation or post-secondary stage to enable them to complete their education.
TBIS essay competition on a roll
Tata group recently launched the fifth edition of Tata Building India School Essay Competition, at national level. The contest has been commenced in eight labguages and is expected to receive entries from nearly 3 million students, from 5,200 schools across 150 city level competitions. Two new languages, Oriya and Kannada, are being included for the first time this year, adding to the already existing English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil and Marathi editions. The theme for this year's competition is based on reducing poverty in the country and young minds will be encouraged to express their thoughts on the solutions to this issue.
Starting from the key metro cities, this year's competition will be carried out across the country. This year, for the first time, young Tata Brands like Croma and Gateway Hotels are partnering with the essay competition. The Tata Building India School Essay Competition will be a two-phase activity in the participating schools. The first phase consists of the screening of an inspirational film as stimulus for the young minds, to get them thinking and to bring a greater focus to the subject. Following the screenings, students will be asked to write an essay on a topic of nation building. The schoolchildren are required to write the essay only once; this is the essay that will be judged at all the three levels.Entries for the competition are invited at two levels: junior (Std VI to VIII) and senior (Std IX to XII). The awardees who win the competition at the school level will receive certificates, trophies and special Tata Building India merchandise. The city winners and the runners-up will receive video cameras / digital cameras and will be felicitated at regional award ceremonies. The national winners will receive a laptop each as grand prize.
Switzerland Establishes Global Science & Technology Outpost in India for Research Cooperation
Dr Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, Switzerland's State Secretary for Education and Research, on Ocotber 7, 2010 announced the setting up of swissnex India, the Indian unit of swissnex, a global network of science and technology outposts. swissnex is a program run by Switzerland's State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) in close cooperation with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). swissnex India will be the fifth such global centre after San Francisco, Boston, Shanghai and Singapore. It will be located in Bangalore, in the premises of the Consulate General of Switzerland, which is being set up. Swissnex India's goal is to fully leverage the potential of cooperation between Switzerland and India.
The centre's mission will be to create and maintain a dense network of contacts between universities, research institutions, industry and other organizations in India and Switzerland. It will provide a platform for Swiss and Indian organizations to connect, share knowledge and form partnerships in science, technology, culture, and innovation. swissnex India will also help structure, implement and support government-to-government bilateral research cooperation programs between Switzerland and India. The priority research areas of the current bilateral cooperation program are material sciences & nanotechnlogy, human health & medical sciences, information and communication technologies. The Indo-Swiss program of cooperation is a key component of the Swiss strategy for promoting scientific collaboration with India. Launching swissnex India, Dr Dell'Ambrogio, Switzerland's State Secretary for Education & Research, said, 'We are happy to announce the launch of swissnex India that will be located in Bangalore together with the Consulate General of Switzerland, which will also be established here shortly. swissnex India will help support and extend bilateral research co-operation between India and Switzerland, along with creating a strong network with universities, research institutions, industry and other organizations in both countries.'
