A system of online submission has been introduced by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), for applications for the competitive examinations it conducts. A good number of candidates have already started applying online for the UPSC Examinations notified during 2010. This facility is an addition to the other option of submitting paper applications already available, however, the prospective candidates are encouraged to prefer online mode of applying for the UPSC Examinations. Candidates have following advantages if they apply online – one can apply in a hassle free manner at the convenience of sitting at home or at cyber cafe or any other place any time even during night hours; prompt confirmation of submitted application is received; no risk of postal delays; lower risk of rejection of one's application on account of wrong/incomplete data entry and so on.
Intel company to certify Azerbaijani teachers
Moscow is to witness a workshop, where the Azerbaijan teachers will attend training given by the Intel company. The teachers will receive training from Intel from September 27 to October 1, 2010, on issue of 'Organisation of electronic sphere 1pupil
IIJT Launches Country-wide VSAT Facility to Enable Last Mile Access to Employability Training
Currently, 25 company owned IIJT centers are VSAT enabled. IIJT is working with its existing partners to have all 250 centers VSAT enabled by December 2010. In addition VSAT classrooms are being set up in all PPP employment exchanges that Teamlease operates or proposed to operate with various state governments like Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, etc A VSAT class room can accommodate 25-40 students depending on the size of class room and there will be two such class rooms per centre.
IIJT's VSAT facility is being launched with a series of Career Seminars by real-life professionals from across various industries for the benefit job seekers and students. This is based on the research that many students make their career decisions without much research, role models or active discussion. With 93% of employment in the informal sector, these seminars create a unique opportunity for interaction with formal sector professionals for students across the country. The seminars are open to the general public, apart from IIJT students.Part biographical, part professional and part industry, these seminars will have professionals talking about their personal career journey and will give insights to students on selecting and enabling their careers in those industries.
Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, TeamLease Services emphasized on the need to fix India's people supply chain to prevent what could turn out to be a demographic disaster due to lack of right skills amongst the workforce. He said, 'This satellite training represents an important move in making geography history. The speed limit to quantity and quality in our vocational training in the long tail of India's geography of work
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Final Rules for common medical test compiled
It was reported that the Supreme Court has been informed by the central government on Friday that it had finalised the rules and regulations for all India common entrance test (CET) for post-graduate medical courses. The government also told the apex court that it had finalised the rules and regulations for undergraduate medical course. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice H.L. Gokhale that the government wanted to hold common entrance tests to have uniform standards of medical education in the country. Subramanium said the government had succeeded in evolving the consensus among private and government medical colleges on the tests.
Kapil Sibal on role of government schools in rolling out RTE
Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal, while addressing the valedictory session of the Conference of State School Education Secretaries, described the role of the Government Schools system in the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE). He explained that 93% of our children are studying in government schools.
He mentioned about a software that has been prepared to support transparent recruitment of teachers and underlined the need for a transparent teacher transfer policy, emphasising that the role of the teacher, of the school and of the government must be to ensure thateducation is child centric. The minister called upon states to come forward and implement the RTE with enthusiasm. He pointed out that the centre had allocated additional funds for the states and made the sharing pattern in a ratio on 65:35 for five years. He also called upon the States to work towards appropriate teacher qualifications and infrastructure norms as mandated by the RTE.
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Vacant seats numbering 14, 000 at Karnataka
With the last round of counseling at the engineering colleges in Karnataka getting over for this year, it has been realised that an alarming number of 8,691 seats in the private quota have been left vacant. Additionally, around 5,000 seats in the common entrance test government quota are still lying vacant. The government had announced earlier this week that a special counseling round will be held for students who have cleared their pre-university courses in the supplementary chance. Last year the number of vacant seats were 11,300. Even though there was a dip in the demand of seats in engineering colleges, around 3,500 more seats were added to them last year.
There are 15,036 seats in the private quota, out of which 8,961 seats have been left untaken. In the government quota, seats are available at subsidised fees. Even then, 5,000 seats from the 30,000 seats have remained vacant. The reason sought behind the above is that there is a huge number of sanctioned engineering colleges.
CSI Technology Outfitters launch merger of hosted VoIP in the existing Education Cloud
An announcement was made by the CSI Technology Outfitters regarding the inclusion of hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Services into the existing CSI@K12 Education Cloud. This inclusion is to bring about a cost-effective technology currently being offered for K-12 and higher education institutions. CSI Technology Outfitters is reaching out to school systems across the country by leading the VoIP charge and showing the efficiency, flexibility, and cost effectiveness of next-generation voice platforms.
The CSI@K12 Education Cloud, which already includes world class email integration in partnership with Microsoft Live@edu, web portal access, and web hosting, links together the key communication and collaboration tools that are sought after in today's education environment. Therefore, the educational institutions do not have to purchase software and hardware that have limited use, invest in technologies that are quickly outdated, or invest time in supporting these solutions, these services become highly scalable and, in return, reduce the time and complexity of deploying these services within the current technology environment. VoIP is proving to be the most cost-effective way to get a phone in every classroom. Schools are finding that the bulk of VoIP deployments can piggyback on E-Rate funding and other data infrastructure initiatives and the elimination of expensive standard service enables particularly swift return on investment.
KUSTAR collaborates with Georgia Institute of Technology for education and research
A partnership has been announced between Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), to develop cutting edge Engineering-based education and research initiatives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States of America (USA). A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at a ceremony held in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The aim of this collaboration is to establish a framework for exploring sponsored research, joint research opportunities and joint educational programmes. The two parties will explore areas in which Georgia Tech may provide assistance with short-and long-term faculty and administrative needs, and encourage exchange experiences for students and faculty.
The MoU is stipulated by a time frame of five years and is to cover the bilateral exchange of information and experience in education and research and to explore opportunities for submitting proposals for joint projects. This includes integrating content for course material, joint collaborative research projects between faculty and/or research groups, and world class lectures or seminars provided by either party.
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