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MeritTrac launches AuthenTrac

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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.

MeritTrac Research team conducted an interesting experiment recently on the effectiveness of identifying forged signatures by experienced invigilators

CDEL and Educomp reach exclusive licensing

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China Distance Education Holdings Limited ('CDEL' or the 'Company'), a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education, and Educomp Solutions ('Educomp'), India's largest education company, today announced an agreement whereby Educomp, through its Singapore subsidiary AsknLearn Pte., has granted CDEL exclusive rights to license and distribute Educomp's Smart Class, Edulearn and Wizlearn products in the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan).

Educomp's Smart Class, Edulearn and Wizlearn products provide dynamic multimedia learning, teaching and administrative content and tools aimed at improving teacher effectiveness and productivity in-class, improving academic performance of students, and effectively managing school administrative processes. The solutions are primarily aimed at the primary and secondary school markets, and will significantly bolster CDEL's primary and secondary school offering. As part of the agreement, CDEL will provide students and schools in China with access to Smart Class

Enabling Access to Education through ICT

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Education is a fundamental right for all persons. In the information society, access to knowledge and information is of vital importance to ensure that all persons are able to participate as creative and productive members of the society. The UNCRPD recognizes that persons with disabilities also have a right to education and lifelong learning. Countries around the world have recognized the importance of education and have identified universal primary education as one of the millennium goals to be achieved by them within 2015. While definitive steps are being taken to achieve and promote universal inclusive education, there are still some grey areas remaining with respect to addressing the special needs of some groups like disabled children. The World Health Organisation estimates that 70% of the world's disabled live in developing countries like India.

It is believed that barely two per cent of the 70 million disabled persons have access to education in India. This is due to a variety of reasons, including the lack of awareness amongst educational organizations and teachers, near absence of infrastructural resources and lack of training in this regard. Technological advancement in the form of assistive technologies, ubiquitous Web, multiple platforms, social networks, online libraries and digital resources, etc., have now made it possible for disabled persons to access information in accessible formats. It is therefore, important that students, teachers and educational institutions are adequately equipped to leverage the power of the Internet and ICTs to enable inclusion for persons with disabilities. In order to address these issues, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UNESCO, WIPO, Digital Empowerment Foundation, Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment and the Deafway Foundation Daisy Consortium, are organizing an international conference, EDICT2010: Enabling Access to Education through ICT in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2010. The conference which is sponsored by the Hans Foundation will look at ways in which ICTs can be harnessed to bring education to persons with disabilities.

The specific focus of the conference is to look at the various technologies, tools and practices that are necessary to bring education within the reach of all persons with disabilities as a step towards achieving inclusive education in India. This includes education at all levels- primary, secondary and higher education as well as distance and online education. Structured as a workshop, the conference will highlight existing practical and policy barriers for students and educational institutions in developing countries, showcase solutions which are presently being adopted in different countries, and point to existing knowledge resources and emerging trends in education. The format of the conference is highly engaging and is designed to enable the attendees to explore the challenges and opportunities while equipping them with the tools needed to implement ICT solutions within their organizations.

This conference is unique in so far as it is probably the first one of its kind on such a large scale in India and involves participation from a variety of stakeholders ranging from government ministries, educational institutions, disability organizations and the private sector. Some key participants are the UN organizations such as the WIPO, UNESCO, ITU and the G3ICT, the Department of Information Technology, Ministry for Human Resource and Development,the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment, Indira Gandhi Open University, National Institute of Open Schooling, the Deafway Foundation, Daisy Consortium, Microsoft and Yahoo. The various deliverables of the conference include:

1. Evolving a set of recommendations for educators on best practices

2. Publishing a White Paper which will provide a set of recommendations for policy makers on inclusive education.

3. Creating a case study database of best practices on the use of ICTs in the education for the disabled.

For more information, visit: www.edict2010.in

Smart Car Race India 2010 won by Surat Engineering Team

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In first of its kind competition, 'Smart Car Race India

Manipal Launches first elearning solution for Engineering Colleges

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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