GEMS Education adds another feather to its cap

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September 14, 2010

A global recognition has been received, in form of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 Certification for the quality of IT infrastructure, by GEMS Education, the largest kindergarten to grade 12 private school operator in the world. The ISO is the world's largest developer and publisher of international standards and is recognised as the world's leading non – governmental authority on quality standards. In order to certify GEMS Education's Infrastructure and Data Centre services, both of them were examined and audited to ensure that they adhered to a rigorous set of standards of quality, security and reliability.

ASI signs MOU with Tamil University to for e inscriptions

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September 10, 2010

In order to digitise more than a lakh of estempages, that is, copies of inscriptions in all languages, a partnership has taken place between Tamil University and the Epigraphy Branch (Mysore) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Tiruchi. The Epigraphy branch of ASI at Mysore has estempages of inscriptions that have been collected since the year 1887. However, only estempages collected till the year 1908 have been published. Now, the Tamil University will be assisting ASI in digitizing the estempages collected from the year 1909.

There are around 65,000 Tamil stamps amongst a lakh estempages, under the possession of ASI and these illuminate the history and culture of the state of Tamil Nadu. As the original inscriptions might be lost during the course of time, estempages taken from them help in knowing about the inscriptions, and hence are of immense importance and of great use for researchers.

Higher education Newsletter released

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September 10, 2010

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) released the first newsletter of the Department of Higher Education, HRD Ministry, recently. This initiative is an effort to build a communication channel between the government and public.

The easy to view and read bilingual and quarterly newsletter is essentially 'online' with limited printed copies for circulation. The inaugural issue of the newsletter has sections on main features, campus notes, exchange of ideas, vichar vimarsh, etc. All 'surfers', teachers, students, academics, administrators, management of institutions and other leadership positions, alumni and all those who wish Indian highereducation system to improve are invited to contribute to the newsletter.

Academic experts support teaching games

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September 10, 2010

In bid to support teaching games at school, the expert group at the CIHE (Council for Industry and Higher Education) has released a report asking government to get more video games industry types involved in GCSEs, A Levels and University Degrees. This will be done to curb the skills crisis affecting the UK IT and digital industries. In a new report entitled The Fuse, the group suggests that the current ICT curriculum fails to properly prepare students for a computing degree or a career in digital technology. It calls on UK developers – led by trade body TIGA – to promote student volunteer schemes through schools and universities.

Education Finance Corporation for study loans at low rate

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September 10, 2010

In an attempt to introduce loan convenience for students at higher education level, the government of India is planning to set up Education Finance Corporation which is to provide education loan at four percent to students desiring to pursue higher studies.

According to the union minister for human resource development Kapil Sibal, the Corporation will also extend easy credit to institutions desiring to start higher learning centres in the country. It was also reported that India is facing shortage of around 1.2 million teachers at elementary level itself and out of 220 million children on an average only 14 million enroll for higher education in the country. According to Sibal, these problems can be overcome through ICT mission which aims to connect 26,000 colleges and 54 universities in the country through broadband.

College exams on mobile phones

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September 10, 2010

Seshadripuram First Grade College, Yelahnka in Bangalore has taken up an extension to elaborate on its experiment of conducting students' exams on mobile phones for all the courses. Last year the college had launched a pilot project for conducting examination for some courses, whereby students were provided mobile handsets preloaded with questions with four options as answers and the students had to click the correct answer, revise it and then click the submit button.

Dr M Prakash, Principal, Seshadripuram First Grade College, Yelahnka, mentioned that effort is being taken to make evaluation and assessment paperless and speedy. According to Dr Prakash, students have to attempt 40 questions in one hour for tests while 120 questions have to be answered in three hours during exams. In order to avoid cheating, questions are jumbled and its order is different for each student. The mobile software for this initiative has been developed by Bangalore-based IPOMO (Interactive Platform On Mobile) Communications.

Lotus Valley International School and 92.7 BIG FM together on Teachers Day

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September 10, 2010

On September 8, 2010, Lotus Valley International School [LVIS] and 92.7 Big FM came together to celebrate the Teacher's Day. Delhi's famous radio jockey 'RJ Rahul' interviewed Vice Chairman of LVIS S C Arora; Principal, LVIS, Madhu Chandra and 10 other students from the school to get their views on the popular '6-9 Drive Show.' The show was largely about the experiences and bond between students and teachers. Shri Arora and Smt Chandra were heard narrating many inspiring, funny and touching moments from their teaching career in between songs dedicated exclusively to this day. They also talked about the latest practices in teaching and how can it be improved in an ever changing world of education. After the show, about 25 children from the LVIS including some teachers attended the screening of Karan Johar's latest movie 'We are Family' at Big Cinema in Connaught Place. The kids were ecstatic and were heard shouting and hooting LVIS' name in the auditorium.

On this Occasion, Smt Chandra said, 'We are blessed to have such meritorious students who have been keeping the flag of Lotus Valley flying high. More so, it is heartening to know that they respect their gurus equally. We would strive every year to further improve our academic standards and upgrade our teaching tools.' Also present was Arora, the Vice Chairman, 'I have been through this school right through its inception and I can safely say that it has reached a stage where it would only go higher. I congratulate and wish all the faculty members a very Happy Teachers Day.'

Reduction of Poverty by investment in NFE at Ghana

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September 10, 2010

At Ghana, the Ministry of Education has mentioned that Non Formal Education Division (NFED) will receive an increased budgetary allocation in the 2011 budget. Besides that, the Ministry is establishing Information, Communication Technology (ICT) centers across the country to ensure that graduates of functional literacy programmes also turn out ICT literate.

At a symposium in Accra to mark this year's International Literacy Day organized by the NFED, the deputy Minister of Education, J.S. Annan described that the aim of the above is to ensure that more non-literates and school drop-outs get enlightened in order to be innovative in their areas of trade and vocation. Other speakers stressed the need for non-literates to enroll in functional literacy.

Government experiments to provide cost effective computers

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September 10, 2010

With a slow paced project $220 One Laptop Per Child on move, and an uncertainty over the $35 laptop called Sakshat, the government is now preparing to experiment with another model

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