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Childrens Council of the City at Dubai

Children's Council of the City was launched on Sunday by the Dubai Municipality in cooperation with Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA). The council is to have 26 members.

This council has been formulated to look out for the welfare of children like safe passages, playgrounds, provisions for physical and knowledge development and care for special needs children. The council will also educate children on maintaining cleanliness, protecting public properties and architectural heritage, reducing environmental pollution, among others.

Dikshit appreciates government schools’ efforts

Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely recently, appreciated noticable improvement and overall performance of the government schools in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams, complimenting it as a joint effort of the board, hard working teachers and sincere students.

Ensuring that learning becomes a joyful experience imparted in a friendly atmosphere that will lead to all-round development of the children, the chief minister stressed on the non-scholastic pattern of education too. According to Lovely, 63 government schools achieved 100 % results against 50 schools last year. In 2005, only 18 schools achieved 100 % results. Moreover, 400government schools achieved 90 % and above results this year against 355 schools last year.


Dell Education Cloud out now

Customised curriculum which can create an engaging education learning environment will now be available to teachers and students because of Dell. Intel and Dell, have partnered and announced the availability of an end-to-end cloud-based learning management platform that creates engaging educational learning environments. As the new hosting provider for Moodlerooms, a managed, open-source learning management system services provider, Dell continues to provide administrators, teachers and students access to technology that enables 21st century learning, as a press release tells.

Dell's Education Cloud platform, powered by Intel processors, delivers a dynamically scalable infrastructure to securely host enterprise-class applications and digital content solutions for K12 and Higher-Ed.

Becta to close, says Government

Recently, it was reported that the government agency for promoting the use of technology in education, BECTA, will be closing down as part of cost cutting. During an address by Chancellor George Osborne and Treasury minister David Laws outside the Treasury, it was announced that total cuts of UK

Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 launched in India, allows multiple students to share one PC

IT adoption in the Indian education sector continues to be hampered by issues of accessibility, affordability, and relevance: today students in less than 8 % of government schools have access to computers. A solution that multiplies the power of one PC several fold

Students of M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, develop Automatic Cooking Machine (SMOOK)

A committed team of four Final Year Mechanical Engineering students of the M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), Bangalore, under the guidance of Dr. S V Prakash, Asst. Professor have designed and developed an Automatic Cooking Machine which automatically cooks the required dish (like Bisi Bele Baath, Upma, etc) without any human effort. This machine known an 'SMOOK' was showcased by the four students who designed the same

EDUCOMP forays into Management Education

Educomp Raffles Higher Education Limited, India's leading education provider today announced its foray into the realm of Management Education by announcing its Dual Masters program in PGPM and M. Com.The two years course aims at providing the students a great platform to specialize in Marketing, Finance and Design Management. PGPM and M.Com is a unique 2 years dual masters Program that enables its students to pursue the course in India with an option of doing a semester in RCDC Australia or Singapore. After the successful accomplishment of the course the students would be awarded with a PGPM degree from Raffles Millennium International, and M. Com from RCDC Australia.

The course provides a remarkable opportunity to the students to develop their management skills. The course is based on International Curriculum. The top notch high quality Indian / International faculty members at Raffles seek to endow the students with an adequate amount of corporate exposure by: visits to Corporate Houses, training the students to harness managerial soft skills, the key requirement in any business environment Undertaking projects / arranging discussions on International case studies. The course would also provide the students with a Professional Certificate Course from Oracle/ Microsoft and SAP. To be able to apply for this program, candidates should be fresh graduates from any stream. Engineering graduates and graduates with work experience who aspire to undertake management studies are also eligible to apply for the course. The course is also open to the PG students who are keen to do a management course.

eAdmissions at Orissa, with college going high tech

With the colleges in Orissa all set to go high-tech with the introduction of an online e-admission system at the Plus-III level in around 53 colleges by the Department of Higher Education in the state, admissions are to go online. Higher Education Secretary Madhusudan Padhi announced the launch of the Student Academic Management System (SAMS) for degree classes

The colleges that are using the new admission procedure are spread across 28 districts. The districts Nuapada and Malkanagiri have been excluded from the system as government degree colleges are yet to be established in Orissa. The validated data will then be uploaded onto the central server and the selection would be done by an application software that has been designed and developed on the basis of the pre-defined selection principles.


Youth and School dropouts to receive training from Premier engineering institutes

The National Institutes of Technology (NIT), India's premier engineering and technology education centres, is to provide skill development training to school dropouts and unemployed youth. It was reported that schools will be set up by NIT to provide primary education to children.

A Vocational Training and Skill Development Centre (VTSDC) was launched at the Agartala NIT recently by Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. It was reported that primary education schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will begin from this academic session. The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and the Central Board of Workers Education have collaborated to set up the first VTSDC.


Locating under privileged talent in Punjab by Super 30

'Super 30' fame Ramanujan School of Mathematics (RSM), that helps poor but academically bright students from Bihar villages to enter IITs, has partnered with US-based Bhai Jaitajee Foundation (BJF) to provide an opportunity to poor children in Punjab to become a part of their programme. For the first time, Super 30 has moved out of Bihar and is organizing an entrance test for Punjab students on June 5, the last date of applying for which is May 25. Anand Kumar, Founder of RSM, reported that RSM is committed to ensure that equal opportunity is provided to Punjab students on merit basis. He mentioned that in addition to Bihar, tests are being conducted in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Jharkhand. Any student of Class 11 or 12 (non-medical) or those who have already passed Class 12 (in 2009 and 2010), with parent's income not more than INR 200,000 per annum can sit for this test.

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