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Kovair Announces the ALM Studio for Applications Development

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Kovair announced that it has brought all the key point applications for an ALM-SDLC implementation in a single package under a single data repository called the ALM Studio. These include the Requirements Management, Test Management, Defect/Issue Management, Release Management, Risk Management and Project Management. This is a fully configured Applications Suite with best practices work flows for Requirements review and approval, test planning, development test execution and defects resolution. Additionally, Kovair's flexible and configurable work flow and the configurable application entities allow the users to configure it for their specific needs irrespective of the development methodology they are following whether it be the traditional Waterfall, Iterative or Agile.

With Kovair's proven Omnibus Bidirectional Integration Middleware, the ALM Studio has been integrated for all the popular development IDEs like Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio and the Rational Application Developer allowing the developers to continue to work in their familiar environments and yet have complete access to all the artifacts for Requirements, Test Cases and Defects from the ALM Studio. With Kovair's further integrations with its Omnibus for Configuration Management tools like Subversion, Clearcase, Perforce and TFS, developers can trace their source code to requirements and defects providing end to end traceability. For testing, the testers can build test scripts in tools like the HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), the Rational Functional Tester (RFT) and execute them automatically from the Test Lab in the Kovair ALM Studio. Any other test automation tools can also be integrated with the Kovair Test Lab through the Omnibus.

For Project Management; task management, time management, resource analysis and allocation, what if analysis, Gant charts and Dashboard capabilities are all built into the ALM Studio. The ALM Studio comes with multiple types of integrated reporting and dashboards for key project metrics and status

SIIA Releases Trends Report on K-12 and Postsecondary Education Technology

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An announcement was made by the Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) reagrding the release of its most recent report on the K-12 and postsecondary education technology markets

Market driven school system in Britain, a possibility

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The Conservative-Liberal government has started processing fast tracking of an Academies Bill through Parliament. Together with an Education and Children's Bill in the autumn, the new arrangements will lay the basis for a market-driven, competitive system of schools, free from Local Authority control and increasingly run by the private sector. This kind of system fore-communicates a severe deterioration in teachers' pay and conditions and the creation of profoundly unequal education for Britain's children.

The Bill, which will turn into law this summer, is to allow a planned 500 secondary and 1,700 primary schools to apply for academy status for September and leave Local Authority control. For the first time, primary schools will be able to apply to become academies. Also, allowed would be all all schools judged 'outstanding' by Ofsted, the government inspectorate, to apply directly to the Education Secretary for 'academy status'. They will also be free from routine Ofsted inspections. Exempted from normal rules of public procurement and operating as private concerns, the academies outsourcing contracts must be advertised and subject to competitive bidding. They are also exempt from freedom of information legislation.

The Academies Bill, additionally, is to allow schools to become 'Free Schools' to be run by outside providers, along the lines of the growing private school network in Sweden. This step of turning schools in to academies and introducing Free Schools will lead to a network of elite institutions in which access to a good education will be based on selection, overwhelmingly using the criteria of social class and the ability to pay. The academies are required to be specifically tailored to the requirements of business and their sponsors.

Saskatchewan, Canada scouting for Indian educational ties

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Exploration of Indian varsities for research collaborations in several fields including sustainable development and nuclear energy research is underway by Canadian province of Saskatchewan, mentioned Rob Norris, Minister of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour of Saskatchewan. Rob Norris is currently touring India and under Norris, is being lead a team of educational institutes' representatives. Several educational institutes including IIT-Madras, University of Madras, SRM University amongst others have already been visited. The Minister and his delegation have already met 20 educational players in an academic round table at the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi.

Queensland Kids to get a kick start with massive investment in education

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$9.5 billion education and training budget this year has been detailed-out by the Bligh Government. This is a massive investment that implies more kindergartens, sooner, and extra teachers and teacher's aides on the education frontline. Education and Training Minister Geoff Wilson mentioned the investment amounted to almost a quarter of the entire State Budget.

In February this year the Government released the Flying Start Green Paper to prepare the Queensland (Australia) education system for the future. Wilson mentioned that the budget has been designed to support delivery of many proposals including commitment to fund up to 240 extra kindergarten services. Key investment initiatives include $25.8 million will be allocated to the Literacy and Numeracy Action Plan in 2010-11 to build the reading, writing and numeracy skills of students, particularly in the primary school years; $19 .5 million will be provided under the second year of the $43.5 million three-year Science Spark program to improve science teaching; $14.1 million for an additional 5,000 teacher aide hours per week under the second year of the Government's $43 million three-year commitment to an additional 15,000 hours a week of teacher aide time in primary schools.

New eTracking of admissions at Jamia

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A new online tracking system has been launched by Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University, on June 14, 2010, in order to equip students to get information regarding the status of their applications, allotted test centres and interview dates. Simi Malhotra, a university spokesperson, reported that JMI is the first university in India to have introduced an online system for students to track their admission status on the internet, just by entering their roll numbers. It was further reported that the university had received around 29,000 applications for admission into the B.Tech course, which has only 350 seats. The online system has been developed by the FTK Centre for Information Technology.

Boost to performance of Bionic devices through New Bioplastic

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New type of conductive bioplastics has been fashioned by a young researcher, that is to boost the performance of bionic devices, electronic devices and mechanical parts that assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, such as the cochlear ear and the proposed bionic eye. Rylie Green, Biomedical Engineer, University of New South Wales (UNSW) explained that this plastic will enable reach to smaller devices that utilise safer smaller currents and encourage nerve interactions. At present, the electrodes they use are made from metals such as platinum and iridium.

Conductive plastics or polymers are an alternative to metals. They have rough surfaces which encourage the attachment of cells, meaning they offer potential for improved performance and longevity when implanted in the body as electrodes. Additionally, the highly textured polymer surface can pass electrical current to cells more efficiently than smooth metals.

Mobiles to track child’s school progress

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Now elders, especially parents can track progress of their children at school and also receive regular updates and circulars through a new device. On June 15, 2010 Pinnacle Teleservices launched R-Fi, a device that will enable parents to get regular information and updates about their school-going kids on their mobile phones, along with other relevant information from the school like notices and circulars. The service charges for the same range from INR 600 to INR1,000 per year.

Abhinav Bansal, Regional Head (north) of Pinnacle Teleservices described the device as a bridge between the parents and educational institutes in the city. For testing the device implementation with students, six schools all over India have been given this device. Two schools in the capital city of Delhi, Vishal Bharati PublicSchool and Jain Bharati Model School, have started using it.

Chandigarh Class 11 admissions to go digital

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Now students from various government schools, seeking admission into Class XI, can now submit their forms at the five schools selected by the education department, UT. Candidates can opt for 10 schools of their choice on the form that would be available on the website, chdeducation.gov.in, till June 14. For the first time, such effort has been made whereby the government schools would be offering online forms that could be submitted with INR 100 as fees. Candidates can visit government senior secondary schools situated in sectors 10, 23,32, 37 and Modern housing complex in Manimajra to submit forms and fees, mentioned Chanchal Singh, district education officer, UT. Helpline and counsellors will be deployed at the Government Model Senior Secondary School in Sector 10 from June 14 onwards. But the forms have to be submitted by hand at any of the selected schools. The last date for submission is June 23.

Interactyx expands eLearning Software

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Recently, an announcement was made of partnership between Interactyx Limited and Udutu Online Learning Systems Inc. in order to combine two award winning services into one great social eLearning software offering. TOPYX is an affordable eLearning software as a service (SaaS) solution with integrated social learning, mobile learning and eCommerce functionality; fulfilling the modern eLearning needs for any size business, academic institution, or association. The myUdutu course authoring tool makes it easy and affordable for anyone, whether a department head at a large corporation, professor, teacher or a small business, to create, deliver and manage effective online training and learning.

By using TOPYX with the embedded myUdutu course authoring tool, TOPYX/Udutu's Web based training solution can be wholly online or a blended learning course by providing the online software to create interactive training, simulations, and online case studies and assessments.

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