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 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.
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.
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.
'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.
It was reported that decision has been takenfor creating more seats for girls at the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) and reserve it for single girl child in M.Phil courses. Earlier, the university created an extra seat in graduate and postgraduate professional courses and reserved it for girls who were the only child of their parents. HPU Vice-Chancellor Sunil Kumar Gupta reported that the objective of reserving the seat for the girls is to check the social evil of female foeticide. As per the 2001 Census, the sex ratio in major states ranged from 861 in Haryana to 1,058 in Kerala. Himachal Pradesh recorded 968 females per 1,000 males.
Nitin Nohria before taking over as the tenth dean of the Harvard Business School on July 1, will be hosting a conference on imagining the future of leadership with his colleagues Rakesh Khurana and Scott Snook. In lines with his thoughts, most of the community of business education providers in America are focusing on innovation and leardership around the world. Ajit Rangnekar, Dean of the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, mentioned that Prof Nohria is taking charge at Harvard at a stage when people are questioning the very role of management education. Innovation is the keyword with which Nitin Nohria is to take charge of the Dean at Harward and lead it to path of further success.
Recently, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal made an announcement to introduce an innovative scheme to spread elementary education using Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools. The new scheme will be similar to the existing ICT scheme in higher education. It was reported that this scheme is to address the needs of teachers and help students to study on their own. The scheme is to focus on the development of e-contents that is to be used by students at the primary and the upper priamry level in schools for learning purposes. This will take care of the unavailability of teachers to a great extent. Additionally, separate modules would be developed for assessment and evaluation of students. Teachers' training will be a component under the proposed scheme.
It was recently reported that IIT directors are contemplating to set up a virtual university, in order to spread accross IT education to more students. MS Ananth, IIT-Madras Director, mentioned that the initiative is an attempt to make quality education available to more students. The proposal of the same has been accepted as a part of the National Mission of Education through ICT (NMEICT) the details are yet to be worked out and the plan would be rolled out over two years.
It was also reported that already 240 courses had been designed by the IITs and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. More than 1,000 courses are to be developed during the second phase. The Ministry of Human Resources Development has allotted INR 4,600 crore for three years till March 2012 for NMEICT, the mission under which course content is being developed and virtual labs will be credited. BSNL has been asked to provide the necessary bandwidth to ensure that no college is without connectivity.
A leading academic solution service provider, Academia Management Solutions International (AMSI), recently partnered with ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and certification authority of the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) program in the Gulf region and Iraq, to deploy the ICDL program within its schools in the GCC.
Within the scope of this partnership, ICDL is to accredit the training and testing centres, it approves of, within AMSI schools in the region, while AMSI is to include the ICDL standards within its ICT syllabus. The program will be offered to around 2,100 students ranging from grades 7 to 12 and more than 550 teachers and school staff members in different AMSI schools in Dubai alone. It is expected that around 400 students will join the program yearly. Endorsed by over 22,000 universities and colleges across the world, ICDL is also implemented by all Ministries of Education in the region as a prerequisite for employment and promotion for teaching and administration staff and part of ICT curriculum for students, ICDL is also endorsed by renowned private schools in the region, and is implemented for thousands of students on a yearly basis as part of annual summer camp.
