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BPL youth to receive soft skill training from IGNOU

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IGNOU Vice Chancellor Professor VN Rajasekharan Pillai announced training and education of youth who are Below Poverty Line (BPL) in six states of the country – UP, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. Five vocational training and educational programmes have been identified for online delivery. IGNOU has partnered with SREI Sahaj e-village Ltd., a Kolkata based company, which is implementing the CSC project in six short-listed states.

Programmes that will be introduced to these students will be certificate programmes in Computer Basics, Advanced Computing, Job Training and Interview Etiquette, along with a Diploma in Advanced Computing. The proposed programmes will be offered online from application to certification stages. The programmes will be conducted through a Common Service Centre (CSC) in each village panchayat office at the six selected states of Assam, Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar , UP and Tamil Nadu. Teachers from nearby areas are being hired to teach and guide the IGNOU students in every village panchayat.

NBQSA Awards for Local ICT talent

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National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2009, the 11th Annual NBQSA competition was announced recently by the BCS Sri Lanka section, in association with the British Computer Society (UK). NBQSA is the only national competition in Sri Lanka recognising and honouring exceptional local ICT achievements and significant technological advancements in the country. Since 1998, the NBQSA has given opportunities to individuals and organisations that have made outstanding contributions to the development of the ICT Industry in Sri Lanka, to display and benchmark their products. Over the years, the event itself has grown in recognition both locally and internationally. Today, it serves as a vessel to gain international recognition for locally developed ICT products, enabling them to successfully compete in the global market.

'This year's NBQSA specially hopes to bring some relief to the software industry in Sri Lanka, which is still fighting to overcome the impact of the global economic crisis' said Vajeendra Samanpriya, Chairman of the NBQSA Organising Committee and Member of the BCS Sri Lanka Executive Committee. This year NBQSA 2009 competition will cover 16 categories of ICT products and projects ranging from Application and Infrastructure Tools to In House Applications, with Gold, Silver and Bronze awards being presented to winners in each category. In addition, the BCS Sri Lanka section is proud to announce the addition of a new award category this year, where the best application developed using Closed Source and Open Source products would be recognised. The Tertiary category is open to students from Sri Lankan Tertiary Education Institutions. Each year, the judging panel is selected based on their ICT knowledge and experience from diverse disciplines such as IT, Engineering, Management, Accounting and Marketing. It would include persons from both the private sector and the academia, selected to ensure unbiased and objective evaluation as well as confidentiality. Samanpriya invited local ICT innovators to take part and win opportunity for international recognition through Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA), an International Awards Programme initiated to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the Digital Divide. The NBQSA events schedule commences with the launch and call for applications on the 17th of July, with the nominees' and judges' briefings to be held on 4th and 6th of August respectively and concluding with the Gala Awards Ceremony on 16th of October 2009.

National Council for Teachers Education Portal Launch by Government of India

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A portal of National Council for Teachers' Education (NCTE) was launched recently by the Government of India to ensure transparency in its working. With this portal in progress, the aspiring institutes would be enabled to submit and track the progress of their application in pipeline.

This would discourage manual handling of the matters related to the recognition of the institutes. The level of processing will now be available to the institutions on the portal itself. The website will have hyperlinks to the websites of each individual institute which will be asked to give details about their facility and faculty in the portal.

Better Learning for Students with Apple iPads

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The latest device introduced by Apple, the iPad, is mainly suppose to attract is all from the field of education. In both the sectors of K-12 and in higher education, across grades, the iPad is help in re-shaping the way in which students use technology in the classrooms.

Apple’s iPad will come in six models. Three of them will work on Wi-Fi, and three will include a 3G cell phone wireless chip. The various capacities are 16 GB, 32 GB & 64 GB. Apple has established that the iPad showcases many different features, some that the iPhone provides, others that a laptop provides, and a few unique components that the iPad will provide on its own.

There are many interesting and important features of this iPad including e-reader. For both textbooks and classic books the iPad has the ability to be the first e-reader will be widely accepted by students. Additionally, iPad as an e-reader includes e-books that will cost less compared to hard copies. Another reason that the iPad is attractive is that it brings more to the table then being a simple e-reader.

The iPad has the opportunity to become an integral part of a students day by being a new age notebook. Also, students have the option to freely write all over the page as well as utilize highlighters and drawing diagrams. It will enable students to have all of your notes, for every class in one place that weighs 1.5 lbs and is 0.5 inches thick is much more attractive to a student than traditional notebooks.

Most students in IIT from Bombay

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The maximum number of students making it to the IITs this year is from the Bombay zone, with the Maximum City also contributing two among the top ten rankers. But all-India topper Nitin Jain, from Haryana's Faridabad, gave Delhi zone the icing as the IIT-JEE results were announced on Monday. Jodhpur's Shubham Tulsiani from the Bombay zone came in second, followed by Gopi Sivakanth. The latter, from Andhra's Yeleswaram village, is also the topper among OBCs.  Mumbai earned its spot in the hall of fame as two city boys

Sibal encourages non profit indulgence of Pvt players in education

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HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, recently emphasised that the education sector would remain a not-for-profit sector, and the government will ensure that profiteering in education is not allowed, at an interactive session on 'Changing face of Indian education', organised in New delhi, by FICCI Ladies Organisation.

He said educational institutions can make profit, which has to be ploughed back to the institution for its development. He described that fate of the students cannot be left to the moments of share market and that thet same shouldn't be considered as dividend that goes as profit to the share holders. He emphatically said that no country in the world allows profiteering in education.

ICT education implementation

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The Digital Technology Expert Panel (DTEP) signaled in a release on Friday that many of the NZCS's recommendations would be put into place including programming and computer science courses at school and other areas within the ICT sector that have been underdeveloped in the education system would be addressed. The DTEP was formed after discussions between the NZCS and the Ministry of Education of how to shape the future of secondary school ICT education.

NZCS CEO Paul Matthews said, 'NZCS are proud to have been one of the key catalysts to bringing about this change. We are delighted that the Ministry has now agreed to adopt most of these recommendations and that NZCS and others were able to play such a pivotal role in bringing about the long overdue changes to ICT education in schools.' Matthews added that while it could be argued that these changes were long overdue, without the commitment from the Ministry and other parties, 'we could never have achieved this result for New Zealand.'

Mexus Education announces Student Icon of India 2009

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Mexus Education, an educational innovation enterprise, in association with National Geographic Channel (NGC) and Ministry of Science and Technology announces the winners of the nation wide 'Iken Scientifica 2009- Season III'. The grand finale was held at the renowned knowledge centre of Mumbai, IIT Powai and Singhania School, Thane on January 30 & 31, 2010 where winning 157 finalists from 14 cities competed for the prestigious title of 'Student Icon of India 2009'. In the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th standard categories, the four winners were awarded and all winners will be featured in NGC's special program on Iken Scientifica. In all prizes worth INR 50 lacs were awarded to all participants at various levels of Iken Scientifica. Speaking on the initiative, Saurabh Saxena, Director, Mexus Education, said, 'At Mexus Education, our over-riding aim is to make students enjoy the process of learning. All our products and services under the brand Iken including Iken Scientifica provide platform for students from across the country to unearth hands-on and enjoyable ways of learning. Iken Scientifica aims to boost budding talent to showcase an extraordinary aptitude in lateral thinking and experimentation.'

'The third version of Iken Scientifica has observed collaboration with National Geographic Channel and Ministry of Science and Technology and established Iken Scientifica as India's premier science and technology talent hunt,' added Saxena. Revathi Srinivasan, Principal, Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School said, 'We are delighted to be associated with this prestigious event since its inception and has seen an up rise in student participation. I believe it's a great platform for students to showcase their talent and drive them towards experiential and innovative learning.' The Guests of Honour who attended the event were Dr. Vandana Lulla, Director, Podar World School (IB), Mumbai; Revathi Srinivasan, Principal, Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School; Dr. Minaxi Upadhyay, Principal, Sheth M.K. High School (Borivali West), Mumbai; Mohan Kannan, Lead Vocalist, Agnee; Seema Taneja, Student Counsellor. The grand finale has been devised with a clear focus to enhance the ability of the participants to effectively use technology creating human networks that can be utilized to impart quality education of the future.

44 Universities in face a Jolt

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As many as 44 Universities without the permissible academic standards have been put in limelight by the the Union Government's HRD ministry, by notifying regarding withdrawal of their deemed status. Due to this, the two lakh students of these universities spread in 13 states, were put in a tight-spot. The Human Resource Development Ministry had done so on the basis of the reports prepared by the review committee and the task force and it had listed 44 institutions and suggested that they be given three years to rectify their deficiencies. These universities were reportedly being run as family fiefdoms rather than academic institutions.

Immediately after the issue was raised, The Supreme Court stopped the Union government from divesting 44 universities of their special 'deemed university' status and ordered that status quo be maintained. The court benched by Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A.K. Patnaik passed the order despite government's assurance that no follow-up action would be taken against these institutions without the court's consent. Additionaly, the HRD minister Kapil Sibal has already mentioned that students would not suffer.

India News-February 2010

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2010 to see reforms by AICTE

New methodologies of accountability and transparency are to be seen in the educational institutes in the year 2010 with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) introducing sweeping reforms in the higher education sector. With these changes the recognised colleges would be expected to display online their institute’s fee details, faculty components and admission related details, respectively. The Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal is expected to soon announce these reforms and the names of the colleges that are recognised by AICTE will have to declare their entire fees, its components, refundable portions on withdrawal of admission, number of seats per course, eligibility conditions, admission and selection process, details of teaching faculty, including their pay and qualifications, the institute’s physical and academic infrastructure and syllabus outline.

MBA technology to be the Highlight at NIT Calicut

The academic year 2010 – 2012 at The National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) – School of Management Studies is to focus on technology management for its MBA programme, which will be open only to B.Tech/B.Arch/BE/B.Sc engineering degree holders. Admission to the course will be based on marks scored in the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) Common Admission Test CAT) however, fi nal admission will be based on the candidate’s  performance in the Bachelor’s degree examination, group discussion and interview. Group
discussion and interview will be held in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai and NIT Calicut. The applications for the institute can be downloaded from the school website

IIT KHARAGPUR TO LAUNCH BIO-ENERGY CENTRE
Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur launched India’s fi rst bio-energy centre on Tuesday
for undertaking research, teaching and technological implementation of conventional and
non-conventional energy. It was mentioned that the P.K. Sinha Centre for Bio-Energyaimed to create an industry consortium to engage in industrial research. It is with supportof IIT alumnus Prabhakant Sinha, who pledged INR 10 crore for the centre, that the centrehas come into existence.Sinha, Founder and Co-Chairman of ZS Associates, told that once the industry consortiumcame into being, the captains of the industry will pay regular fees and share knowledgethrough regular seminars and conferences. The centre is to support in reduction of thecarbon footprint and enhancing the income of villagers and rural communities. The centre has already collaborated with Universityof California, Berkeley, for research partnership.

OVER 1LAC GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO GET COMPUTER EDUCATION
On Saturday an approval was made for introduction of computer education at the secondary and senior secondary levels, in 108,000 government and governmentaided schools, up from the existing 53,000, in a bid to bridge the digital divide. Human Resource Development
Minister Kapil Sibal told that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), approved a scheme of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in government and government-aided schools during the XIth plan period (2007-12) to cover a total of 1.08 lakh
such schools, in a meeting presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It is expected that around 1.5 crore students would benefi t from the scheme, whichwould also help train 10 lakh teachers in computer literacy.

MARKETING PROFESSIONALS
SHORT TERM COURSE AT IIM LUCKNOW A collaboration has taken place between Hughes Communication India Limited and Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) Noida campus, for the launch of its Advanced Program in Sales and Marketing, through Hughes Net
Global Education. The major objective of this newly designed programme is to focus upon the consumer insights and to build understanding about marketing research in Indian context. Showcasing the linkage between marketing and sales to the students, the objective of the six
month course is to provide an in-depth knowledge on contemporary issues in marketing like retail management, emarketing as well as prepare them how to select, evaluate and manage confl icts in distribution channels.

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