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Indian researcher leaders for the future being trained at British University

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Within an umbrella of a unique scholarship programme to develop Indian scientific research leaders of the future, a group of Indian students has just returned home after visiting Queen's University, Belfast. The 32 students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) and Amity University spent three weeks at Queen's University, which is a member of the Russell Group comprising Britain's top 20 research-intensive universities. Queen's India Welcome Scheme was created to allow Indian science and technology students to develop research leaders of the future and experience life and work in Belfast, said the university, which recently appointed Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma as its vice-chancellor.

The visiting students got to work alongside scientists from Queen's who have invented the world's first low-cost technology to provide arsenic-free water to affected areas in eastern India and devised a new electronic filter which will lead to more accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change. In addition, to the scheme for university students, Queen's is also currently running a pilot project with several schools in Delhi and Kolkata, including La Martiniere, Kolkata; Modern High School, Kolkata; G.D. Goenka Public School, Delhi and Sri Ram, Delhi, the university said on Tuesday.

Western Classical music soon to be taught at Bhatkhande University

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The Bhatkhande Music Institute University is one of the most prestigious destinations for learning Hindustani classical music, in this state capital will now also impart training in Western classical music, told officials. The varsity administration has decided to launch courses in Western music, especially instrumental, from the next admission session. According to officials, the varsity will initially train students to play different types of Western musical instruments like the piano and others coming under the brass and the strings category.

Later, depending upon the feedback from students, the varsity will expand the domain of training. In a few months, the varsity will make appointments of faculty members to train students in Western music. In 1926, Pt.Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande established a music school in Lucknow with the help and co-operation of Rai Umanath Bali and Rai Rajeshwar Bali and other music patrons and connoisseurs of Lucknow. The institution was inaugrated by the then Governor of Awadh Sir William Marris and was named after him as 'Marris College of Music'. On March 26, 1966, the Uttar Pradesh goverment brought the college under its control and renamed it after its founder as Bhatkhande College of Hindustani Music. At the request of the state government, the central government by a notification on Oct 24, 2000, declared the institute a university. Students not only from India, but also from Sri Lanka, Nepal, central and east Asian countries study in the varsity on (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) ICCR scholarships.

10 Dollar laptop to be Developed, say Minister

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India’s technology institutes should work to develop low-cost laptops not costing more than $10 for students, according to Minister of State for Higher Education D. Purandareswari. She explained while addressing a wide audience at eIndia 2009, the country’s largest information and communication technology (ICT) event which began at Hyderabad on Tuesday, that although developing a ten dollar computer is a challenge, but we have potential and capability for overcoming the same. She added that a collaboration amongst all was required to ensure subsidized prices of laptop, making it accessible to all the students.

Purandareswari said the National Mission on Education through ICT to be launched by the ministry of human resources development would also focus on achieving technological breakthrough by developing low-cost and low-power consuming access devices. The mission will leverage the potential of ICT, in providing personalised and interactive knowledge modules over the internet for higher education institutions. The minister said developing content for children in their mother tongue would be another major challenge. Purandareswari also underlined the need to remove fear of technology among the teaching community. According to her, her ministry is working out a national ICT policy framework. The government is also in the process of implementing a secondary education scheme called Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan during the 11th plan at a cost of INR 20,120 crore. Organised by Centre for Science Development and Media Studies, the three-day international conference and exhibition is a platform for knowledge sharing in different domains of ICT among governments, industry, academia and civil society organisations of various countries.

Harbinger in global top 20 learning process providers list

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    Harbinger, a Pune-based e-Learning company in India finds its name in the top-20 list of specialised learning process providers, brought out by TrainingOutsourcing.com, a leading analyst in business strategies for learning, based in the US. 

    Harbinger made it to this global list as a content development tools provider. Other international and Indian companies in this top 20 list include Hewlett Packard, Hewitt (admin services), Thomson Prometric (assessment and testing) and Adobe (content development tools), Tata Interactive Systems, Genpact, IBM Learning solutions and Convergys. The list rates companies recognised as leaders in supplying specific learning process services in support of comprehensive training outsourcing service providers. Harbinger is a provider of software products and services. The company also provides custom e-Learning design and development services to clients worldwide.

    Exams without books at Punjab

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    Computer teachers at Ludhiana are yet to receive books from Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), even after months have passed since the academic session started in schools and with exams already being rolled-out. Furthermore, many of the 500 schools are yet to receive the entire complement of books. How teachers are managing to teach students or how the latter are making do without books is anyone's guess. Jasvir Singh, District Co-ordinator of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) mentioned that shortage took place due to lack of supply. Giving an instance he said that if in a school there are 70 students studying in a class then 60 have the books and 10 students are doing without them. He added that the problem is restricted not only with semester classes but with other classes also.

    SC intervention on noticing 6000 vacant teaching posts in Delhi Schools

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    The Delhi Government was questioned about the 6000 vacant posts of teachers in its school in the capital on Wednesday. The Supreme Court came up with a warning for the Delhi Government that if the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) is incapable of performing its task then the responsibility should be entrusted to some other agency. An ultimatum of two weeks was given by a bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari, to file an affidavit giving a schedule for filling up the vacancies.

    A PIL was filed by the Environment and Consumer Protection Foundation in 2004, which facilitated the instructions give by the court. The former highlighted the plight of government run-schools in the capital along with the lack of basic civic amenities like drinking water, toilets and buildings.

    Varsity Shut at Australia leaves 500 Indian students in lurchVarsity Shut at Australia leaves 500 Indian students in lurch

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    On July 28, 2009, with sudden shut down of Sydney's Sterling College, hundreds of international students were left in the lurch. Now over six weeks later, over 500 Indian students among them still do not have a college to go to. That's despite assurance from the Australian Council of Private Education and Training (ACPET) of finding alternate private institutions for them within 28 days. Of the 500 odd Indian students, about 300 students of Community Welfare have recently received offer letters from other private institutes. Getting fresh admission isn't the only worry for Indian students in Australia. They have lost money as well. Sterling College had increased its fees by 40% four months before its closure. Ajay Unni from FISA, Sydney, maintains that the situation has gone from bad to worse.

    IT degrees to Africans by Amity University in India

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    Amity, one of India's top universities, is to offer online IT degrees and diplomas to 100,000 students on the African continent over the next five years. At 53 learning centers in the 53 African Union (AU) countries under the Pan-African E-network project, 100,000 IT students will be trained. The Pan-African e-Network project is a joint initiative of the government of India and the AU and is funded by India at an estimated cost of US$116 million. The project has three components including tele-education, tele-medicine and diplomatic communications; has been coordinated by the ministries of ICT wherever it has been adopted. In Uganda, the tele-education component is hosted at Makerere University's Faculty of Computing and Information Technology.

    The faculty, a partner institution with Amity University, has invited applications for interested students. The courses that are on offer include a Bachelor of IT, a post-graduate diploma in IT and a diploma in IT. Amity University will provide virtual educational services through e-learning technology and video-conferencing facilities set up at Makerere University. Makerere University, in turn, will be providing support to universities in eastern Africa. Eligible students enrolled in various programs will be required to attend classes in the learning centers set up in each member country as part of the project. Learning centers would offer pre-defined lecture schedules available at a tele-education portal. Live and interactive lectures will be delivered by experienced faculty staff from the tele-education studio set up in India. A unique feature of the tele-education system in the project is the offline access to the lecture content.

    Govt to Overcome Imbalance in Educational Infrastructure

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    The Board Chairman of GETFUND, Dr Kwabena Adjei has assured that the government would tackle the imbalances in the provision of infrastructure for schools in the country. He was speaking at the first congregation of the Jasikan College of Education at Jasikan. Dr Adjei, who is a past student of the college, expressed his disgust at the shoddy and poor jobs done on educational projects in the recent past. Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, the Deputy Minister of Education told that the government was determined to provide the necessary infrastructure, motivation and directional leadership to develop all colleges of education, as they constituted the bedrock of the nation's educational system. She said government would provide the colleges with ICT wares so that teacher trainees could acquire the skills to enable them teach ICT at the basic level.

    Richard Adjei, Chairman of the Governing Council regretted that though the college was established in 1952 it still did not have an auditorium and had not seen any renovation on its old buildings for years. He appealed to GETFUND to construct a library complex and an ICT centre for the college. Henry Ford Karmel, Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources and also Member of Parliament (MP) for the area presented two sets of jerseys and footballs to the college.

    Maharashtra schools to get ICT support from Microsoft

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    A Memorandum of Understanding was inked between State government and Microsoft India to enhance ICT adoption in schools and build the employability readiness skills of the future workforce. This was an extension of the previous agreement signed in 2007. According to the new agreement, the software giant will help the state government to enhance ICT adoption in schools and build the employability readiness skills of the future workforce in Maharashtra.

    Government of Maharashtra's Education Secretary, Sanjay Kumar, IAS, and Microsoft India's managing director Rajan Anandan signed the agreement today in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and Education Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil. The latest MoU is an extension of the previous agreement, under which Microsoft had setup three state-of-the-art IT academies in Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad. Also, it trained over 92,000 teachers who in turn impacted over 46,00,000 students in the state. Microsoft, under the new education alliance, will further train about 6000 teachers, some 100,000 pre-service teachers and also add three new IT academies in next two years. The aim is to adopt ICT and bring in focus on employability and build capacity in the state. Microsoft will provide training to the teachers and pre-service teachers with the 10 day training module in a classroom setup and then each of the trained resources can then further build ICT readiness among others educators in the cluster. The company will conduct over 200 sessions at the district level for offering training to 6000 resources. In terms of building employability readiness amongst class 11 and 12 students, Microsoft will initiate two key programs such as Live@Edu initiative and DreamSpark. Moreover, under the Microsoft's Live@Edu initiative, the company will provide students and teachers with email IDs as per school specific domains across some 85,000 schools in the state and aims to create an online community.

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