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OLPC group has agreed to start the learning center in
Rwanda, the chosen one for OLPC learning center
Options in media studies
Delhi University students can now try their hands at acting, radio jockeying, journalism and a host of other media related activities. DU colleges are offering a plethora of add-on courses in the field of media and communication. 'Add-on' courses give students an edge in the intensely competitive job market by equipping them with skills that they may not get with just an honours degree or an integrated programme. The short duration of the programme and the wide variety of options has made such courses extremely popular among students. The most popular courses such as journalism and media studies/mass communication are offered by Bharti College, Maiteyri, Janki Devi Memorial College, Maharaja Agrasen, Jesus and Mary, Hindu and Kamla Nehru College. Shaheed Bhagat Singh College offers journalism course in both languages, English and Hindi. Indraprastha College offers a range of interesting media-centric three month courses such as anchoring, broadcast reporting, news reading, camera and linear editing.
IP also offers a course in corporate communication and public relations. The three month certificate course in advertising is relatively younger, launched only last year. Jesus and Mary College has a three month course in new reading and anchoring. Miranda House offers two short-term certificate courses on radio jockeying and television patrakarita, which includes camera training, news reading, reporting, weather anchoring, make up skills, pronunciation, voice modulation and outdoor shootings. A first-of-its-kind course in acting is provided by Hindu College. The course has already trained more than 30 students since its introduction.
Program Business Skills Programme launched by NIS Academy
NIS Academy, an educational initiative of NIS Sparta Ltd., Asia's leading training, education and learning solutions provider and a Reliance ADA Group company, has recently announced the launch of a unique 'Program in Business Skills
Indiatimes offers online practice tests for students
Indiatimes.com, the country's leading Internet portal, is now providing online testing services, under its knowledge brand
Accreditation of Educational Institutions, Panel draft bill ready
Plans are on of the government to make accreditation compulsory for all the institutions of higher education, to ensure quality education. The National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) is to prescribe norms of quality control and rules for the selection of Vice chancellors. The commission is to replace bodies like the University Grants commission, All India Council of Technical Education and National Council of Teachers Education, revealed the HRD Ministry on Monday wjile sharing some of the details of the draft.
According to the draft Bill, the commission will specify norms and standards for grant of authorisation to a university or a higher educational institution before it can begin operations. National registry will be mainatined with names of eligible persons for the post of vice-chancellors. When required, it will suggest five names. An attempt has been made to make the process of authorisation transparent. Within 30 days of receiving an application, the commission will have to declare its intent to grant authorisation. It will then issue a public notice on its website, inviting comments and objections. Within four months of receiving the application, the commission will issue authorisation. It will have to give in writing the reasons for turning down an application.
Azerbaijan Ministry and Microsoft hold Conference with Innovative Teacher contest
For a dedicated introduction of information technologies in education sector the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan and Microsoft Azerbaijan, organised a conference to be held in Baku today. The winners of the Innovative Teacher Contest were announced at the event. Addressing to the conference education minister Misir Mardanov pointed out that in collaboration with Microsoft they realized a great deal of projects in country's education system. The conference also covered the system of motivation of teachers for use of information technologies in education. The education minister made a concrete proposal concerning this system.
Education solutions at ‘eLearning Africa’ by Integrated Technology Groups
During the conference, ITG will be showcasing its innovative educational platform EduWave
DU advise: Stick to our help-desks to avoid confusion
Help-desks are meant to make things easier for aspirants during the admission season. But if DU officials are to be believed, help-desks on DU campus are doing exactly the opposite. According to DU officials, many aspirants have turned up at the office of the dean, students' welfare (DSW) with complaints against help-desk volunteers. The aspirants claimed the volunteers allegedly misguided them due to which they filled the forms wrongly. 'Many students have given verbal complaints to us that the helpdesks on the campus misguided them. These volunteers are not well-versed with the procedure and often give wrong or incomplete information to the applicants,' said Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, deputy dean, students' welfare.
Though the university has banned any private institute to set up a help-desk on the campus, the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) and some other students' organizations have been allowed to do so. According to Tuteja, there have been cases in the first week of sale of forms wherein a student was asked to fill up two copies of common pre-admission form each for applying in BCom (honours) and BCom. Many applicants had also filled the subject and course codes wrong. However, DUSU officials say that such mistakes on part of their volunteers are just one-off. Nupur Sharma, president, DUSU, said, 'We guide the aspirants out of our own experience and after reading the information bulletin of the university. Such mistakes can happen once or twice, not always.' DUSU has 17 help desks at various centres where the pre-admission forms are being sold.
Scholarship program by DoST
The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has posted their scholarship program which will benefit those who took up courses or may want to take up fields of study related to Science and Technology (S&T) disciplines. First of their four scholarship programs is the Junior Level Science Scholarship (JLSS). JLSS is intended to all regular 3rd year college students throughout the academic year 2009-2010 who are at present enrolled in state universities under any of the subsequent recognized priority S&T courses, namely: Agricultural Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemical Eng'g., Chemistry, Computer Eng'g., Physics and Statistics, among others. The deadline for the program application will be on June 26, 09. There are also scholarships available for those professionals engaged in research, fresh graduates, and on-going MS/PhD students who took courses in Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Earth and Space Science, Environment, Fisheries and Marine Science, ICT, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Microelectronics, and Physics.
This program is called Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program (ASTHRD), which is offered to University-based MS/PhD Program and Thesis/Dissertation Grant Support for R&D priority areas of DoST. Deadline for this is on August 31, 09. Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) Human Resource Development Program is the application available to professionals with a BS/MS degree in Engineering. Study placement for ERDT includes Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, Mindanao State University-IIT, University of the Philippines Diliman and Los Ba
PU pays student for clerical error
The Panjab University (PU) here has been asked by a consumer forum to pay INR 50,000 to a student, who was not allowed to sit for an exam on time due to a clerical error. According to the complainant, Gurdeep Singh, a student of BA-III of PU, he had gone to the < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
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He added, 'Immediately after the exam I approached the concerned officials in PU and they told me that such mistakes are common.' Singh said that due to this confusion he could not concentrate on his exam and that affected his performance. 'I suffered a lot of mental and physical harassment so I decided to approach the consumer forum,' said Singh. The district consumer disputes redressal forum here on Tuesday directed PU to pay Singh INR 50,000 as compensation. The university was also directed to pay INR 5,000 to the petitioner as cost of litigation proceedings.
