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IGNOU and IBM partner to revamp ICT Education in India

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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), The Advanced Center for Informatics and Innovative Learning (ACIIL) and IBM India have signed an MoU that will reinvent and reform IT education in the country. The collaboration, co-operation and joint working of IBM, with IGNOU, will bridge the gap that exists between education, skills and national development. As a part of the MoU, IGNOU and IBM India will partner to skill students on the IT standards in the emerging verticals like healthcare, financial services and retail that have a significant growth potential, in addition to the skills demand of Open Source software and Open Standards, with live projects.

Under the MoU, the first phase will offer three programs that will include a certificate in open source software, diploma in open source software and industry vertical domain open standards, and advanced diploma in industry vertical domain open standards (healthcare/ retail/ insurance). The Innovation Center for Open Standards (iCos), an online platform, will be the underlying framework for the engagement between IBM and IGNOU for the execution of the courses. The IBM iCos platform links students' project-based learning with IT industry and mentors. This will be seamlessly integrated into IGNOU's in house developed Unified Learning Platform in due course. This effort will fill up the Finishing School efforts of the IT Industry today, enabling DAY One deployment. The students will immensely benefit from the flexibility of learning at their own pace, anytime, anywhere, anyhow and make the students future-ready. IBM said it has a long-standing commitment to furthering education, including its IBM Academic Initiative, which offering a wide range of technology education benefits from free to fee that can scale to meet the goals of most colleges and universities. IBM will work with universities and colleges that support Open Standards and seek to use Open Source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, both directly and virtually via the Web. IGNOU's Unified Learning model, which is being launched shortly, will support all learning models such as face-to-face, online, in-line, print based, self learning, Web-based and thus match with the flexibility of learning at one's own pace, anywhere, anytime, anyhow. The continuous assessment will enable skills development, to match with the emerging global demands of industrial workforce.

3 minutes Heritage films from 12 schools across Delhi

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Across 12 schools of New Delhi, class VI-VIII students present their awareness about Delhi's History and character. These children through a festival organised by INTACH, showcased their passion for the beautiful and rich history that Delhi city holds, each making a three minute film on seven cities of Delhi to protect their city's cultural and natural heritage. These films were screened at Film IT festival on Monday. The students who participated scripted, edited and shot the videos on their own. Themes selected were inclusive of Delhi's rich cultural heritage and cultural history.

Twelve schools from classes VI to VIII were part of the multi-cultural event at which students got to exchange ideas and showcase their film-making talents. The event was attended by the censor board chief Sharmila Tagore, who was alos the chief guest. The participating schools included Sanskriti School, Shriram school, Modern School, Springdales Dhaulan Kuan, DPS Mathura Road, St Mary's, The Banyan Tree, Delhi Police Public School, Bluebell's International, St Columba's, Navyug School and Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya. The festival took place in Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. All together, over 190 short films were made. In Delhi alone, students made 130 short films, of which 12 films were screened at the festival, one from each school.

Enhanced scholarship funds for SC and OBC students

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The quantum of central assistance for children of those engaged in unclean occupation has been enhanced from from 50pc to 100pc to all State Governments/UTs under the scheme of 'Pre-matric scholarship.' D. Napoleon, the Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment gave this information in the Rajya Sabha. Under the scheme of 'Pre-matric scholarship for OBC students, 'The proposals from State Governments/UTs are received and funds are released as per their notional allocation after examining the utilization certificate and provision in the State budget,' said a release from the Ministery.

Under the 'Post-matric scholarship scheme” for SC students the annual income-limit of INR 1 lakh was fixed w.e.f. 1.4.2003.' A need was felt to increase the income ceiling and scholarship rates as well as revise other norms applicable under this scheme. Accordingly, the revision of this scheme is under consideration.

INR 12.5 to IIM-C student for 2 month internship

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In changing times, with what people termed as 'recession', that is now considered to be passing by, a student from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) earned the highest summer internship stipend paid to an IIM student ever, exceeding the highest paid stipend to an IIM student last year for a summer internship by over 50%. As part of internship, we worked with an investment bank in Hong Kong and was paid a stipend of INR 12.5 lakh. With some experience finance domain, the IIT Delhi student has worked with a few companies over a period of two years. The stipend, he said, would be utilized to pay his MBA fee and some part of it might be invested in market. If this stipend is translated in terms of a pre-placement offer, the student could fetch about Rs 75 lakh as basic salary alone, excluding perks, variable pay and bonus. He also added that the part-payment was made to him in dollars and the rest in rupees, but even after factoring out the exchange rate quotient, the stipend is significantly higher than last year.

The highest stipend paid last year was also by another I-bank in London. Ironically, at a time when IIMs saw a dip of 15-30% in the average salary packages being offered this year, the internship stipends are increasing against a trend that saw global investment banks and other companies reducing the number of jobs offered to IIM students significantly. Instead, many students had to take up job in start-ups and smaller companies. Students at IIM-A have also indicated that summer stipends have gone up, but not necessarily at the same rate. However, the institute did not provide any official figures or data related to this year's or last year's stipends. Those familiar with the IIMs say that the remuneration paid across IIM A, B & C are in the same bracket, with a 10-20% difference in upper and higher limits. Summer internship stipends can start from anywhere between INR 20,000-30,000 for a two-month period.

Turner & Townsend, EC Harris, Atkins and WSP make schools ICT framework

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Seventeen consultants, including Turner & Townsend, EC Harris, Atkins and WSP, have won a place on a four-year education ICT framework. The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) appointed the companies to the list of approved firms to advise on ICT provision in new-build and regeneration programmes including Building Schools for the Future.

Other successful bidders include Navigant Consulting, Mouchel, Tribal Group and PTS Consulting. Stephen Lucey, executive director of strategic technologies at Becta, said, 'These suppliers will be a major force supporting Becta's strategy to ensure that the education sector's investment in ICT delivers real benefit to learners and the nation as a whole.'

Removal of UGC and AICTE suggested by Yashpal committee

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The Yashpal Committee, headed by scientist Yashpal has suggested a number of recommendations including the removal of the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), National Council for Teacher Education (NCERT) and Distance Education Council. The committee report also says that IITs and IIMs should also be turned into full-fledged universities. A national test on the line of Graduate Record Exam (GRE) should be introduced for higher education in the country. This would be open to all aspirants and would be held more than once a year. Instead of all regulatory bodies a seven member Commission for Higher Education and Research (CHER) under an Act of Parliament should be set up to govern the higher education in the country. The proposed CHER will have a Chairperson and members will be selected by a committee headed by the PM, Leader of Opposition and the Chief Justice of India.

Commission will have five divisions dealing with future directions, accreditation management, funding and development and new institutions. An eminent individual will head each division for five years. Yashpal committee was formed in a view to suggest measures for 'renovation and rejuvenation' of higher education in India. The committee expressed grief over the growth of deemed universities and suggested a complete ban on further grant of such status. Three years time period would be given to existing ones to develop as a full-fledged university and fulfill the prescribed norms of accreditation. Recommending curricular reform, the committee said teachers should have the freedom to design courses and students should be able to study subjects outside their courses.

Students from FTII to participate in workshop on cinematography

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Deepu S Unni, a student for the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune has been selected as a scholar in the Budapest Cinematography Masterclass (BCM) 2009, scheduled to be organized in Budapest,Hungry later next month. Deepu is currently studying in final year of cinematography. He is the only Indian among 15 other participants who has selected for the prestigious bi-annual event. The event will start on August 30 and end on September 13.

All the 16 participants will get a platform to learn the modern techniques and aesthetics of cinematography at this event, conducted by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. The Hungarian University of Drama, Film and Television and the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers, in association with the National Film and Television School of Great Britain has been conducting the BCM twice in a year since 1991. Previous master classes have been conducted by Zsigmond, and other Academy award-winning cinematographers, like Haskell Wexler ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest') and Billy Williams ( Gandhi').

Punjab tops in School Infrastructure

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Leading amongst states, Punjab has added another feather to its cap! It is emerged as the state providing the best infrastructure and facilities to primary and upper primary schools. Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur on Sunday said Punjab has surpassed Delhi, which has now shifted to second position as far as the infrastructure index is concerned. Educational Development Index supported these findings, prepared by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), established by the central government's human resource development ministry.

The infrastructure index of Punjab is 0.917 whereas for Delhi it is 0.909. NUEPA is a premier institution that deals with capacity building and research in planning and management of education not only in India but in also South Asia. The minster told that the survey revealed that Punjab schools have a strong workforce of 50,793 teachers and 5,332 head teachers. She added that in Punjab there are 894 girl students enrolled in schools for every 1000 boys.

Ministry to upgrade schools by bridging ‘Tech Gap’

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For the next two years, the key initiative of the Ministry of Education (MoE) will be to bridge the gap between technologically backward schools and those that are advanced by the implementation of standards aligned to an international society that formulates education guidelines. Incorporating technology still remains an issue with some schools being more technologically advanced than others as curricula vary, said speakers at a presentation at the Gulf Education and Technology Exhibition 2009?(GETEX) that began in Dubai, on Wednesday. Elizabeth A. Ross, Educational Advisor at the MoE's Professional Development Department, said that the educational governing body will be working with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to lay a foundation to bridge the digital divide and incorporate technology for the best teaching practices in schools.

The ISTE is an organisation that brings together educators from 73 nations to formulate standards to apply information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching. Using technology for classroom management, instruction, student understanding and assisting those with special needs are integral to development. According to the standards, teachers must understand growth and development of students, the learning environment, curriculum and instructional technology to be applied. The MoE has implemented a five-year Professional Development Plan and will be focusing on blanket standards that need to be applied by schools in the UAE. 'We will also be developing a Centre for Excellence in Learning Techniques Department,' said Ross, adding that the entire programme is being headed by Nabila Ali, Director of Professional Development at the MoE. The UAE is not a registered country with the ISTE but many schools use its standards in the country. 'I am not completely aware of the number of schools registered from the region but we know schools are catching up. We are currently trying to work with the Ministry of Education, Knowledge Human Development Authority (KHDA) and the Abu Dhabi Education Council to formalise the efficient use of technology in classrooms,' said Knezek.

NAA invites schools for online evaluation of national curriculum tests

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The National Assessment Agency of UK is inviting schools to take part in an online evaluation of the national curriculum tests. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

NAA is committed to improving the standards of provision and support offered to schools. Through these online evaluations, it is asking schools for their views on its work and how it can improve its service in future. Click the appropriate key stage link below to start the questionnaire. It will take about 15 minutes to complete each questionnaire. The National Assessment Agency (NAA) was launched in April 2004 to develop and deliver high-quality national curriculum.

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