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International Education Roundtable to be held at Singapore

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All over the world governments spend billions to bring about reforms and improvements in eductaion, yet it is seen that some schools systems perform better than others. From July 6 to 8, an International Education Roundtable (IER), is to be held in Singapore. It will bring together education ministers and senior government officials from Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US for an open dialogue. India was invited to the IER would not be able to attend.

Conceived in 2008, the IER is a joint project by Singapore's ministry of education and McKinsey & Company. The roundtable will be co-chaired by Sir Michael Barber, partner at McKinsey & Company, together with Singapore's minister for education and second minister for defence, Ng Eng Hen. Chan informed that the meeting will include conversation on educational themes such as preparing educated citizens of the future, attracting & recruiting good teachers, grooming school leaders and impact of ICT and education.

Tally India to foray into China with languages software

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Accounting software company Tally India, which has launched its concurrent multi-lingual business accounting and inventory management software, Tally 8.1 in ten Indian languages, is all set to take the product to China where it will offer the same in some of the dialects.

The company is also working at launching it in other Indian languages, including Urdu, and will launch the products in Arabic for West Asia and other foreign languages, including for markets in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

Patent-Teacher meet at IIT Delhi

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IIT Delhi comes out with a new definition for 'innovation.' Hooking to the idea of Intellectual Property Rights, the institute is now seeking protection for its pioneering technology and ideas, though traditionally it was less inclined towards the same. IIT-Delhi had approved of 35 of its innovations for patent filling in 2008-09, the highest ever for IIT Delhi. Professor Surendra Prasad, Director IIT Delhi, mentioned that the above was a result of change in the thinking of the faculty. Initially they just wanted to get their work published quickly, however, now the focus is also on retaining patent rights to work they present. For the uninitiated, IPR is a legal right granted to the owner of a creation, both artistic and commercial. Patents, trademarks and copyrights are kinds of IPR.

180 patent applications have been filed by IIT Delhi, since its inception, with 60 under its belt presently. 2004-05 saw filling of 24 patent right applications, after which there was a steady rise in innovations approved for filling IPR.

10th CBSE Boards to be optional from 2010

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Kapil Sibal, on Tuesday, mentioned that from the coming year Central Board of Secondary Education examination will be optional and a nine point grading system would be implemented replacing the marks system. The minister denied the claim that one national board will replace all existing 42 state education boards. He added that the attempt was to make a child friendly educational system and not forcing rules down throats of the people. It was in 2005 that the bill to make class X board exams optional was passed by Central Advisory Board on Education, the country's top education policy-making body which has state education ministers as members. Same was also suggested by National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in order to reduce stress on children, in 2006. Sibal explained that Class 10 exams will be made optional for those children who want to continue in the same school. Continuous internal assessment will decide whether a child will be promoted to class XII. The new system has following additional features. Those who secure over 90% will get grade A. Mark sheets won't use the term failed for students who score less than 33% in particular subject. They will be given an E grade that will imply improvement required. And only when a student gets an E in more than one subject, student will be considered as failed. The grades consist of A, A1, B, B1, C,C1, D, D and E.

For prescribed affiliation from CBSE, internal assessment is mandatory for students till class 10. However, CBSE will continue to conduct exams for those students who wish to join pre-university professional courses. There is already an existence a grading system in place till class 9.

Ireland Minister Conor Lenihan supports eEngagement, Awareness

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Recently, Conor Lenihan T.D., the Minister of State with special responsibility for the Knowledge Society along with Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Emer Costello celebrated the achievement of 1,500 people from a wide range of backgrounds completing training under the BenefIT Scheme which is operated by the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources. The utilisation of computers and other Information and Communication Technologies by people who previously had a low level of use or none are some of the factors that the scheme promotes.

Implementation of a novel training programme is to take place as one of the largest projects under the scheme Dublin Employment Pact (DEP), together with Dublin City Council and Fastrack to IT (FIT). The DEP programme received BenefIT funding of

Huge payoffs from trust education sector

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Big-ticket investors, including private equity players and high networth individuals (HNIs), have been betting on the potential of the sector as it has begun to witness actions from the government too. During the last one year, major companies

Funds to Secondary education programme by The World Bank

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The World Bank has expressed interest to support the newly launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) scheme for improvement of quality of secondary education in the country. The Ministry of HRD has agreed to the proposal of the World Bank and has written to Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) for further action, DEA sources told PTI. The Bank at present also supports the government's flagship programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), which aims at universalisation of elementary education. The Bank has taken interest in RMSA keeping in view the objective of the programme to check drop-out rate at secondary level completely by 2020. The scheme also aims to achieve a general enrollment target of 75 % for classes IX-X within five years from 52.26 % as in 2005-06 by providing a secondary school within a reasonable distance of every habitation. The government has allocated INR 20,120 crore during the 11th Plan for the scheme.

As per the provision of the scheme, Centre shall bear 75 % of the project expenditure during the 11th five-year plan while states' share will be the remaining 25 %. Sharing pattern will be 50:50 for the 12th five-year plan. For both the 11th and 12th five-year plans, funding pattern will be 90:10 for North Eastern States. Apart from improving quality of education at secondary level by making all secondary schools conform to prescribed norms, the scheme also aims at removal of gender, socio-economic and disability barriers and ensuring universal access to secondary level education by 2017 and universal retention by 2020. It would also provide facilities for estimated additional enrollment of 32.20 lakh children by 2011-12 through strengthening of about 44,000 existing secondary schools, opening 11,188 new secondary schools, appointment of 1.79 lakh additional teachers and construction of 80,500 additional classrooms. The other interventions are providing infrastructure in schools such as new classrooms with furniture, library, science laboratory, computer room and disabled-friendly provisions. Besides, more teachers would be recruited with emphasis on science, mathematics and English faculty. Teachers would be provided in service training along with teaching aids such as ICT and special focus would be given to SC/ST/Minorities girls. Steps such as priority for opening or upgrading of schools in areas of SC/ST/minority/weaker section concentration and enrollment drives and special coaching classes in these areas are also envisaged under the scheme.

TERI University partners with Deutsche Bank for MBA Scholarships

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Deutsche Bank Scholarship for the MBA (Infrastructure) programme was launched by Deutsche Bank in partnership with TERI University. R.K. Pachauri, the Chancellor, TERI University and Caio Koch-Weser, Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group, signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the above. The MoU was signed in the presence of Shrinath Bolloju, Chief Operating Officer, Deutsche Bank, B. K. Chaturvedi, Member, Planning Commission and Group Captain Rajiv Seth, Registrar, TERI University. The Bank will provide three scholarships under this MoU, for MBA programme, per year with each scholarship being given for maximum of two years.


The MBA (Infrastructure) programme has been designed to create a cadre of professionals who have a sound understanding of the technical, policy, legal, financial, social and environmental dimensions of large infrastructure projects. The aim is to achieve a critical mass of expertise and academic excellence that would provide a basis for influencing public policy and regulatory practice and for developing effective management practices in infrastructure industries through research and teaching. The programme encompasses a comprehensive and well-structured two-year curriculum to enable students to formulate, analyze and evaluate regulatory policies and manage alternative regulatory regimes in the best interests of their businesses. The curriculum is designed specifically to provide specialized training in the concepts and skills involved in the regulatory process and competition policy, as well as helping the scholars understand regulation from technical, economic, social, legal and political perspectives.

Education sector to welcome private and foreign institutions says Sibal

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Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday reiterated the UPA government's keenness to open up the education sector to foreign education providers and private players. The minister made this clear in his keynote address at the plenary session of the World Conference on Higher Education at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Earlier this week, Sibal had told Parliament that the government was considering introducing a legislation allowing foreign education providers to set up campuses in India. In Paris, Sibal said higher education providers delivering cross-border education should ensure that their programmes are of comparable quality to that provided in their home country. Flagging issues that will come up when the domestic legislation is introduced in Parliament, Sibal pointed out that increased cross-border education required networks of equivalence of degrees and diplomas. The minister asked the UNESCO to helping member states to develop national standards of accreditation for bench-marking higher education, improving and maintaining the quality of education. This, he suggested would ensure that private players do not become 'teaching sweat-shops'.

Touching upon another contentious domestic issue, that of greater private sector participation, Sibal said that public institutions cannot keep pace with the rising demand. The minister said that there was a need to realise the importance of private sector in making investments in higher education. In Parliament, Sibal had made it abundantly clear that allowing private sector a larger role was the way to move forward.

NGOs desire Hike in Education Budget

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Various child rights organisations have demanded that the budgetary allocation for education – for the 40 % young population of the country – be increased when the union budget is presented early next month. Jayakumar Christian, director of the Chennai-based World Vision, said, 'As of now only about 4.8 % of the GDP is dedicated for children in terms of education, who constitute 40 % population of the country. We want this increased to at least six percent.' Legislation on the proposed Right to Education bill, which makes education free and compulsory for children in the age group of six and 14, is another demand that organistaions have been long championing.

Umesh Gupta of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a Delhi-based child rights organistaion, said, 'the UPA government's promise, as laid down in the common minimum programme, of spending six percent of the GDP as public resource for education remains unfulfilled with the combined outlay for the primary education departments of the centre and states remaining at a meager 2.84 % of GDP in 2007-08.' He added, 'We, therefore, urge the government that the spending on education should not be less than six percent.' In a letter to President Pratibha Patil, several voluntary organisations, including BBA and World Vision, put down their demands for implementation of the Right to Education Bill and realising the millennium development goals.

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