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IICPT and Canada ink deal for facilitating Academic Courses

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Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT), Ministry of Food Processing Industries and the University of Manitoba, Canada to facilitate development of mutually beneficial academic programmes and courses. The MoU was signed in the presence of Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai, Secretary Ashok Sinha, Deputy Minister of Federal-provincial and International Relations and Trade and Deputy Minister of Finance Diane Grey, Member of Legislative Assembly and Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier of Manitoba Bidhu Jha, at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi. The MoU which was signed by Dr. K. Alagusundaram, the Director of IICPT and Dr. Digvir Jayas, Vice President (Research), University of Manitoba, Canada, intends to facilitate collaborative programs of research, training, curriculum, institutional development, information dissemination, and exchange of faculty, students and staff.

The linkage formed through this MoU between the two Institutions will further each partner institution's objectives as well as strengthen the mutual relationship between the partners. The Minister, Sahai emphasised that since the current MoU between the two premier institutions specifically covers mostly academics and R&D, there is a need to prepare a more comprehensive and broad-based MoU between the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India and Government of Manitoba to cover critical issues pertaining to Food Safety and Quality, Food Technology, Food Fortification and Nutrition, Incubation Centres to develop more industries locally and create more employment. The University of Manitoba is an important educational institution in Central Canada. More than 25,000 students study in the Arts and Science, Engineering, Health and Law faculties. The University offers bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in all these disciplines and has a faculty strength of more than 5000. The University of Manitoba has strong academic and research programs in food and process engineering. It has an established state of the art, grain storage research centre in the campus which is the best in the world. The Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT) is a Pioneer Research and Development Institute under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.

Online admission for junior colleges in Maharashtra

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The department of school education of Maharashtra has launched a site for admission to the junior colleges in < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Maharashtra. Students can apply online for admission through http://fyjc.org.in/mumbai

The website will start functioning by June 10. 'Around 700 colleges across the Mumbai have their information on the website,' said V.K. Wankhede, deputy director, School Education Department.

 

'All students will be provided a separate login id through which they will be able to access all the detail about college, number of seats available etc,' added Wankhede. 'There will be only online admission. We have issued a GR in this regard. There should be no confusion on this matter now,' said Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Minister State School Education.

MICA workshop to see brainstorm between corporates and academicians

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Ways of generating ides for case studies for teaching management students will be a concern to be addressed at a workshop that started on Thursday. Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA) had brought representatives from the corporate world and academicians on the same platform so that new cases that are relevant in the Indian context and the modern times can be developed. The four-day workshop, Case Writing – an exercise in advanced techniques and global methods, is being held at MICA main campus in Shela from June 11. The workshop is part of Management Faculty Development Programme of the institute.

The workshop has been specifically designed for management faculty and researchers working in schools, universities, colleges and professional institutes and will help participants acquire required case writing skills by exposing them to some of the best international techniques and methods. The workshop includes sessions and exercises on case plan preparation, case components, case difficulty cube, fieldwork and secondary data search, opening paragraph writing, case draft and teaching note preparation and case release letter.

FM radio station to be set up by IIT K

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A FM radio station is to be started by The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), in the campus. This is for the first time an FM radio station is going to be operational from IIT campus. The FM station will broadcast scientific programmes and classical music. IIT-K has already received green signal for the project from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The FM station in IIT-K will operational following the model of America's National Public Radio (NPR).

Cultural programme will also air by the upcoming FM radio station at IIT-K. A four-member committee headed by Professor Sanjay Kasalkar, Registrar of the institute has been constituted to put the whole project into operation. The most important feature of the FM station will be the phone-in programme in which students from across the city can put their queries relating to science to the professors of the college.

Udaipur bags IIM and Jodhpur IIT

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In the end, politics won. Jaipur, which was perhaps the best location in the state for an IIT, has lost the premier institute to Jodhpur, the hometown of chief minister Ashok Gehlot. Earlier site selection panels had strongly recommended the Pink City for IIT

Launch of new MCAST degree courses

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Four MCAST institutes will see the introduction of degree programmes in art and design, ICT, electrical and electronics engineering, and business and commerce as the new MCAST prospectus for the scholastic year 2009/10 was launched, on Thursday. Students who have successfully completed their two-year Higher National Diploma courses may now progress to the vocational degrees. This year's courses will be followed by the introduction of further degree programmes in the remaining institutes within a two-year period. Throughout the last eight years, MCAST made considerable steps forward in post-secondary quality vocational education.

Principal CEO Professor, Maurice Grech attributed MCAST's success to the introduction of training initiatives which were not being met before the College was set up in 2001. The degrees initiative is an important development but one must emphasize that, as a vocational college of further and higher education, MCAST thrives on diversity. The institution's policy of inclusivity distinguish Malta's unique vocational institution and crucial in MCAST's stature and popularity. Basic education courses at the lower entry levels, are specifically designed to provide for the needs of those willing to embark on a 'second-chance' education. These learners may be the ones whose secondary education was a negative experience, having completed five compulsory schooling years with no formal qualifications. MCAST's learning support unit has been screening these applicants to ascertain their competence levels in key skills. It has been found that those who are most in need cannot be expected to achieve the prescribed school-leaving level within the existing one-year foundation framework. When appropriate, the college intends to extend the foundation course to address this situation.

Taiwan looks up to ICT, electronics

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The companies based in Taiwan, in the area of Information and Communication Technology and electronics, are looking upto Philippines for new investments and joint ventures, reported an official of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO). Taiwanese firms first met the local companies at the e-services and Global Sourcing Conference and Exhibition on February 8 and 9, on the setting up of new call centers, tie-ups in marketing software and e-commerce programs, software development, animation, and the propagation of smart card and other e-commerce technologies.

The Taiwanese firms which attended the conference and exhibition included TECO Smart Card Division, the main contractor of Taiwan's national health insurance IC card; Industrade, the exclusive agent and stock distributor in Taiwan for power electronics and thermal production equipment; Infomatics, an independent IT management consultancy firm specializing in IT services and information security management; Dewey International Educational Consultants Ltd., a licensed international educational organization that promotes overseas education in Taiwan; and Empyrean International Techno Devices Inc., a leading developer and distributor of GPS products.

Microsoft awarded innovative teachers in Nigeria

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For their outstanding contributions to education in Nigeria, 12 teachers who have found innovative ways to introduce information and communication technology (ICT) into the classroom as a learning aid, have been honoured at the second Nigerian Microsoft Innovative Teachers' Forum Awards, held in Abuja. Olalekan Adeeko of Remo Secondary School, Sagamu, Lagos, won the first prize for his project on eradicating Malaria. The project, which culminated in the students using technology to educate their peers on the causes, prevention and treatment of malaria; met the three major selection criteria of, community, collaboration and use of ICT.

During his presentation, Adeeko told the audience that the students who participated in the campaign were divided into groups with each assigned a particular area of data gathering. The students then created a PowerPoint as class work, which they took to their peers and other members of the community. Second prize went to Oboh Wellington of Government Secondary School, Gwarinpa, FCT, who presented a project on statistics, while Ms. Elizabeth Oyelola of Federal Government College, Ijanikin, Lagos, whose project centred on solar electricity supply as an alternative source of power, came third. They will represent Nigeria at the pan-African Innovative Education Forum taking place in Mauritius in September, where Africa's representatives at the worldwide Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum would emerge.

Cisco and Government of Rio de Janeiro pair-up to provide students with ICT knowledge

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The Cisco Networking Academy, in collaboration with the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro and the local Foundation of Support for Technical Schools (FAETEC) are helping create opportunities for 180 students from the community of Manguinhos by providing information technology (IT) skills to prepare them for entry-level IT positions in various fields.

The announcement was made following the opening ceremony of the Manguinhos CVT with Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral and Amos Maidantchik, Cisco Brazil's public sector manager. The opening of the CVT was also part of the Brazilian federal government's Growth Acceleration Program, which opened other infrastructure facilities in the community, with the presence of Brazilian President Luiz In

500,000 US$ award to Indian American professor

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Known for 'Unique Games Conjecture', the Indian-American computer scientist Subhash Khot received the prestigious National Science Foundation's (NSF) $500,000 Alan T. WatermanAward. Given to outstanding young researchers, annually, the award is given in any field of science and engineering supported by the NSF. The honour includes a grant of $500,000 over three years for scientific research or advanced study in any field of science.

An Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) graduate, Khot is associate professor at the New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He works in the area of 'Computational Complexity' which seeks to understand the power and limits if efficient computation. Khot has received an NSF Career Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship. Khot did his doctorate in computer science from Princeton University in 2003.

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