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Sports peoson find opening at Jamia

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Jamia Millia Islamia has invited applications for admission to its under-graduate and post-graduate non-professional courses for the coming academic year from sportspersons who have represented their State, university and region in different games. The sports admissions are exempted from the entrance test and are done on the basis of sports achievements and trials. Application forms can be collected from the office of games and sports on the Jamia campus on all working days between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. The last date for submission of forms is July 4. The final list of selected candidates will be displayed on the notice board of the office of games and sports on August 11 and on www.jmi.nic.in

Educational scheme Pendle to expand

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A Pioneering scheme which provides education and training to Pendle youngsters who are not in school looks set to expand. Since The Alternative School (TAS) was set up in Brierfield in 2007, it has provided hundreds of youngsters with access to learning. Now plans for a second base in the old Barnoldswick Town Council premises in Fernlea Avenue have been submitted to Pendle Council. Town hall chiefs are expected to make a decision on the blueprints to transform the office space to an education facility very soon. The new centre at The Old Library will offer an alternative Key Stage Four curriculum for children aged 14 to 16, who are not in mainstream education. Group manager Kirsty-Anne Pugh is anticipating that it will have 20 full-time places for local youngsters who fall into this category. She said that the young people who benefit from TAS have had low attendance at school for a number of different reasons. Pupils from years 10 and 11 often attend TAS to continue studying for GCSEs in literacy, numeracy and ICT.

Pugh said the aim was not only to help children with reading, writing, numeracy and ICT skills, but also to build self-esteem and confidence. She added, 'The whole idea behind setting up TAS was to avoid young people being out of work and out of education between 16 and 18. A lot of these kids have had a real negative experience at school. We don't want to put pressure on them, so we let them write their own timetables. By setting their own attendance times, we've had an average turnout of 90 to 100 %. Our aim is to mainly work on personal development and to let them take ownership and control of their own learning, therefore making their own choices about their future lives.' TAS is also involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards programme, which gets young people to develop practical and social skills, improve themselves through physical activity, volunteer their services to the community and undertake an expedition.

6 teams shortlisted at Srijan’10

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The Indus World School of Business (IWSB), Greater Noida, recently announced the 6 finalists of Srijan'10, a unique initiative aimed at harnessing India's entrepreneurial talent. Srijan, an initiative of IWSB provides a springboard to the numerous entrepreneurial ideas across the whole country. The school through its Incubation Centre envisages promoting the values of entrepreneurial leadership, with the aim to nurture, harness and bring the entrepreneurial ideas amongst its student community and also facilitate such opportunities in the country at large. The winning start-up ideas are currently in the process of being incubated at the incubation centre of entrepreneurship cell of the institute, known as CIEL (Centre for Inspiring Entrepreneurial Leadership). The participating ideas were brought in by teams from all over the country and were from across sectors like technology, environment, energy, business consultants, etc. The judging panel comprised of: Prakash Bagri (Head-Marketing, Intel), Anuj Sinha (Advisor & Head-NCSTC, Govt. of India), Pradeep Gupta (Chairman, Cybermedia Group), Sunita Singh (Sr. Director, NEN), Rahul Nanda (COO, Webchutney), Kapil Arora (Partner, Universal Legal), Satya Narayanan (Chairman, Career Launcher), Gautam Puri (Vice-Chairman, Career Launcher), Deepak Bansal (CEO & Founder, Clearpath Technology. All the participating teams were examined against parameters of feasibility, sustainability, scalability and many more. The teams that earned incubation for themselves include Green-O-Bin, 6 pi Consultants,Team Bharat, Advait Energy, Bio-Sol, and Shiv Shakti Enterprise.

Green-O-Bin provide end-to-end solution for paper waste management, consultancy to reduce the waste as well as complete paper recycling solutions to help organization understand Product Stewardship. Green-O-Bin aims 'Near to Zero Landfill' policy by providing source segregation and recycling services for waste paper. 6 pi Consultants aspires for Acting as intervening agents in the current education system- by improvising the inputs to learning, creating positively contributing human assets for the corporate and the society. Mobilizing a pool of skilled intellectual labour (working professionals) and creating synergies between the industry's requirement (demand) and the institutions' (supply). Assisting the corporate to reduce the learning curve for new hires and thereby maximise effectiveness and productivity of the workforce. Future planned developments include providing research and consulting services courtesy the dynamic pool of resources at disposal and the acquired student base over the years. Advait Energy is an 'Affordable Clean Energy' company that aims to provide clean energy solutions to customers at the bottom of the pyramid via a sustainable, for-profit approach. The company is addressing two challenges currently faced by the energy industry. Firstly, over 1.6 billion people in the world still lack access to electricity. Secondly, conventional methods of electricity generation have come at a great cost to the environment. Advait Energy offers solutions for distributed small-scale generation of electricity from renewable energy sources, with an emphasis on places where access to electricity is currently negligible or non-existent. The company is based in New Delhi and is currently focusing on providing solar power in rural parts of Northern India.

Pomegranate production has been suffering due to the 'oily spot disease'. The scientific community has failed to control the disease & recommended the government to stop fresh planting and go for a crop holiday for 10 years. After extensive research, they have successfully developed a formulation to tackle this problem. We intend to commercialise this product. Their services include support services, educational campaigns to guide farmers to improve productivity. Company is looking forward to expand its business to Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Shiv Shakti Enterprise is an innovation led electronics manufacturing company. 'Lifesaving finger ring' is one of their unique products. It's a security device which works through Mobile phone, finger ring & RFID technology. It's useful for disabled, elderly peoples, Police, Banks, vehicles, Petrol Pumps & various other purposes.

TERI, IGNOU to hold Digital Libraries Conference

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An international conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) 2010 will be jointly organised by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as part of IGNOU's Silver Jubilee Year celebrations. ICDL 2010 is proposed to be organized during February 23-26, 2010 in New Delhi. ICDL 2010 is the third conference in TERI's 'International Conference on Digital Libraries' series. The conference is to focus on web-based methodologies and the theme of the three-day conference is 'Digital Libraries: Shaping the Information Paradigm and the focus is on the strengths and potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development.'

In the event, IGNOU's participation is to support strengthening its arena of ICT, Web-based methodologies and digitisation for promoting seamless access to all. The speakers in the conference would include Prof. Michael Seadle, Director, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Prof. Dr Erich J Neuhold Professor, Computer Science, University of Vienna, Austria and Edie Rasmussen, Professor and Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

UGC prepares own list of varsities ranking

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Miffed that none or hardly any Indian institutes make it to international academic rankings like London Times Higher Education rankings or the Shanghai academic rankings, the University Grants Commission (UGC) plans to come out with its own system of ranking Indian universities vis a vis international ones. The idea was first proposed by the National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC) and the UGC has started discussions on how to formulate criteria for this ranking mechanism to be called the India Education Index. 'The point is that both the Times rankings and the Shanghai academic rankings are popular indexes to grade universities across the world. Very few Indian institutes are found in these rankings, more so in the Shanghai rankings. NAAC has complained that the criteria used by these rankings is biased which do not take into account social conditions and so project these institutes in a negative light,' said Sukhdeo Thorat, UGC Chairman. 'Accordingly, we have started discussions on formulating this index which will grade Indian varsities and international ones and give a comparison.'

The only Indian institutes that figure in the Top 200 of the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings survey for 2008 were IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai at 154 and 174 respectively in a list led by Harvard University. These two were also in the 2007 Times list as well. Nine Asian institutes were among the top 50, including three in Hong Kong. China has five universities in the top 200, Peking at 50 and Tsinghua at 56. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Seoul University are the two new entrants into the list this year.

One piece Apple Tablet computer out

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Wednesday morning saw introduction by Apple of the most anticipated one-piece-tablet computer, one of its kind machine. This one-piece computer with a touch screen will probably be larger than an iPhone but smaller than a laptop. While attention has been paid to its possibilities as a web-surfing, video-watching machine, a multi-purpose tablet also could help the publishing industry.

The tablet will run all music and video applications of the iPhone and iPod Touch, have a persistent wireless connection over 3G cellphone networks and Wi-Fi and a 10-inch colour display, allowing newspapers, magazines and book publishers to deliver products with an eye to design.

DU students union offer help to freshers

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As thousands of university aspirants flock to the campus for forms this admission season, the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) has a whole set of plans to make the new batch of 'fachchas', as freshers are popularly known, feel welcome. For students planning to buy new computers and laptops in the new academic session beginning July heavy discounts are available. DUSU is preparing a platform where students can purchase these gadgets cheap.

 

'DUSU is in talks with five IT companies including HCL and Dell. Soon we'll have a tie-up with the one that offers us the best deal. We will give the companies a ready market and the students will get a platform where they can buy computers at the most pocket friendly price,' told DUSU president Nupur Sharma. DUSU has set up information desks at all colleges where the common pre-admission forms are being sold. 'We have set up help desks at all these centres and our volunteers are helping out students and parents in filling the forms and guiding them as to where they should go and who they can speak to,' said Tejeswar, DUSU member. The DUSU volunteers are also handing out information regarding important dates for admissions and on paying guest accommodation. Another plus is that the DUSU volunteers are guiding freshers on career options apart from what DU offers.

Expect Fee hike by Private institutes from next session

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With the beginning of the new session in April, the schools of Delhi, after the Sixth Pay Commisision in September 2008, are again getting ready to hike fees. The management of most of these schools are likely to decide on the quantum of hike in March. The Directorate of Education (DoE), to look into the matter of fee hike has accepted the recommendations of the Bansal Committee formed in October 2008 by the Delhi government. According to the DoE directions last year on February 11, the parents had to shell out INR 500 as the hike in tuition fees in addition to a maximum of INR 4500 as arrears in two to three installments. Though the matter now stands sub-judice.

Individuals with special needs to acquire ICT equipment

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General Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director, Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka told that an opportunity to use technology should be given to those with special needs. Technology is essential to understand world trends and people who are differently-abled should not be discriminated against when it comes to accessing technology.

LKR 8.5 million wroth of ICT equipment was handed over to to schools, vocational training centres, Ranaviru Villages and Universities for persons with special needs under the International Telecommunication Union and Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Sri Lanka project program with the theme information communication technologies for dis-empowered and marginalized communities, in a ceremony. Computer tables and chairs, multimedia projections, Braille software, FM hearing equipment for hearing impaired children, photocopy machines were provided for 69 centers including two universities, 33 schools, 17 vocational training centres and 17 Ranaviru villages.

Commitment to women empowerment reaffirmed by Government

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President John Evans Atta Mills has reaffirmed Government's commitment towards women empowerment in the country, for which application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for knowledge at the work place and home is vital. President Atta Mills made the affirmation in a speech read on his behalf at the second congregation of Saint Theresa's College of Education at Hohoe at the weekend.It was under the theme, 'ICT in Teacher Education – Role of the Female Teacher.'

A total of 148 students graduated with Diploma in Basic Education awarded by Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast (UCC). Four students had second class upper division, 36 had second class lower division, 84 had third class division and 18 had a pass. President Atta Mills urged students especially women to be proactive in the usage and application of ICT because available statistics indicated that most women had no interest in computers. He announced that Government in collaboration with the Ministry of Education had an Internet portal for the teaching and learning of Mathematics and Science for Junior High Schools and urged management of Colleges of Education and students to download the material for their study. President Atta Mills said Government's determination to provide a holistic education was on course and liaising with major development partners and stakeholders to improve teaching, learning, residential facilities and enhanced remuneration for all categories of workers under the education sector. He paid glowing tribute to the founding fathers for establishing the College and urged the graduands to be steadfast and worthy ambassadors in their chosen profession to affect society positively.

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