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Vel Tech to offer scholarships worth INR 5 crore

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The Vel Tech Dr. RR & Dr. SR Technical University will offer scholarships of more than INR 5 crore to the meritorious students all over India, under the 'Mahatma Gandhi scholarship scheme' this year. The first three, plus two toppers from each State applying for engineering at Vel Tech will be eligible for fully paid scholarships. One topper from each Union Territory (UT) will also get the scholarship.

'The top three students will get complete exclusion despite of any other aspects,' says Rangaranjan Mahalakshmi, Vice- Chancellor. Seventy-Eight scholarships will be awarded to students regardless of their financial ability or the courses they choose. Apart from these scholarships, additional 100 students will be receiving scholarships with a 50% waiver of their fees provided they score 90% average in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics examinations. The application forms should be submitted by April 30 to avail the scholarships and all the students should appear for the Vel Tech All India Engineering Entrance Examination on May 10. 'Vel Tech aims at providing leading engineering and management courses for the most deserving and promising candidates, through these scholarship schemes. Although the main criteria to avail these scholarships are that the student should apply to the main university at Avadi and not to any of the other institutes affiliated to Anna University, MGR Medical University or the University of Madras,' said Mahalakshmi.

Cambridge University Press plans an Indian foray

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The world's oldest printing and publishing house, Cambridge University Press, has acquired a 51 per cent equity stake in the New Delhi-based Foundation Books Private Limited and its divisions, Foundation Media and Foundation e-Learning.

Committed to the South Asian market, Cambridge University Press acclaimed for its list of journals, textbooks, monographs and guides in various subjects including medicine, law and literature aims to make considerable investment in technology and services.

According to Cambridge University Press Chief Executive Stephen Bourne, “India has very high standards of education and also a number of colleges and universities. Every year 20,000 new books are published in your country. This is an attractive proposition for us and we want a piece of this huge market. We plan to publish affordable books here. Our global strategy is to publish books locally at affordable prices. Moreover, the books printed here would be exported to Arab and African countries.” Bourne again said: “These days more and more books are also being published online. In fact, technology is creeping into the book publishing industry. Of the 200 journals we publish, 95 per cent are online. We will publish books online here too.”

A department of Cambridge University, Cambridge University Press publishes nearly 2,500 books and over 200 journals every year that are sold in more than 200 countries.

India’s 1st Mock Entrance Test by Merit Trac

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MeritTrac Services has announced the launch of 1score, India's first unified mock entrance test. This test claims to help students in evaluating their preparedness for various engineering entrance examinations by taking one common test. The students get a comparative analysis of how they would perform on various leading engineering entrance examinations, including IIT-JEE, AIEEE, CET, EAMCET, BITSAT, Manipal UGET, etc. Edurite Technologies is the academic partner for this test and provides the test design know-how for this program.

1score evaluates students on Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, and creates a readiness index on the student's preparedness to face various engineering entrance examinations. The students are given a feel of new exam procedures like online applications, OMR answer sheets, etc. A detailed report and analysis of how the candidate has performed in 1score is shared along with constructive inputs on topics of strength and areas of improvement. 1score also provides a topic-wise readiness report for each subject. The 1score test is scheduled on March 29 in Bangalore, Bijapur, Gulburga, Hubli, Mangalore, Shimoga, Bijapur, Mysore, and Hyderabad. Interested students can visit www.merittrac.com/1score to understand the registration details for this test. Registration for the test is being handled at all the Edurite Tutorials centers and COMAT computer centers across Karnataka. The examination fee for 1score is Rs. 350.

IT centres in 6000 SriLankan schools by next year

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The Government of SriLanka is planning to provide IT centres for 6,000 schools next year.  IT education is essential in building a knowledge economy and the Government's objective is to provide IT centres for 6000 schools by next year.  The role of IT in education is essential in building a knowledge economy and the Government's objective is to provide IT centres for 6,000 schools by next year. 3500 IT laboratories have already been provided by the Education Ministry. He said that a knowledge based society is needed to radically reform conventional schools and the education system that supplied the labour force of the industrial age. Adoption of ICT in education is the most important driving force and the basis to enable educational reforms.


The Government of SriLanka has also initiated a project to provide 1,000 IT centres run by solar power for rural schools that do not have access to electricity. Microsoft Sri Lanka's Country Manager, Sriyan De Silva Wijeratne said that Microsoft supports the Government's vision to put Sri Lanka on the global IT map, whilst also realising its long term objective of providing skills amongst youth to meet the local and global demands. Microsoft believes in transforming education through the use of advanced technology, customized training and strong partnerships by exploring solutions in three interconnected areas, building vibrant educational communities and agile infrastructure in the country. The Year 2009 has been declared as the 'Year of English and IT' by the government of SriLanka.


CBSE to start accreditation of schools

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Setting benchmarks for schools, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will for the first time give accreditation to 
institutions affiliated to it on the basis of quality of education. The country's premier school examination board has decided to launch the initiative, the first by any board in the country, before commencement of the next academic session. 'The governing body has decided to start accreditation of the schools for the first time from this year. The purpose is to set benchmark for quality assurance among the schools in the country, said the CBSE chairman Vineeth Joshi.

A committee has been set up by the CBSE to frame guidelines for assessment and accreditation. The committee will also suggest detailed modalities on formation of separate committees for the purpose of accreditation. 'The basic focus of the assessment would be finding out the quality of education, teacher-pupil ratio, mode of teaching, students' participation in the teaching-learning process and library among other things,' said Joshi. The infrastructure facilities in the schools will be part of assessment and accreditation procedure, he said. The accredited schools will be provided grades which will indicate their standing with respect to quality. The CBSE will also launch a sensitisation drive during which it will reach out to the schools and make them aware about the benefits of being accredited. The drive will cover about 10,000 schools in the country, he said. The CBSE's effort assumes significance in view of quality becoming top priority in education with the entry of foreign players in this sector. A number of international schools have come up in the country which are affiliated to foreign boards like IB and Cambridge Systems. At present, accreditation and assessment are done in colleges and universities. The government has decided to make accreditation and assessment mandatory requirements for making them eligible for getting grants.


 

68% students says yes to sex education

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Regardless of political opposition to sex education, about 68% of boys and girls in schools want adolescence education, revealed a study to be released today. The students however wanted sex education from someone other than their class teacher, according to the study conducted by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education. The study was carried out in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and in a few slums of Bangalore. Based on sex education imparted in schools in the last five years, it found that students were not comfortable asking their class-teachers sensitive questions about sex. In schools where adolescence education was delivered, about 91% students in urban areas and 95 per cent in rural areas said the decision to have a baby should be made by both partners in a marriage.

A significant number of girls who had been through the programme said they would decline to have sex without a condom and oppose sexual abuse. It was also found that the number of girls are coming forward to obtain knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases increased from 27.9% in 2003 to 42.3 % in 2008. Class 10 students, the survey said, who had been through the curriculum, were able to reject common misconceptions about masturbation and HIV. But class 11 students, who had not studied sex education failed to do so. Girls in class 10 were able to understand that the contraceptive pill did not protect them from sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.

Pitroda: India must initiate structural educational reforms

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India has to initiate 'structural reforms' in the educational system if it wants to reap the benefits of its 'demographic dividend,' National Knowledge Commission (NKC) Chairman Sam Pitroda said here on Thursday. The demographic dividend denotes a rise in economic growth due to an increasing share of working people in population. Speaking to reporters after a seminar on on 'Roadmap for Reform: NKC Recommendations', Pitroda said if reforms were not initiated to meet the challenges of the knowledge economy, demographic dividend would become a 'demographic nightmare.'

According to him, reforms were necessary in five core areas – access to knowledge, concepts, creation, applications and services. 'Today education has become indispensable to the country's ambitions in the knowledge economy and therefore there is a need to develop a new knowledge paradigm, simultaneously addressing concerns of disparity and inclusion,' said Pitroda. The seminar was was jointly organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and NKC as part of the commission's outreach programme. On the occasion, Pitroda released NKC's 'Report to the Nation', a compilation of the over 300 recommendations it has made to the government.

Rajasthan project wins UNESCO literacy prize

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Rajasthan's Directorate of Literacy and Continuing Education has been awarded the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO's) Confucius Literacy Prize for 2006 for its Useful Learning through Literacy and Continuing Education Programme in one of India's poorest and largest states.

The Rajasthan project was one of two winners of the US$ 20,000 Confucius prize, the other being Ministry of National Education, a national literacy initiative designed specifically for marginalised adolescents in rural areas. The UNESCO prizes are awarded annually in recognition of particularly effective contributions to the fight against illiteracy, one of UNESCO's priorities. The National Commission for Human Development of Pakistan won the US$ 20,000 International Reading Association Literacy Prize for a national programme that provides literacy classes to adults and out-of-school children, collects data through door-to-door surveys and encourages community involvement in the enrolment of children in schools. The winners will receive their prizes from UNESCO on International Literacy Day, September 8.

Drive for grooming more IT talent in India

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The study conducted  by NASSCOM and KPMG, shows that there would be dearth of IT talent by the year 2010, in the country. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The estimation comes more than 2.35 lakh jobs in IT and ITES sectors  that may go weird for lack properly trained personnel. Human Resources executives and educational institution representatives discussed the issue in detail at the `HR Summit' organised by NASSCOM on `Profile of the emerging IT-ITES workforce: shaping the talent pool' in Chennai recently. The key factor emerged in the summit was not the `number of students', but the `average suitability of students for the market'. As a solution, it was highlighted on the relevance of 'softskills' which is important for the students to know how to behave in a cross-cultural work environment. That is the present and the future of IT sector. On contrary, it was also perceived that, certain jobs would require less of communication skills and 'more of coding'. It is better to work on one's strengths and  the upcoming graduates should be groomed to face the situation.

AMA Education Group to replace financial system with Oracle E-Business Suite

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The AMA Education Group (AMA), the pioneering and largest ICT university in Asia, has decided to replace its outdated financial system with Oracle E-Business Suite. AMA faced challenges as its corporate growth and restructuring activities rendered their present financial system unable to cope with new demands and requirements. The current system was also unable to provide reliable support, and made it difficult for AMA to upgrade or re-implement other applications or technology.

AMA needed an enterprise system that could grow when rolled out across the company's diversified interests. Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive, industry-focused suite of business applications for the enterprise. It is an integrated and scalable solution that can be rapidly implemented. The entire AMA education system will implement a centralized, financial system through a 'shared services' environment that utilizes the Financial Shared Services capabilities of Oracle E-Business Suite, along with Purchasing and Inventory modules. Adopting the shared services delivery method, AMA also expects to benefit from the other capabilities of Oracle E-Business Suite to achieve significant cost savings, generate accurate financial reports, access timely and consistent information, provide better customer service, and provide a consolidated end-to-end view of AMA's diverse lines of business. After a successful implementation of the Financial System, a roll-out into a shared service model for AMA's franchisees is also expected to take place. AMA has chosen to implement the applications solutions through distributor Active Business Solutions, Inc.

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