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Students take pledge to work for the nation in Chandigarh

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Students of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 33, Chandigarh, took a pledge on Tuesday to uphold the integrity of the nation and work for their motherland. They also wrote personal postcards of acknowledgement and appreciation for soldiers guarding the country's borders. On the second day of 'Project V-Care-Saluting the soldiers', the function was jointly organised by Yuvsatta, Indian Oil Corporation and Peace Club of the school. Gandhian activist Hira Lal Yadav, who is working for the cause of raising awareness about Indian soldiers languishing in jails of Pakistan as prisoners of war, was the chief guest on the occasion.

Volunteers of Yuvsatta with the support of various educational institutions in Chandigarh and Panchkula, are spearheading a campaign motivating children to pen letters to soldiers under the Western Command posted on the Indo-Pak border. Administering a 'Pledge of patriotism' to students and staff of the school, Dr. Surendra Singh said that such programmes are necessary to inculcate feelings of oneness and love for the nation among young students.

As economic slowdown bites, IIM grads settle for lower start-ups

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Start-up companies are hoping to get some of these graduates on board by shelling out salaries in the region of INR 15 lakh per annum. The number of start-ups visiting IIM campuses this year has doubled and there has been a marked increase in the number of students willing to consider them. Bangalore-based start-up MxV, a strategy and management consulting firm founded by former executives at Mckinsey and BCG, have recruited from IIM-Kozhikode. According to sources, start-ups at IIM-K , which has a batch size of 185, are paying between INR 10 lakh and INR15 lakh per annum. The scene is similar at Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, where 10 start-ups are hiring and students are in talks with 10-15 other firms. At ISB, start-ups have so far hired 44 students, which is 10% of the 440 students who have sat for placements. 'I got around Rs 12 lakh a year. What more can I expect now? I am happy working for a new company,' says 26-year-old ISB student, who did not want to be named. At IIM-Lucknow , which will finish its placement on Monday, nearly 10 start-ups are hiring graduates from a class of 267.

This year, six start-ups have hired from IIM-Bangalore for sales, marketing and, strategy roles. These include ADPS, Insta Health Solutions, Ecologics, ScanCafe and iRunway and EVI who have hired nearly 10 students, constituting 4% of the batch of 249. Seven IIM-B students are starting their own ventures. Among them is 26 -year-old Shobhit Shukla, who has started flowersinstead.com, an online flower retailing venture. 'I wanted to do something on my own. There is a high demand for flowers and it is a new concept in Bangalore,' says Shukla, a former software engineer who also plans to start an event management company. Online bus tickets booking service provider redbus.in is also making a debut at IIMs looking for graduates for positions in analytics and finance.

Ministry of Education Endorses ICT Standard for Students at Taiwan

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The globally recognized digital literacy certification program is included as part of a five-year plan in which the MOE will require all technical and vocational students, more than 1 million, to achieve at least one internationally accepted credential by graduation. IC

Microsoft appoints graduates for school’s IT Projects in Ireland

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Microsoft will recruit technology teachers to help develop digital material for the school curriculum in Ireland. The graduates, who will be based in Microsoft Ireland headquarters in Dublin, will work with the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) seek to find ways of integrating information communications technology into teaching and learning.

These graduates will be employed to help find new ways of intergrating ICT into learning, under the Government's graduate back-to-work programme which allows them to retain their social welfare entitlements. The graduate training places are among a number of key elements in the 'education alliance' agreed between Microsoft Ireland and the Department of Education and Science.

The education alliance agreement will also bring extra benefits to schools using Microsoft products under a yearly licensing agreement. The yearly licensing agreement allows schools to acquire a perpetual licence by paying a once-off amount for Microsoft products on their existing computers and for any new Microsoft products bought for new computers. As a result of Microsoft's investment in the programme, the once-off perpetual licence fee will be offered at a discounted rate to the schools.

Microsoft will also provide access to a range of online and digital resources including, The Learning Suite (including Office 2007) which has several titles of educational value to primary and post-primary schools. Paul Rellis, Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland, said: “The Government has demonstrated its commitment to integrating ICT into teaching and learning with the announcement of the

Queensland

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Queensland's Sheldon College has outsourced its entire data and communications network to provide staff and students with around the clock access to resources and online learning tools.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

The school has 180-plus staff and 1600 students using the network and work is underway for an IP telephony network delivered over a wireless mesh solution. The network, which has been outsourced to privately owned system integrator TTGroup Communications, is based on Nortel technology. TTGroup Communications CEO Bob Bishop said until a few years ago Sheldon College had a typical school network made up of a haphazard mix of PCs, servers, laptops, limited connectivity and no single standardised operating platform. He said it was a network that grew organically and was managed reactively, but still served its purpose on a day-to-day operational basis. The project is one of the first by an Australian school to be completely outsourced to a third-party supplier covering the network's tender, design, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

Bold plan to reshape higher education in Australia

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Australia's 38 public universities face an upheaval on a scale they have not experienced in 20 years under bold new government plans. The main goal in a set of wholesale reforms to the nation's higher education system is the government's intention to boost the number of Australians aged 25 to 34 with bachelor degrees from 32% of the population to 40% over the next 15 years – an enormous challenge given it would mean producing an additional 550,000 graduates by 2025 – and perhaps require more than 20 new universities. Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard announced some of the reforms last Wednesday in an address to a conference organised by the vice-chancellors organisation, Universities Australia. In the first of a series of three speeches she intends to make, Gillard set out the government's initial responses to recommendations arising from a review of higher education she commissioned after the Labor government was elected in November 2007. The review was headed by Professor Denise Bradley, former vice-chancellor of the University of South Australia, and her report was released last December. Gillard welcomed the review at the time and has now promised to begin implementing some of its radical recommendations.

'In an era when investment in knowledge and skills promises to be the ultimate determinant of national and individual prosperity, Australia is losing ground against our competitors,' said Gillard said. 'National participation and attainment in higher education is too low. We are losing touch with the OECD's leaders in higher education: between 1996 and 2006, we slipped from seventh in the OECD in terms of attainment among 25-34 year olds to ninth.' Other comparable nations had exacting targets for participation in recent years,' said Gillard. Germany had set its target at 40%, Sweden and the UK at 50% while the Irish were aiming at 72%. She said that in Australia, too few young people from disadvantaged backgrounds were enrolling in higher education while completion rates, estimated by the Bradley review to be less than three in every four students who started at university, were unacceptably low.

GSIS partners with STI to offer educational assistance

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The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has tied-up with STI, a leading provider of ICT and ICT-enhanced education in the country, to make schooling more affordable for GSIS members, their dependents, and pensioners. With the partnership in place, dependents within the 6th civil degree of affinity and/or consanguinity of any GSIS member or pensioner, who are incoming freshmen this school-year, will enjoy a 20 % scholarship grant in tuition and laboratory fees if they enroll in any STI campus nationwide. GSIS members can avail of the same benefit. To avail of the partial scholarship grant, GSIS members or pensioners and their qualified dependents need to present to STI the GSIS eCard Plus, subject to verification.

The eCard Plus, a pioneer service introduced by the GSIS, is a multi-purpose utility card issued to all of its members and pensioners to improve the facilitation of loans, pension, and claims proceeds. The card serves as an identification, ATM, debit, and discount card. It also serves as a savings account at Union Bank, among others. GSIS members and qualified dependents can continue to benefit from the 20 % scholarship grant in the succeeding semesters until they have graduated from their chosen field, provided that they continue to meet the required standards and qualifications of the STI Scholarship Guidelines. STI scholars are required to maintain a General Weighted Average (GWA) of at least 2.25 or its equivalent of 83 % to 85 % with no grades lower than 2.5. In addition, scholars should not obtain a failing grade or absence without official leave (AWOL) in any subject; must not be dismissed, warned or held on probation due to scholastic delinquency; should not have any disciplinary offense, and must take a full load course for each semester as prescribed in the STI curriculum, excluding the National Service Training Program. STI has a network of more than 100 campuses nationwide with academic programs in ICT, Business and Management, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Engineering and Healthcare.

One’s own reading room

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Around 30 people huddle over large wooden tables in a dimly lit hall near crumbling Golcha Cinema in the heart of old Delhi. The tables are draped with newspapers. In a corner is a small rack weighed down by dozens of magazines in Hindi and English. Despite the whir of the three vintage fans suspended from the high ceiling and the ever-present hum of traffic outside, this is a peaceful place. The kind of place meant for reading. Welcome to the reading room run by the Hardayal Municipal Public Library. The room, which does not require membership, is popular with an assortment of people: students, teachers, office-goers and senior citizens, many of regulars. 'I have been coming here for the past 30 years to read newspapers,' says 72-year-old R.S. Gupta, a retired Delhi University Professor. 'I give private tuitions to students in the area. Here I catch up on the news of the day in between tuitions.' Rajendra Kumar Buta, who works in the Ministry of Railways is here daily by 6 pm and is often the last to leave at closing time at 8 pm.

The reading room stays packed throughout the day. 'About 150 people visit each day,' says Shamshad a staff member. 'There are always more people than we can accommodate.' The reading rooms are particularly popular with students who do not have the necessary space to study at home. What attract them in hordes here is the peaceful environment, proximity to home and the freedom to come and read without any membership. They can even bring their own books and food. On an average about 100 people visit each reading room in community centers, which are open from 8 am to 8 pm. Another such reading room at the Hauz Khas community center is quite popular with office- goers.

Cisco and the Government of Portugal team up for schools project

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Cisco has been selected as a technology partner in the government of Portugal's Technological Plan for Education, which aims to bring information and communication technology (ICT) literacy to students and promote the use of new technologies in the educational system. Cisco

Revision in age to begin with schooling to help summer-born children

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All children will have the option of a school place or free nursery care from the September after their fourth birthday under the biggest shake-up of primary education in 20 years, said the schools secretary Ed Balls. The move will give parents of summer-born babies up to two extra terms of schooling to counter the educational penalty of their birth date. The recommendation is contained in a wide-ranging review of the primary curriculum, published today by the former Ofsted chief Sir Jim Rose. It recommends scrapping the current curriculum and replacing it with a slimmed-down version designed to give schools more flexibility over what they teach. Balls immediately accepted the review's findings and said the new curriculum would be introduced in September 2011. The new curriculum entails mention of elevating ICT learning, introducing focus on speaking skills, emphasizing on learning based on play, teaching children to be happy and healthy and scrapping the 11 standalone subjects.

The change in school starting age, from the term before a child's fifth birthday to the September after their fourth, will be a major reform of the system designed to counter the educational deficit summer-born babies face. Research has shown they get lower grades at GCSE and are even less likely to go on to university. In a letter to Roseaccepting the recommendation, Balls said parents should have the option of 25 hours of free childcare to cater for those who have a 'strong preference' for their child's early education to happen outside of a formal school setting. The review acknowledges the controversy of proposing an earlier starting date among parents who fear their four-year-olds may not be ready for formal learning. Academic evidence is divided over whether starting school earlier or later is the best option for children. Rose revealed research showing that 94 out of 150 local authorities already operate the system of having a single entry point in September every year. Balls said, 'The new primary curriculum will slim down the existing compulsory national curriculum subjects into six new areas of learning that ensure that all children learn core subjects like history and geography but also about their personal development.'

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